Norwegian maritime group Wilhelmsen has acquired a 21% stake in the compatriot subsea contractor Reach Subsea to position itself in the renewable value chain and explore the remote subsea concept.
Australian marine and subsea services provider MMA Offshore has launched the Offshore Hydrographic Surveying Scholarship program as part of its support to the surveying industry development.
Fugro has won a contract by Ørsted to carry out geotechnical site investigations at the Hornsea Three and Hornsea Four offshore wind projects in the UK. The site investigations will include downhole cone penetration testing (CPT), seismic cone penetration testing (SCPT), downhole sampling and high-q
Reach Subsea has won a contract to perform an ocean bottom node (OBN) campaign in the Mediterranean Sea for an undisclosed client. The activities will be performed by the Havila Subsea spread, with start-up expected early in Q2 2022, representing around 130 project days. Reach Subsea extended the co
Helix Energy Solutions has secured a long-term field decommissioning contract with Trident Energy for the Pampo and Enchova clusters in the Campos Basin, Brazil. Helix will provide a riser-based well intervention vessel, either Siem Helix 1 or Siem Helix 2, a 10k Intervention Riser System, project m
Sonardyne has launched a wireless underwater initiation capacity with the aim of improving the safety and efficiency of unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance during offshore energy projects. The Initiation Transponder 6 (IT 6) is designed to be connected directly to a remotely deployed, non-electric m
Singapore-based Tasik Subsea has secured a five-year charter with Shelf Subsea Services for its subsea operation vessel Southern Star. Southern Star just recently completed a docking and survey at Keppel Shipyard and will go on a five-year bareboat charter to Australia’s Shelf Subsea. The DP3 vessel
Gazprom Neft, a unit of Russian gas giant Gazprom, has completed seismic surveys at the Yuzhno-Obsky license block located in the waters of the Gulf of Ob in the Kara Sea. The goal of the seismic surveying, which included six vessels equipped to work at ultra-shallow depths of less than seven meters
Offshore cable solutions provider Oceanteam has completed the demobilization of the 4,000-ton carousel from onboard the 128-meter long cable-laying vessel (CLV) Normand Clipper. According to the company, the operation was completed in less than a half-day and with the assistance of Bonn & Mees Drijv
The 87-meter long TEK Ocean Spirit has commenced what is described as the largest subsea engineering survey at the site of the Marinus Link interconnector in Australia. The 32 expert crew aboard the survey vessel left from the Port of Burnie on 11 February and will take four to six weeks to survey t
Aberdeen-headquartered Boskalis Subsea Services has opened a new regional project office at the Port of Sunderland. Boskalis Subsea Services said it will use the base to expand the presence of its business vessel operations in the UK, as it looks to cater for growing demand for its offshore, IRM, co
Hydrographic and geophysical surveys are set to start on the proposed Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon Extension offshore wind projects in March. The vessel Ocean Research is expected to begin the work around 1 March offshore the North Norfolk coast. Activities will continue for an estimated 120 days, e
TGS has commenced an extensive 2D-cubed seismic reprocessing project off the east coast of India in support of the country’s license round schedule. The project includes over 250,000-line kilometers of existing 2D data across an area of over half a million square kilometers. This new dataset offers
Norway’s Reach Subsea has reported 2021 as the best financial year in company history. This is said to be driven by high vessel utilization and project execution, as well as the purchase of OCTIO. In its latest financial report, Reach Subsea stated it also had its best-ever fourth quarter which saw
