A consortium comprising Aqua Comms, Bulk Infrastructure, Google and Facebook has selected to land the HAVFRUE system in New Jersey at the NJFX (New Jersey Fiber Exchange) Tier 3 by the Subsea Colocation campus. The HAVFRUE subsea cable will be constructed between New Jersey and Denmark, with branch
Scotrenewables Tidal Power has started work to remove the SR2000 turbine from its test berth at EMEC, in a move to start site preparation work for their optimized 2MW floating tidal turbine. The SR2000’s withdrawal from service at EMEC follows a year of testing which saw it generate in excess of 3GW
Telecom Egypt has concluded the acquisition of Middle East and North Africa Submarine Cable (MENA Cable) from Orascom Investment Holding “OIH” through its subsidiary Egyptian International Submarine Cable Company EISCC. The total enterprise value of MENA Cable is USD 90 million of which USD 40 milli
Jan De Nul’s new 3,500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Tristão da Cunha was launched yesterday at the Keppel Nantong shipyard in China, a subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine. This green vessel is equipped with an exhaust gas treatment system filtering out and virtually eliminating many p
Cairn India has made an oil and gas discovery in the shallow waters of the Krishna Godavari basin, offshore India.
Subcon has announced a new method to mitigate pipeline-walking. Developed in cooperation with Shell Global Solutions (Shell), it is an engineered ‘pipe-clamping mattress’ (PCM). The technique was first developed on Shell’s Malampaya Project; as an alternative to traditional rock dumping. According t
Clinton Marine Survey was recently awarded a contract for Lot 1 of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency’s (MCA) UK Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP). The MCA funds, manages and delivers the UK CHP which provides high-quality hydrographic data that underpins the production of national nautical charts and
The Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) at the Joint Hydrographic Center at the University of New Hampshire has added FarSounder as a partner in their Industrial Associates Program. As the globally recognized experts in 3D Forward-looking Sonar technology, FarSounder gives the students a new layer of i
Swan Hunter has completed mobilisation and commissioning of its new modular offshore carousel and associated equipment onboard the ASV Pioneer barge, for client CWind. The new basket carousel, has been mobilised onto the barge in the smallest of four configurations, at 2000Te capacity, but can be ex
Van Oord’s Debris Removal Platform, developed in-house, has won the 2018 IADC Safety Award. By changing the existing technique of manually removing debris to an automated system, the risk of personal injury is reduced. During dredging, debris can fill the trailing draghead of a trailing suction hopp
Subsea Technology & Rentals (STR) has won its first project through its Australian entity since the appointment of Jason French as business development director for the Asia Pacific region. This project will see STR mobilise its spread of equipment to support a local Perth based client for operation
DeepOcean has opened a new offshore services base at Blyth in the North East of England with aim to increase presence in global cable lay and trenching markets. Offshore Services Base Blyth is purpose built to support the planning, preparation, mobilisation and maintenance of DeepOcean’s subsea tren
French LNG specialist GTT has recently received an approval in principle from classification society Bureau Veritas for the development of its new liquefied natural gas containment system. The system named NO96 Flex is a new evolution of GTT ‘s NO96 range and maintains the main elements of the NO96
Bergen-based Seaproof Solutions, a Balmoral company, has signed a long-term frame agreement with Danish operator Ørsted for the development, design and manufacture of cable protection systems (CPS) to be used on offshore wind farms. The companies will participate in a cooperative process to continuo
