New Jersey Fiber Exchange (NJFX), the first Tier 3 carrier-neutral colocation campus that intersects where subsea cables from the United States, Europe, South America and the Caribbean meet, has welcomed Tata Communications as the first colocation customer and diamond sponsor for its Tier 3 by the S
Helix Energy Solutions’ well intervention subsidiary, Helix Well Ops, has completed a four-month campaign in the Gulf of Mexico carrying out intervention to decommissioning work scopes. According to the company, a total of six jobs were executed, including a lump sum construction decommissioning wor
Subsea 7 has cut first steel on subsea structures for Maersk Oil’s Culzean project at Nigg Energy Park fabrication yard. The work is part of a $150-million subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) contract the company announced in September last year. The contract scope includes project manageme
Nexans cable technology has been selected by VBMS to deliver inter-array and export cables for Blyth offshore wind farm. As part of its own contract with EDF Energy Renewables, VBMS will use the Nexans 66 kV inter-array cable system to provide the subsea connection between the offshore turbines and
Aquind has been given a green light by Ofgem for a project to build a £1.1 billion subsea and underground electricity cable linking Hampshire, UK with Normandy in France. The Aquind interconnector is due for completion in 2021 and should deliver up to 2GW of additional capacity to the UK power grid.
Nextgen and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), part of Nokia, today officially switched on the North West Cable System (NWCS), Australia’s first purpose-built, subsea, fibre-optic network, servicing the oil and gas industries and telecommunications services in Australia’s North West growth cor
Melbourne Water began this month a trial of a custom-designed, fully integrated sediment dredging, separation and dewatering system. The three-month trial of this Dredging and Sediment Separation System (DSSS) is an innovative approach to minimizing the impact of our operational activities at a wetl
Alewijnse Marine Systems is undertaking the complete electrical outfitting of the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Spauwer, developed in-house by Den Herder Seaworks. The works are taking place at Shipyard Trico B.V. in Rotterdam. The TSHD Spauwer is a large and highly sophisticated hopper dre
Following a successful deployment of its riserless coil tubing (CT) technology in the offshore petroleum industry, Island Offshore is said to be taking it to the next level by performing heavy well intervention with coil tubing in producing subsea wells. In 2015 Island Offshore made history when dri
Seismic contractor Polarcus has secured a letter of award from an undisclosed client for 3D marine seismic acquisition in Australia. The Oslo-listed company said it plans to carry the survey by utilizing its XArray acquisition technique. According to Polarcus the broadband data acquisition project i
Impact Subsea has appointed Equipment and Consulting for Hydrographic Operations (ECHO81) as distributor of its products within the United States. ECHO81 will provide local support for Impact Subsea’s range of underwater altimeters, depth sensors and heading equipment. Based in Florida and founded e
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has just published the latest issue of Terra et Aqua, their official quarterly publication. The magazine is supported solely by the IADC as a service to the world-wide dredging community and represents IADC’s commitment to the highest standa
The Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF), together with Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN) and Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), has launched a joint industry project (JIP) aimed at helping producers reduce time and costs in determining whether gas fields are economically viable. The oil industry trade
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has launched a new collaborative way of working with the oil and gas industry. NOC said it will provide innovative science and technology to enable industry to work safely and efficiently, with minimum impact on the marine environment. The launch comes off the
