Bureau Veritas (BV), a provider of testing, inspection, and certification services, has launched its Veristar AIM 3D asset integrity management system, based on Dassault Systemes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform. BV said on Monday that the new solution combines a digital twin of any marine or offshore asset w
Ophir Energy, the operator of the Fortuna gas field offshore Equatorial Guinea is close to securing the financing needed for the FLNG development. The company, which aims to make the final investment decision on the project in mid-2017, has reportedly received backing from unnamed Chinese banks. Acc
Bibby HydroMap has completed site operations on the newly installed export cable of Burbo Bank Extension. Contracted by DONG Energy, the work involved two of the company’s vessels; Bibby Athena and Lia, mobilised with survey equipment to acquire multibeam bathymetry, side scan sonar data, sub bottom
Offshore vessel owner Edison Chouest has won a five-year contract with Shell Brazil for light subsea construction, and inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services from the M/V Island Enforcer subsea construction vessel. Edison said the agreement included a varied list of projects featuring vess
HR Wallingford is carrying out physical modelling to test the scour development and the performance of a frond mat scour protection system to protect the jacket piles for the East Anglia One (EA ONE) offshore wind farm. ScottishPower Renewables (SPR), the developer of the EA ONE, and Seabed Scour Co
Seaborn has partnered with Spread Networks as its exclusive channel partner for sales to the financial vertical on Seabras-1 between New Jersey and São Paulo. This includes sales of SeaSpeed, Seaborn’s proprietary ultra-low latency (ULL) solution providing latency path between Carteret, New Jersey a
Bakker Sliedrecht and Water2Energy have signed a technical development partnership to deliver new water turbines. The vertical axis water turbine (VAWT) that Water2Energy has developed is 30 to 50% more efficient than traditional water turbines, the company said. Bakker Sliedrecht has created a smar
Motive Offshore has completed the construction of the basket carousel loading tower for Swan Hunter. The equipment has recently completed factory acceptance testing, and is now being assembled in The Netherlands ahead of an upcoming mobilisation for flexible riser installations offshore Ghana. The l
Norwegian ROV specialist Kystdesign has been awarded a contract to build another Surveyor Interceptor remotely operated vehicle (SROV) for a joint venture between MMT and Reach Subsea. The Surveyor Interceptor is designed to carry survey instrumentation to perform pipeline inspection, route surveys,
Following a dispute regarding the termination of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Hejre platform, DONG Energy and the supplier consortium have entered into a settlement agreement, including the arbitral claims, related to the contract. The supplier consortium cons
The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, has raised $21.7 million in donations since last November. This latest funding round brings The Ocean Cleanup’s total funding since 2013 to $31.5 million. This new contribution allows The Ocean Cleanup to i
French tubular solutions specialist Vallourec has launched a new drill pipe connection designed to drill in the most challenging environments. The ‘VAM X-Force’ connection was developed to push the limits of the existing technologies to reach deeper, more remote hydrocarbon reservoirs, the company e
Cape Sharp Tidal, a joint venture between Emera and Open Hydro, has hit a snag during retrieval operation of OpenHydro’s 2MW tidal turbine deployed at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), after it identified an entangled line around the turbine system. A possible mooring line or other
Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company (BSCCL) and Singapore’s Blueberry Telecom announced plans to install a submarine cable between Bangladesh and Myanmar. According to reports, the cable, which will be 250 kilometers long with the export capacity of 100 gigabits per second (Gbps), will cost around US
