Fugro Netherlands Marine has won a contract to carry out an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey and identification campaign at the 900 MW EnBW he Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The He Dreiht offshore wind farm will be built some 90 kilometres northwest of the island of Borkum and ab
Namibia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has granted a second one-year extension for the Petroleum Exploration License 87 (PEL 87) located in the Orange Basin. Canada-based Sintana Energy reported on 21 December that Namibia’s Minister of Mines and Energy had granted a second one-year extension to the
EGS has completed an offshore geophysical and hydrographic survey for Ørsted’s Skipjack Wind offshore wind project off the coast of Maryland’s Delmarva Peninsula, USA. EGS was contracted by Ørsted to conduct, process, and interpret high-resolution geophysical and hydrographic survey data of the near
Solstad Offshore has received Letters of Award from subsea contractors for the construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Maximus that combined have a duration of minimum 200 days. The Norwegian company reported on 23 December that Normand Maximus had received Letters of Award from various undisclose
TGS and CGG have secured a contract to carry out the acquisition and imaging of a dense ocean bottom node (OBN) multi-client seismic survey in the Sleipner area of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras has awarded Norwegian seismic company PGS with a 4D production contract over the Barracuda-Caratinga field in the Campos basin offshore Brazil. The Ramform Victory will most likely be rigged to acquire the Barracuda-Caratinga 4D survey, supported by PGS Apollo a
DOF Subsea Asia Pacific has secured a contract to provide construction support for riser and spool installation including air and saturation diving for a brownfield expansion project in Malaysia. The award includes project management, engineering, procurement, transportation and installation servic
Surveys of the area that the Lithuanian Government selected for the country’s first offshore wind farm have shown that the seabed in the Baltic Sea is suitable for the development of this type of project. The Lithuanian Energy Agency selected Geobaltic and Garant Diving to carry out the geophysical
The Crown Estate has announced the awarding of the first contracts for its first major investment in surveys to help with the construction of floating offshore wind farms in the Celtic Sea. The awarding of the first contracts marks an important step in what is anticipated to be a multi-million pound
CGG has made an agreement with Carbon Transition’s subsidiary Axxis Multi Client to reprocess the Utsira ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey in the Norwegian North Sea.
XOcean has completed a seabed survey for SSE Renewables at the proposed Setanta Wind Park site, formerly Braymore Wind Park, off the coast of Ireland using its fleet of Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs). The survey, utilising multi-beam echo-sounder sensors, will be used to characterise the seabed in
Helix Robotics Solutions, a division of Helix Energy Solutions, has purchased three additional subsea tools for trenching and boulder clearance ploughing operations. As part of the asset investment, Helix Robotics acquired two SMD model Q1400 subsea trenches, capable of jetting and mechanical cuttin
Norwegian seismic companies PGS and TGS have secured pre-funding for the Santos Sul MultiClient 3D project in the southwest Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The survey will cover more than 15,000 square kilometers of both open acreage made available by ANP via the new Permanent Offer mechanism (POR), a
TDI-Brooks has installed the Starlink Maritime platform on two of its four research vessels, both currently working on offshore wind projects in the U.S. The platforms were installed on RV Brooks McCall and RV Miss Emma McCall, which are currently performing geological and geophysical surveys on the
