Subsea engineering analysis consultancy, AgileTek, has formed a partnership with Blue Wind Engineering in South Korea. The memorandum of understanding will allow for future cooperation between the two businesses with the collective aim of expansion within the South Korean offshore wind industry. It
Former CEO of Rotork, a manufacturer of actuator and flow control equipment in the oil and gas sector, joins ASCO.
Ashtead has completed a subsea installation monitoring project for Subsea 7 in support of Equinor’s Utgard development.
Ashtead Technology has completed a subsea installation monitoring project for Subsea 7 in support of Equinor’s Utgard development. The contract, which was awarded by i-Tech Services on behalf of Subsea 7, saw Ashtead’s Deflection Monitoring System (DMS) used to capture data required to deploy a subs
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. said in its latest announcement that their large trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Prins der Nederlanden is now powered by a biofuel blend, resulting in a substantial CO2 reduction. According to the release, Boskalis will also use a biofuel blend on the project t
Telecom Egypt board of directors has approved the acquisition of 50% of its subsidiary Egyptian International Submarine Cable Company (EISCC) at a value of USD 15 million. EISCC had recently completed the acquisition of Middle East and North Africa Submarine Cable (MENA Cable) from Orascom Investmen
Hawaiki Submarine Cable has selected Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme solution based on Waveserver Ai and various packet-optical networking platforms to deliver connectivity to Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and the United States. Hawaiki cable began commercial operations in July 2018, deliverin
SAEx International plans to expand its reach to the US East Coast through Sparkle’s Pan-American network. The initial phase of the SAEx project provides for crossing the Atlantic Ocean by linking the South Atlantic section of the SAEx cable from Cape Town to Brazil and then reaching the US East Coas
C-Kore Systems recently delivered C-Kore subsea testing units to Bibby Offshore for use on a fault-finding campaign in the East Irish Sea. The units were used to locate the source of low IR on the field and reduce the testing time. According to the company, its testing units are becoming the tool of
New York-based L3 Technologies has acquired unmanned surface vessel (USV) and autonomous vessel control systems company ASV Global. This acquisition should enhanced L3’s unmanned maritime capabilities, including integrated anti-submarine warfare (ASW) solutions, future surface combatant unmanned off
Prysmian Group has completed commissioning of the inter-array cable system for the Wikinger offshore wind farm, located within the West of Adlergrund cluster in the German Baltic Sea. Prysmian secured this project in February 2015 with a contract awarded by Iberdrola, the world-leading renewable ene
EMODnet, an initiative of the European Commission, has launched a high-resolution, 3D underwater terrain model for the European Seas. The model is said to be a significant upgrade of the “bathymetry DTM”, a service that visualises the beds or floors of water bodies, in this case the European Seas. T
Archer has elected Kjell-Erik Østdahl as chairman of the board and James O’Shaughnessy as a new board member in the company to fill a vacancy on the board. Kjell-Erik Østdahl has had a tenure of 21 years at Schlumberger in a number of senior positions within operations, business development, marketi
Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR), DEME’s subsidiary specialised in deep sea harvesting, has unveiled the nodule collector ‘Patania II’. The pre-protoype is the successor of the tracked soil testing device ‘Patania I’, which was tested during a 2017 expedition in the Central Pacific Ocean. The ‘Pat
