Norwegian vessel owner DOF Group has secured multiple new contract awards that will see another three of its vessels working for Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras. Anchor handling tug and supply (AHTS) vessels Skandi Jupiter and Skandi Mercury, under management contracts with DOF, have been cont
Community Offshore Wind, a joint venture between RWE and National Grid Ventures, has selected Fugro to perform a geotechnical investigation of their lease area in the New York Bight. With 3 GW of offshore wind energy potential, the developed lease area could power more than one million homes in the
Following the merger with compatriot PGS, Norwegian seismic company TGS is looking at a busy period ahead with two new contracts, one in Europe and one in North America, for offshore data acquisition. TGS secured a 45-day ultra-high resolution 3D (UHR3D) acquisition contract in Europe for an offshor
Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München have awarded Dutch company Bluestream Offshore, an OEG Renewables business, a contract for a remedial campaign on the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. Bluestream will provide specialist subsea and topside services for the remedial ca
Irish transmission system operator (TSO) EirGrid has awarded a multi-party framework agreement for surveys that the TSO will perform at the offshore wind area(s) the Irish government will put up for tender next. The companies that secured long-term contracts, valued at €300 million in total, are Fug
Allseas has completed the removal of the fourth and final platform from Shell’s Brent field in the UK’s North Sea as part of a decommissioning project that took over a decade to conclude. The Brent oil and gas field, located northeast of the Shetland Islands, was one of the largest fields in the Nor
Australian companies Geo Oceans, part of Vertech Group, and Blue Ocean Marine Services have merged, combining Geo Oceans’ small ROV, subsea inspection, and marine science technologies with Blue Ocean’s expertise in unmanned and remotely operated survey technologies. “We are excited about this merger
Vattenfall and Metsähallitus have awarded GEOxyz and Arctia contracts to provide geophysical surveys for the Korsnäs offshore wind farm in Finland. Vattenfall became a Metsähallitus project partner for the Korsnäs offshore wind farm in December 2022. The surveys involve mapping a 280 square-kilomete
Scotland-headquartered Sulmara has completed a site characterization survey for the Formosa 4 offshore wind project in Taiwan, developed by Synera Renewable Energy (SRE). To overcome challenging environmental site conditions, Sulmara said it employed an industry-first, multi-platform approach runnin
Dutch provider of offshore floating facilities SBM Offshore and Norwegian energy solutions development company Ocean-Power have signed a partnership agreement to collaborate on a floating power generation hub with CO2 capture and storage. With the signature of a memorandum of understanding (MoU), th
Enefit Green, a renewable energy developer based in Estonia, has issued a call for tenders for geotechnical surveys at the project site of its Liivi offshore wind farm, located ten kilometers off the island of Kihnu in the Estonian part of the Gulf of Riga. The call was published on July 8 with the
Norwegian Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has secured what it says is its first seismic node project, as part of its strategy to diversify its offerings and enhance vessel utilization. EMGS is set to undertake a fully pre-funded ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey in the Barents Sea in collabo
RWE has kicked off geophysical and geotechnical site investigations at the Norfolk Boreas, Norfolk Vanguard East, and Norfolk Vanguard West offshore wind project sites in the UK, rights to which the German company acquired from Vattenfall earlier this year. The survey vessel Braveheart Spirit is con
Norwegian VARD has held the steel cutting ceremony for the highly customized hybrid power cable lay and construction vessel it is building for the Japanese offshore wind market. The steel-cutting ceremony for NB 980 was held on July 1 in Vard Shipyards Romania – Braila, marking a milestone in the co
