Oceaneering has entered into a contract with Subsea 7 to supply umbilical and flying leads for Shell’s Vito development.
Oceaneering has entered into a contract with Subsea 7 to supply an umbilical and flying leads for Shell’s deepwater Vito development in the Mississippi Canyon area of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The contract is for an electro-hydraulic steel tube control umbilical, and flying leads, totaling approximat
The Sunshine Coast Council and RTI Connectivity (RTI-C) have reached an agreement on a new international submarine cable that should become Australia’s fastest telecommunications connection to Asia and second fastest to the United States. The project includes a 550km undersea fibre optic cable which
Equinor and its partners Shell and Total submitted an application for an exploitation permit for a subsea reservoir for injection and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). This is the very first time the Norwegian authorities have announced a licensing round for injection and storage of CO2. Equinor and
The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch non-profit organization developing technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, has launched the world’s first ocean cleanup system from the San Francisco Bay. The cleanup system (System 001) is set for a two-week trial before continuing its journey toward the Great Pacifi
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, has just released this very interesting photo of a tender boat towing a dredge pipe for placement within the West Fork of the San Jacinto River dredging project. This 1,000 foot, 24 inch diameter section will be part of a 4.5 mile pipeline and th
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 03 – September 09). https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/09/05/pipe-laying-kicks-off-for-nord-stream-2-in-gulf-of-finland/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/09/05/saudi-aramco-awards-marjan-field
Bibby HydroMap has welcomed Gary Fenwick as its new HSE Manager. Fenwick brings 18 years of HSE expertise working in the petrochemical and marine industry. He will be responsible for the HSE department and for all our HSE compliance with industry best practice within Bibby HydroMap for all the compa
Van Oord-Hellenic Cables consortium has secured a contract from TenneT to supply and install subsea and land cables for the Hollandse Kust (South) Alpha project. The 700 MW grid connection will transmit offshore wind energy to electricity users in the Netherlands. Two wind farms with a joint capacit
The Phoenix Submarine Rescue Team deployed on board the M/V HOS DOMINATOR completed submarine rescue operations off the coast of Catalina Island, which culminated in a satisfactory Operational Readiness Evaluation (ORE) by Undersea Rescue Command’s (URC) parent command (Submarine Squadron ELEVEN) to
A Damen’s DOP200 was recently used on a harbor deepening job in Bandar Seri Begawan of Brunei. During the project, the harbor was dredged to a max dredging depth of –11m. “The DOP200 did the job mounted on a SANYI excavator. A long stick was integrated in the excavator’s boom, reaching the required
AUV developer Riptide has announced its first international expansion with the creation of Riptide Autonomous Solutions Canada. Headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Riptide Canada is being established to support the increasing demand in Canada and abroad for affordable, flexible AUV systems. Leona
JFSE has completed its latest cable and pipeline trenching project in the Middle East. The project included 70 kilometers of cable trenching and survey of 33mm fibre optic cables associated with the development of one of the world’s largest offshore producing fields. JFSE Utilised its SP6000 tool wi
Royal IHC has secured a contract from Belgium-based DEME for the design and build of four new vessels. The order consists of a copy of the recently delivered 8,400m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Scheldt River, a 2,300m³ TSHD, and two 3,500m³ split barges. “The Scheldt River was delivered i
