Equinor and Vissim have reached a global frame agreement to deploy its solution for surveillance of ocean space surrounding all Equinor-operated assets off UK and Norway.
Jan De Nul has just released this beautiful photo of their trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Bartolomeu Dias, taken during the Prince Hendrik Sand Dike reinforcement project at Texel, the Netherlands. According to the company’s latest announcement, the TSHD recently pumped ashore the last porti
Norwegian industry initiative GCE Subsea has decided to change its name to GCE Ocean Technology, effective February 1, 2019. The issue of a name change has been up for discussion on several occasions as the cluster is exploring further markets beyond the traditional oil and gas sector. The new name
European powerhouse and investor in clean energy InnoEnergy has awarded an additional €1 million to the commercialisation of Minesto’s marine energy technology. This makes the Swedish marine energy developer InnoEnergy’s largest investment in ocean energy. Including the latest €1 million injection,
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Scottish Enterprise (SE) are supporting marine specialist Leask Marine in its submersible drilling rig research and development project. Leask Marine will invest £1.5 million in its R&D project with aim to target commercial opportunities in the offshore ren
Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG) has seen its membership numbers rise over the past 12 months with an increase in the number of companies supporting both the offshore wind and wave and tidal sectors. Among the 25 new sign-ups are marine engineering firm EC-OG, weather forecasting business Stor
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (December 03 – December 09). https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/12/03/siemens-and-aker-solutions-form-digital-alliance/ This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View
Akastor has entered into agreements with AGR stakeholders to combine its First Geo business unit with AGR. The Transaction will be carried out primarily as an asset deal, whereby assets in the current AGR legal structure and three legal entities will, together with First Geo, be transferred to a new
Norwegian seabed seismic services player Magseis has gained competition clearance from the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice to acquire the Seismic Technologies business from Fairfield. The acquisition comprises data acquisition, nodal and
Norwegian offshore oil and gas consultancy and services companies First Geo (owned by Akastor), and AGR are set to merge. The merged entity will be owned by Akastor.
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) said it has secured a contract to design and construct a submarine rescue vessel for the Republic of Korea Navy. The contract is valued at approximately 444 billion Korean won ($395 million). The new submarine rescue vessel will be equipped with the la
Equinor has been given the green light by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for the Troll Phase 3 development. According to Equinor, the capex of NOK 7.8 billion should help extend the productive life of the Troll field beyond 2050. Since it came on stream in 1995 the Troll oil & gas fi
Cabling specialist Nexans has set up a dedicated team for inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services. The new IMR team can support customers worldwide with emergency response, a 24/7 hotline and fast-track mobilization. “Nexans has an impressive toolbox when it comes to IMR. We can offer a fu
PacketFabric has selected subsea fibre-optic network operator StrataNet to provide secure, private intra-Asia capacity, extending its disruptive Software-defined Network (SDN) platform into Asia. This strategic partnership should enable PacketFabric to reach the Asian continent, making PacketFabric’
