Balticconnector project has received main equipment delivery, including a compressor unit and its auxiliaries, for the compression station in Inkoo, Finland. Equipment installation has started and will be completed in April 2019. After that, installation work will continue with the installation of p
Tekmar Energy has been selected by Royal Boskalis Westminster to provide its TekLink Cable Protection System (CPS) Generation 8 for the Innogy Triton Knoll offshore wind farm. Tekmar will be providing 196 systems for protecting the array and export cables; bellmouths for the substations; with sister
Trendsetter Engineering has been awarded a contract for the provision of subsea production equipment from an operator in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract includes Trendsetter’s TCS subsea production connectors as well as production valves, which will be sourced from Advanced Technology Valve (ATV),
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) aboard the deep-sea scientific drilling vessel Chikyu has been conducting IODP Expedition 358, “NanTroSEIZE Plate Boundary Deep Riser 4: Nankai seismogenic/slow slip megathrust” since October 7, 2018. Chikyu will enter the port of Sh
Aker Energy Ghana has submitted an integrated plan of development and operations (PDO) to Ghanaian authorities for the Deepwater Tano / Cape Three Points (DWT/CTP) block offshore Ghana. “The plan will, once approved, ensure an efficient development and production of the Pecan field and further optim
Neptune Energy has filed its draft for decommissioning of two fields located in the Southern North Sea, the Minke and Juliet. The Minke field is located in the Southern Basin of the UKCS and lies about 184 km from the Norfolk coastline. Minke began production in 2007 and was developed through a sing
Multi-client geoscience data provider TGS has been granted the appeal by the Borgarting Court of Appeal for the decision of the Oslo District Court issued in October 2018 in regard to the charges by Økokrim of aiding and abetting in tax fraud. The charges stem from transactions between TGS and Skeie
Marine survey for the Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE1) submarine cable system has been completed and the cable route finalized, Djibouti Telecom, Somtel and SubCom said. The companies also announced the addition of a landing station in Bosaso, Somalia. The DARE1 cable system is the first s
L3 Technologies together with Sonardyne will offer 6G-enabled capability across its commercial autonomous vessel product range. L3’s C-Stat 2 and C-Cat 3 autonomous vessels will be offered factory-fitted with Sonardyne’s 6G range of Ranger 2 Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) tracking and communications sy
Seabed Geosolutions has been awarded a contract by an undisclosed client for 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in what is said to be a challenging area of the Gulf of Mexico. Covering 270 square kilometres and in water depths up to 2,100 metres, the survey will start in the third quarter of 2019 and
UK-based Applied Acoustic Engineering (AAE) has decided to open its first location in an overseas territory. Namely, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, will become home to AAE Americas on May 1st 2019, when the company moves into its new office at the Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneur
Lundin with its partners Wintershall and OMV submitted the plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Solveig field (previously called Luno II). The Solveig oil discovery in PL359, is located 15 km south of the Edvard Grieg field and will be developed via a subsea tie-back to the Edvard Grieg
DEME Group, an international group of specialized companies involved in complex marine engineering works, today marked an important milestone in the construction of their new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Meuse River. “Together with our esteemed partners Royal IHC, we laid the keel of the 8
Oceanographic equipment developed by underwater technology company Sonardyne will be used as part of a $2-million scientific study of disruptive ocean currents in the US Gulf of Mexico. The multi-year deployment, led by the University of Rhode Island (URI)’s Graduate School of Oceanography, will mon
