InterMoor has recently wrapped up FPSO mooring installation project offshore West Africa. Acteon’s mooring specialist was comissioned, through Maersk Supply Service, to provide suction embedded plate anchors (SEPLAs) technology for permanent FPSO mooring system. For the project, InterMoor designed a
Subsea 7 and Eidesvik Offshore have been presented with the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) Environmental Sustainability Award for 2019 in recognition of its efforts to reduce vessel emissions and improve energy efficiency. In January 2019, Seven Viking was converted from a conve
Aberdeen-based well integrity player Unity has completed a preparatory plugging and abandonment project in partnership with oilfield services provider Petrofac. Unity deployed its Temporary Abandonment Cap Test Tool (TACTT) to pressure test two suspended mudline wells in the North Sea in support of
Royal Navy has added unmanned mine hunters and survey technology which will be used on live operations from March. Sailors trained in this of type mission will be stationed at HMNB Clyde, where the remotely operated kit, including submersibles and boats designed to hunt down mines but also analyse t
Aker Solutions has secured a front-end engineering (FEED) study from Equinor to enable power from shore for the Troll B and C platforms, to reduce CO2 emissions from the field. The contract includes an option for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) work following the c
NKT has been awarded a five-year service agreement by the Irish power grid operator EirGrid for cable related services including repair works for the East West Interconnector. The East West Interconnector is a 200 kV HVDC power cable with capacity of 500 MW between Ireland and Great Britain. For NKT
Kongsberg Maritime (KM) said it has stopped the sale of KM Contros GmbH (Contros) in Germany to AML Oceanographic. The Norwegian technology enterprise decided to divest Contros with the announcement of sale and purchase letter of intent with AML in October last year, following a strategic evaluation
Marine environmental consulting firm CSA Ocean Sciences (CSA) has appointed Jason Clermont as project scientist at its Northeast Regional Office. Clermont is a fisheries biologist with background in marine conservation, marine technical operations, collaborative fisheries research, and offshore ocea
Elmeridge Cables Limited (ECL) has recently delivered two contracts for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). ECL was asked by BAS to supply two lengths of double-armoured CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth) cable for two Royal Research Survey vessels. These separate contracts were for a single
A multi-million rupee investment to enhance its Diving and Life Support division in western India will see Unique Group company Unique Hydra strengthen its infrastructure and increase customer accessibility in the region. The 10,000 sq. ft facility in Vadodara, Gujarat, will offer assembly and manuf
Subsea technology company Seatools has secured a contract from an undisclosed EPC player for the design and delivery of a piling template hydraulic and instrumentation system. The system will be used for pile installation during the construction of an offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Pile installation
Norwegian seismic player TGS has appointed Scott Michell as senior vice president of Imaging at TGS and signed an agreement with Google Cloud for flexible, cloud-based, compute capacity. In this role, Michell will oversee all Imaging and R&D activities, and focus on further enhancing the company’s t
Subsea technology firm Rovco has secured a £3.9 million investment from Foresight group via the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund and Foresight VCTs. The investment was part of a larger round totalling £5 million which included funds from existing shareholders. The funds will be used to support
Norwegian seismic player TGS has named a new senior vice president of imaging and signed an agreement with Google Cloud for cloud-based on-demand computation power.
