Wintershall Dea has installed two subsea templates on the ocean floor in Norway, marking a major milestone for the operated Nova project. The installation unlocks the next phase of the field development, with 65 kilometers of pipelines now ready to be laid in preparation for tie-back to the nearby G
NKT has been awarded the turnkey project from Equinor for the 132 kV high-voltage cable connecting the oil and gas platforms Johan Sverdrup 2 and Gina Krog. Equinor has selected NKT as the turnkey supplier for the high-voltage cable project connecting the oil and gas platforms Gina Krog and Johan Sv
DOF has formed a partnership with Kongsberg Maritime, SINTEF Ocean, and NORCE, which aims to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions for complex offshore operations, while streamlining fleet-wide maintenance.
The Modular Offshore Grid (MOG), the switchyard platform in the North Sea that will soon bundle together cables from offshore wind farms and connect them to the Belgium mainland, Elia said. The first of two cables was connected to the mainland at Zeebrugge, meaning that the MOG is nearly ready to fu
Sif Holding will manufacture two monopiles for the Two Towers Borssele V innovation site, the company said on Monday. According to Sif, a number of innovations will be applied in the project such as a slip joint connection, seabed protection and a full aluminum sprayed coating. One of the monopiles
Russian giant Gazprom is reportedly looking at the technology made by industrial gases group Linde or Dutch energy giant Shell for its Baltic LNG project.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company’s (GLDD) newest clamshell dredger – under the name No. 58 – has officially started dredging operations, the Oak Brook, Illinois, headquartered dredging company said in its latest announcement. On May 8th, Dredge Captain Phil Sanzone and Dredge Technical Manager Doug
C-Kore systems recently completed its first deployment with VAYCO Oil Tools and local Nigerian partner Cranium Engineering on an asset integrity verification operation off the coast of Nigeria. According to to the company, its units saved vessel time and deferment on the deployment, proving the inte
The US Coast Guard and a team of contractors have deployed a subsea system that is able to contain and collect oil being discharged from the Taylor Energy Company Mississippi Canyon 20 toppled oil platform site 11 miles south of the Louisiana shoreline. The containment system is actively collecting
Upwing Energy, an artificial lift technology company, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have been selected by DeepStar, a global offshore research and development consortium, to perform a feasibility and conceptual study of Upwing’s Magnetic Drive System (MDS) for Electric Submersible Pumps (ESP
Prysmian has been awarded a contract worth approximately €200 million (approximately $224 million) by Vineyard Wind to provide a submarine power cable system which will deliver clean energy to the mainland power grid in the US. With the notice to proceed expected at the end of 2019, Prysmian will be
Sumitomo Electric Industries has completed two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnector cable projects using crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) insulated cables. The first project was the construction of a 400-kV HVDC XLPE cable system, the highest voltage in the world for an HVDC-XLPE cable s
HR Wallingford has started physical model testing of a new offshore wind foundation known as the Gravity Tripod. The company is working with Offshore Design Engineering (ODE), DNV-GL, Cambridge University and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to test and certify the new offshore wind foun
Jan De Nul Group launched their 6.000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Sanderus in Singapore last week. This green vessel – Jan De Nul’s fourth Ultra-Low Emission – is the first of two identical medium-sized hopper dredgers under construction at Keppel O&M’s shipyard in Singapore, fitted wit
