Sercel, CGG’s seismic equipment business, has launched a purpose-built acoustic source designed to help protect marine wildlife from high-frequency emissions while conducting seismic acquisitions. According to Sercel, Bluepulse is compatible with all existing peripherals making it an easy choice for
Fugro has completed the final phase of the site survey programme over the planned Pensacola exploration well location on Licence P2522 in the Southern North Sea. Data collection began on 16 October and was completed on 20 October with demobilization commencing shortly thereafter. Accordingly, all si
PGS has entered into a strategic collaboration with Magseis Fairfield to collaborate in the hybrid towed streamer and ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic market. The strategic collaboration has a global scope with an initial focus on the North Sea, and a duration of one year, with options to extend by t
Norwegian seismic exploration company Shearwater GeoServices has unveiled a new seismic source technology for enhanced subsurface characterization known as Harmony. The technology provides seismic surveys with enhanced low frequencies enabling better decisions for exploration, development, and carbo
The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities has requested Energinet to expand the current feasibility study areas at the Bornholm Energy Island site in the Baltic Sea, which could allow for installing 1 GW of offshore wind capacity more and also be the new place where the Hesselø project co
Manor Renewable Energy (MRE) has placed an order with Teledyne for survey equipment to be installed onboard its new survey vessel Manor Brunel.
UK’s OceanTools has launched what is believed to be the smallest subsea IP camera on the market.
Fugro is carrying out an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey campaign at the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project in the Netherlands.
Swedish marine survey specialist MMT has appointed Sara Båth-Dahlström as CEO, succeeding Per-Olof Sverlinger. Båth-Dahlström, who is taking over the position on an interim basis, has been with the company since 2019. MMT appointed Per-Olof Sverlinger as its CEO back in the summer of 2018. Sverlinge
Remedial work on the cable protection system (CPS) on inter-array cables at an offshore wind farm in the UK, owned by RWE, is set to start in the next couple of days, following the discovery of a defect CPS at several locations within the wind farm site earlier this year. The work, scheduled to comm
Nexans has won a contract with Parkwind to provide turnkey business continuity services to four of its offshore wind farms in Belgium. The Northwind, Belwind, Nobelwind and Northwester 2 farms are among the biggest in Belgium, with a combined installed capacity of 771 MW. Together, these four wind f
Bureau Veritas has delivered an Approval in Principle (AiP) to iXblue for its innovative unmanned surface vessel (USV) DriX.
Seismic vessel utilization has recovered to pre-Covid-19 levels in the third quarter of 2021, with about 68% of the global fleet now surveying or underway, according to a recent report by Rystad Energy. The seismic industry took a hit by the Covid-19 pandemic for several quarters, keeping nearly hal
The Ireland-based Alpha Marine is set to kick off a reconnaissance survey at the Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 located off the Wicklow coast in the Irish Sea.
