TechnipFMC has been awarded by Statoil an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract. It covers the execution of the subsea pipeline connection for the new production platform in Peregrino Phase II Project, located in Campos Basin, offshore Brazil. This new fixed platform will
Deep Down, an oilfield services company, has accepted the resignation of executive chairman and chief financial officer, Eugene Butler, effective September 30, 2017. The company’s board of directors has named current audit committee chairman, Mark Carden, as chairman of the board and current busines
Economy and Infrastructure Secretary, Ken Skates has announced £4.5 million of EU and Welsh Government funds to help boost the marine and tidal energy sector in North Wales. The funding will support Menter Môn’s £5.6m Morlais scheme which will help accelerate the development and commercialisation of
Unique Group has executed a dealer agreement with Norwegian-based Kongsberg Maritime. As part of the agreement, Unique Group’s Cape Town office will offer KM’s underwater mapping and navigation solutions to customers in Nigeria and Kenya. The Kongsberg range of underwater mapping products includes t
Veracel Celulose, a Brazilian company involved in the forestry and pulp mill businesses, has found Damen in their quest for a solution to keep their Belmonte maritime terminal at sufficient water depth. Jointly Veracel and Damen evaluated the situation on site and developed a solution to maintain th
STX Europe Offshore Energy, EPCI contractor of the substation and its foundation for Rentel offshore wind farm in Belgium, has installed the foundation last week. After installing first monopiles and transition pieces for the turbines at the Rentel offshore wind farm, GeoSea’s vessel Innovation inst
Lighthouse has delivered a new AGEOTEC ROV Sirio to Tripodij, a Croatian company based in Dugopolje (Split, Croatia). Tripodji is specialised in pipe inspections and visual cable detection and in the past used to rent small ROVs and equipment to accomplish its missions. Following Lighthouse presenta
The Finnish Transport Agency Liikennevirasto (FTA) has selected Teledyne CARIS Hydrographic Production Database (HPD) as the new system for chart production for current and future needs. With many lakes, an archipelagic sea, and an estimated 40,000 islands, the FTA has a large and complex portfolio
Rutter Inc. has informed that a collaborative initiative with Statoil Canada Ltd. and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador on has been successfully completed. Rutter said on Tuesday that the joint effort between the two companies was aimed at improving offshore oil and gas operations in harsh
JFD has recently taken part in international submarine rescue exercise, Dynamic Monarch ‘17, which required it to demonstrate the NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS) capability, as well as provide training on various elements of the system. JFD is responsible for maintaining NSRS in a permanent stat
Swedish power company Vattenfall has launched a call for tenders to supply inter-array cables and installation works for three Danish offshore wind projects. Vattenfall has been awarded the concession for the Danish offshore wind project Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd, Danish Kriegers Flak, led by
Italian oil company Eni has made another discovery in the shallow waters of Mexico’s Campeche bay, after successfully drilling the Miztón-2 well. The company on Tuesday said the new discovery boosted the estimates of the resource in place for Contractual Area 1 to over 1.4 billion barrels of oil equ
The results from the latest analysis by Westwood Global Energy shows that the market is starting to emerge from a cyclical downturn that has seen activity fall 36% and expenditure nearly halved. The work-class ROV (WROV) market is driven by drill-support, field construction and IRM activities offsho
Nexans has started the manufacturing process of the SEAX-1 (SEA Cable Exchange-1) cable at its dedicated facility in Rognan, Norway. Nexans will manufacture and deliver 250 kilometers of subsea fiber-optic cable to Huawei Marine as prime turnkey supplier for the SEAX-1 project. The cable system will
