Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder VARD has held the keel laying ceremony for what is said to be a highly customized hybrid power cable lay and construction vessel that will serve the Japanese offshore wind market. VARD is building the vessel for Toyo Construction, a Japanese general constructi
Maritime Developments Limited (MDL) has been tasked with providing horizontal subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines (SURF) lay spread onto an I-class subsea support vessel to assist Denmark-headquartered Maersk Supply Service (MSS) with a solution development scope at a giant oil field in the pre
DeepOcean has won a new multi-year subsea assignment off the coast of the UK with an undisclosed operator on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
UK-headquartered tech player Beam has tucked a milestone in marine technology and underwater robotics under its belt with the development and deployment of a new innovative technology offering, said to be the world’s first autonomous underwater vehicle driven by artificial intelligence (AI).
Rem Offshore has tapped a compatriot energy design and smart control systems firm, Norwegian Electric Systems (NES), a subsidiary of HAV Group, to furnish one of its construction support vessels (CSVs) with a deck-based battery energy storage system (ESS).
AGR has disclosed a list of improvement features that will be added to a ship originally built as a platform supply vessel (PSV), which is said to have emerged as a solution to a major energy industry bottleneck – the scarcity of special-purpose ships, with refurbishment work allowing it to sign up
Saipem has won another such deal for work at an oil and gas field off the coast of Saudi Arabia, which the country’s energy giant Aramco operates.
Norwegian seismic company TGS has finished the acquisition of an ultra-high-resolution 3D (UHRD3D) survey on behalf of Community Offshore Wind in the New York Bight, providing soil condition data to guide the design of the offshore wind project. According to TGS, the survey began in October 2023 and
Beam, a new brand formed by the merger of UK-based providers of tech-powered offshore wind solutions Rovco and Vaarst, has added two autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) and an electric work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to its fleet. Under the brand-new name, the companies aim to bring technol
Nexans and Ulstein have held the grand block ceremony for the new cable-laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Electra, bringing the vessel closer to realization. The ceremony was celebrated on September 10 at CRIST, Poland, with the remaining processes such as engineering, outfitting, system integration, equip
Norwegian ship design company Breeze Ship Design has secured a contract for the design of two battery hybrid multipurpose offshore supply vessels (MPSVs) for Greek shipowner Capital Offshore Management.
Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) is getting ready for its first project with the pick up of inter-array cables destined for a UK offshore wind farm. Calypso, Van Oord’s second CLV which will mostly be used for installing inter-array and export cables for offshore wind projec
Danish power cable manufacturer and installation company NKT has awarded Swedish–Swiss automation company ABB with a contract to supply a power distribution system for its newbuild cable-laying vessel (CLV) that enables integration of multiple power sources and allows engines to run at variable spee
Norway’s Kongsberg Discovery has completed a multi-week fully autonomous mission with its long-range autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) HUGIN Endurance, said to have proven shore-to-shore operational capability. The mission, carried out at depths ranging from 50 to 3,400 meters and meeting the 1,20
