Norwegian shipping company Siem Offshore has entered into a contract with marine geophysical service provider PXGEO for the charter of an offshore subsea construction vessel (OSCV). The OSCV Siem Spearfish will be engaged within the marine geophysical segment and support the charterer’s operations w
Scottish well intervention and plug and abandonment (P&A) solutions provider Oilenco has won a contract to deliver engineering and manufacturing services for what it says is a “major North Sea operator”. The contract will see Oilenco provide well intervention and downhole equipment throughout a 52-w
Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has awarded Norway’s Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) with a contract worth approximately $11.7 million to deliver a multi-client survey offshore Brazil. The contract represents EMGS’ first acquisition project offshore Brazil in almost ten years. T
Paris-based company CGG has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries of Trinidad and Tobago to update 3D seismic data from deepwater blocks off the coast of Trinidad. CGG will deliver improved images of seismic data from deepwater blocks 25a, 25b, 26, and 27 in the east
Norway’s Solstad Offshore has placed an order with compatriot Omega Subsea Robotics for the delivery of six additional remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems that will be integrated onboard its selected vessels this year. With six ROV systems already in place, this order doubles Solstad and Omega S
Fugro has expanded its uncrewed surface vessel (USV) fleet with the addition of a new Blue Essence vessel which has received the highest level of UK coastguard approval. Fugro Vaquita has joined Fugro’s 12-meter Blue Essence USV fleet and has earned Category 0 approval from the UK Maritime Coastguar
UK-based Rovco has added a second hull-mounted survey vessel to its fleet, a move said to come in response to client demand for geophysical and geotechnical survey solutions. Rovco has entered into a four-year charter agreement with Glomar for the DP2 vessel Glomar Worker. “We are delighted with our
UTEC, a geo-services brand in Acteon’s Data and Robotics division, has been awarded a contract by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) to provide subsea balance of plant operations and maintenance (O&M) services to the German Butendiek offshore wind farm. Under the three-year contract, Acteon will
A French consortium comprising three partners has secured a €3 million grant to develop and qualify subsea resident patrol technologies. The consortium is made of Ifremer, a French research institute dedicated to the ocean, FinX, a start-up specialized in bio-inspired underwater thrusters, and led b
Argeo’s subsea vessel Argeo Searcher has completed a job in Nigeria for Shell and is now set to mobilize for work in the Indian Ocean. In its most recent vessel schedule, Argeo reported that its backlog update was currently running at around NOK 550 million (over $52.3 million), with a further sales
Ulstein Verft has completed the conversion of a 2015-built platform supply vessel (PSV) into a geotechnical survey vessel for Fugro, representing one out of two vessel transformation tasks it has on its to-do list. Ulstein Verft finished the conversion of the Fugro Resilience at the end of 2023, on
Another vessel is set to join N-Sea Group’s fleet as the company has chartered a 2016-built offshore support vessel for IRM, survey, UXO and cable operations. N-Sea has entered into an agreement with Rederij Groen to long-term charter the modern offshore support vessel Aquarius-G. With its length of
Norwegian subsea services provider DeepOcean and oil and gas player Aker BP have completed subsea trials with an autonomous inspection drone (AID) at an Aker BP-operated field in the central North Sea. As part of a ten-day inspection campaign, Aker BP and DeepOcean inspected subsea trees and other s
Denmark-based power cable manufacturer and installation company NKT has placed an order with Norway’s VARD for the construction of its new cable-laying vessel (CLV). In May 2023, on the back of a record order backlog and the strong market outlook, NKT announced investments in a new high-voltage fact
