Fugro has finished fieldwork on a geophysical, geotechnical, and environmental site investigation contract for RWE Renewables’ Dogger Bank South (DBS) offshore wind farm and export cable routes. The array area covers approximately 1,000 square kilometres with over 100 kilometres of proposed export c
TotalEnergies E&P UK has awarded px Group with a long-term multi-year contract to operate the SEAL gas pipeline in the North Sea. The SEAL pipeline transports sales quality gas from the Elgin Franklin platform in the Central Graben Area of the North Sea to the dedicated module at the Bacton gas term
Marine geophysical service provider PXGEO has completed a five-month ocean bottom node (OBN) project in the North Sea. “Operating in a high production simultaneous triple ROV mode, the project was successfully executed around subsea and surface infrastructure with industry-leading safety, environmen
Norway’s Reach Subsea has secured a “larger” contract as well as several contract extensions that encompass projects in Trinidad and Tobago and Northern Europe. According to Reach Subsea, the contracts are an indication of good development in terms of utilization of its resources for Q4 2022 and int
Oceaneering’s Subsea Robotics segment has won multiple contracts in the third quarter of 2022 with anticipated aggregate revenue of $300 million. The contracts are primarily for remotely operated vehicle (ROV) services delivered from floating drilling rigs and vessels for subsea equipment support, s
Metsähallitus, Finalnd’s administrator of state-owned land and water areas, will soon wrap up surveys of underwater flora and fauna off the coast of Korsnäs, which are part of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a gigawatt-scale offshore wind farm. The work, being performed by the Finnish
Blyth-headquartered seabed intervention and subsea robotics services company Pharos Offshore has secured a £7.8 million funding package from ThinCats to facilitate the purchase of new assets. The funding package is set to allow Pharos to source additional work-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)
A geotechnical site investigation campaign is set to begin at the proposed North Irish Sea Array (NISA) wind farm area offshore Ireland. The campaign will involve the deployment of seabed borehole drilling and Cone Penetration Test (CPT) equipment from a survey vessel at specific locations within th
The energy company Ilmatar has started a technical seabed survey for its planned Stormskär and Väderskär offshore wind project in Finland. The technical surveys of the seabed started by Ilmatar Offshore, a subsidiary of Ilmatar Energy Oy, are within the maritime areas north of Åland that, according
The geophysical and environmental survey works for the Salamander floating offshore wind project in Scotland have been completed, marking a significant milestone for the 100 MW project that is planned to be progressed through of the Scottish Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round.
The preliminary marine route survey for the second Malta-Sicily electrical interconnector is well underway as Fugro completed the geophysical survey near Malta, InterConnect Malta reports. Fugro Italy finalized the geophysical survey near Malta last week using smaller vessels to reach shallow waters
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) will soon start preliminary site investigations at three new offshore wind areas in the North Sea. The three sites are planned to be auctioned off in 2026/2027 and could jointly accommodate 3.5 GW of installed capacity. On 4 October, BSH launc
SSE Renewables and Equinor are looking into building what would be the fourth part of Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, whose three phases (A, B and C) are currently under construction. Surveys are now underway at an offshore site where the partners want to develop Dogge
Decom Engineering is developing a new lighter subsea chopsaw following the completion of a cutting job on the Gyda platform removal in the North Sea. Decom was part of the project team in charge of removing Repsol Norge’s 30,000-ton Gyda platform, providing cutting expertise to remove conductors fro
