Italian oil company Eni has signed a contract with Ocean Power Technologies for the supply of OPT’s PowerBuoy in the Adriatic Sea for marine environmental monitoring and offshore asset inspection using autonomous underwater vehicles. OPT’s PowerBuoy consists of a float, spar, and heave plate. The fl
Ocean Power Technologies has signed an agreement with Eni to supply a PB3 PowerBuoy for a demonstration of one of Eni’s subsea oil and gas operations. The agreement provides for a minimum 24-month contract that includes an 18-month PB3 PowerBuoy lease and associated project management. OPT will also
Naval Group has signed a design services subcontract (DSSC) with KBR to assist with the concept design of the Future Submarine construction yard at the Osborne Naval Shipbuilding precinct in South Australia. The submarine construction yard concept design will include the facilities and infrastructur
SBM Offshore has awarded TMC a contract to supply the marine compressed air system for the FPSO destined for the Liza project.
Utility ROV Services (URS) and EDT Ship Management have entered into an agreement in relation to the provision of boulder clearance services utilising the UTROV load bearing ROV system system and DP2 vessel, EDT Kennedy. The services will be provided to clients as a permanently mobilized spread, inc
NERA has approved funding to Carnegie Clean Energy for securing a renewable energy power supply to Eni’s platform off Australia.
HR Wallingford, an independent civil engineering and environmental hydraulics organization, has just released a very interesting article named “Developing a new tool to optimize sea wall design”. Sea walls are designed to protect people, property and infrastructure from large waves that can occur wh
ZTT has successfully completed supply and installation of the first 33kV long distance submarine power cable in Bangladesh, connecting Chittagong and Sandwip Island. The end user is Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB). The contract was signed with BPDB in September 2017. ZTT finished productio
L3 OceanServer has rolled out its new Iver Precision Workhorse (Iver PW) autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The new Iver PW is the first in a family of highly capable commercial AUVs to address a wide variety of customer missions, including survey research and mapping, sub-surface security, and en
Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has joined forces with technical and engineering services company QinetiQ on a project that aims to let submarines stay submerged longer while using less power and providing better conditions for sailors, thanks to an advanced crystal technology called MOF
DEA Norge has released a video which demonstrates the process of lifting Dvalin subsea template onto four suction anchors at the Aker Solutions yard in Egersund. The Dvalin gas field, previously known as Zidane, discovered in 2010, is DEA’s first own operated field development project in Norway. The
Oil and gas company DEA has launched a video showing the Dvalin template lift at Aker Solutions’ yard in Norway.
AutoNaut, developer of autonomous wave propelled vessels, has rolled out the new generation of 5-metre AutoNaut unmanned surface vessel (USV) with several new and upgraded features. The latest wave foil technology enables speeds of 1-3 knots to be consistently maintained, with no need for fuel and f
Jumbo has hired Huisman Equipment to design and construct two offshore mast cranes for their new heavy lift crane vessel (HLCV) to be delivered in the first quarter of 2020. The main crane will have a 2,500t capacity, while Jumbo has opted for a triple hoist to allow for complex upending operations.
