Royal IHC said it has successfully passed the first significant milestones in the design and build process of an integrated reel lay vessel for Subsea 7. According tot the company, notable achievements include the early completion of the model testing for resistance and propulsion as well as seakeep
Deep Sea Mooring (DSM), a Vryhof company, has secured a contract with Quadrant Energy to provide turnkey pre-lay mooring solutions to the Transocean GSF Development Driller 1 semisubmersible drilling rig offshore Australia. The deal, a continuation of previous work for Quadrant Energy, begins in Mar
SeaRoc Group has been awarded a variation to provide detailed geographic information system (GIS) seabed analysis for E.ON Humber Gateway offshore wind farm. E.ON requested the variation to receive more detailed information about the seabed condition as a whole and at detailed locations through the
Subsea technology companies, Newton Research Labs and Sonardyne International UK, have completed tests to integrate Newton Labs’ underwater laser scanners with Sonardyne’s acoustically-aided inertial navigation system for underwater vehicles, SPRINT-Mapper. According to Newton, the milestone paves t
Oil and gas company DEA Norge has launched a video showing the making of an umbilical cable for Dvalin, its first operated field development project in Norway, at Aker Solutions’ construction facility in Norway.
Coda Octopus has been awarded a follow-on sub-contract from the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State as part of a Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) program. The award is for the development of a prototype real-time 3D Head Up Display solution for divers, coined the “3D HUD System”. The 3
Jan De Nul Group, a Luxembourg based dredging, offshore, civil and environmental company, has ordered three trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs). Cosco Dalian Shipyard Co. Ltd. will build the 18.000m³ dredger in its shipyard in Dalian, China, with the delivery set for 2020. According to Jan De N
Seaproof Solutions said it has been awarded a contract extension to supply all inter array cable protection systems (CPS) for Ørsted’s 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. The wind farm, located 120 kilometers off the Yorkshire Coast in UK, will be capable of providing electricity to well o
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has chartered two boats to survey the waters around the British Virgin Islands as part of the UK’s Overseas Territories Seabed Mapping Programme (OTSMP) commitments. Following the interruption of the original UKHO surveys by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in
Deep Sea Mooring has secured a contract with Quadrant Energy for pre-lay mooring solutions to the GSF DD-1 rig.
Inspection service provider Bluestream has expanded its ROV fleet for services to the UK Central and Northern North Sea sectors by adding two new Saab Seaeye-based systems.
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has recently completed a well abandonment campaign in the North Sea and East Irish Sea for Spirit Energy. Following consolidation of the former OIS Ltd decommissioning personnel into InterMoor, the decommissioning team have added four further wells to the 128 they have
International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) Secretary General, Rene Kolman, will introduce the Dredging for Sustainable Infrastructure guidebook at the congress ‘Hydraulic Engineering Structures of Water Transport’, taking place in Moscow on February 7-8, 2018. Published by the Central Dr
Bluestream, has added two new gravity-based Saab Seaeye Cougar XT Compact Zone II ROV systems to their fleet – a low-profile design of vehicle especially suited for fixed or floating platform inspections. Adding the two Cougar XT Compacts to its current fleet, brings Bluestream’s total of Saab Seaey
