Norwegian subsea services provider Argeo has appointed an interim chief executive officer (CEO) as the current CEO Trond F. Crantz has stepped down from the role. Argeo’s Board of Directors yesterday, April 3, appointed Jan P. Grimnes to serve as interim CEO of the company following the decision tha
Balmoral Comtec, part of Balmoral Group, has invested £1 million (approximately $1.3M) in a new wave and current simulation facility at Balmoral Business Park in Aberdeen. According to Balmoral Comtec, the facility is designed to simulate surface, subsea, and seabed conditions for testing offshore
Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract to deliver an integrated package of equipment for a new offshore support vessel (OSV) that Polish shipbuilder CRIST S.A. is constructing for Norwegian vessel owner DOF Group. Designed by MMC Ship Design, the 110-meter long DP3 ice-class vessel named Sea Drag
UK-headquartered Zero USV has named Leeway Marine as its first international franchisee for its uncrewed surface vessel (USV) charter fleet in North America. According to Zero USV, Oceanus12 is designed for long-distance over-the-horizon operations and is mission agnostic, allowing a wide range of p
Norwegian subsea services provider Argeo has signed new contracts under which its two vessels will be deployed offshore South America and Africa on oil & gas projects. The contracts will see Argeo Searcher perform autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) survey work in South America and Argeo Venture AUV
A 42-meter-long geophysical survey vessel owned by Fugro that ran aground in Italy on Saturday, March 22, had been safely brought to port, the Dutch company reported. The Fugro Mercator ran aground on the north coast of Elba, Italy, when it went looking for shelter due to deteriorating weather condi
Spanish maritime survey and ROV services operator ACSM has put its 25-year-old offshore support vessel (OSV) Nautilus back to service after a couple of months of upgrade work. The 73-meter-long vessel completed its upgrading phase at the shipyard Viana do Castelo in Spain, after which it spent a few
Northern Lights joint venture (JV) partners Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies have made a final investment decision (FID) to progress phase two of the namesake CO2 transport and storage development. This will increase the project’s transport and storage capacity from 1.5 million to over 5 million ton
Italian cabling company Prysmian Group and Dutch integrated subsea solutions service provider N-Sea Group have signed a seven-year framework agreement for rapid response maintenance and repair of submarine cables. The collaboration targets enhanced energy security, bolstering the resilience of subma
An Allseas vessel has commenced offshore works for the first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the Netherlands with an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey along the pipeline route, seen as one of several important pre-lay activities before pipeline installation. Allseas’ purpose-buil
Norwegian vessel operator Sea1 Offshore, ex-Siem Offshore, has placed an order with Chinese shipyard Cosco Shipping for an additional two next-generation offshore energy support vessels (OESVs), sisters to the two ordered at the end of 2024. Sea1 Offshore placed the order for the first two OESVs wit
Italian cabling company Prysmian Group has fitted two of its new cable-laying vessels (CLVs) Monna Lisa and Marco Polo with wave monitoring technology from Miros. According to Miros, by integrating the WaveSystem and Miros Cloud technology, the vessels will benefit from improved situational awarenes
UK remote robotics company HonuWorx has acquired its first remotely operated vehicle (ROV), manufactured by Rovtech Solutions, which will be a key component of a subsea robotics deployment platform that aims to remove the need for surface vessels. By removing the need for surface ships, the Loggerhe
A 42-meter-long geophysical survey vessel owned by Dutch Fugro ran aground in Italy two days ago while performing survey work. Fugro announced that its geophysical survey vessel Fugro Mercator had run aground on March 22 on the north coast of Elba, Italy, when it went looking for shelter due to dete
