Dril-Quip has completed a fourth subsea tree installation on Premier’s Catcher field development located in the Central North Sea in a water depth of 299 feet (91 meters), offshore UK. The company has been manufacturing the subsea trees and controls for Premier Oil since it was awarded the contract
GE Oil & Gas has completed the qualification of its upgraded 36 kV high voltage wet mate connector. Mecon WM 36/500 can be used with equipment such as transformers, switchgears, variable speed drives and motor loads. “Our Mecon Wet Mate 36/500 connector is designed to provide highly reliable connect
Global Switch has informed that Trident Subsea Cable (Trident) is to locate Points of Presence (PoPs) within Global Switch’s data centres in Sydney and Singapore when it builds its cable network in the Asian region. Trident’s cable network, anticipated to be ‘ready for service’ in mid-2018, will con
Materia Inc., catalysts and advanced polymers manufacturer, has developed ‘Proxima’ thermoset resins as its new solution for the oil and gas industry. According to the company, Proxima resins provide solutions that could solve major technology challenges in subsea thermal insulation, subsea buoyancy
ABB, the EPC contractor for the delivery of control equipment for the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), has contracted OptaSense, a QinetiQ company, and its partner Optilan to provide leak detection and security packages for the pipeline. Control infrastructure includes telecommunication
Van Oord and Highland Group Holdings have signed a cooperation agreement for the development, financing and construction of the offshore wind farm Deutsche Bucht in Germany. Van Oord will execute the engineering, procurement and construction of the foundations, inter array cables and the offshore su
Subsea World News has gathered all the highlights to bring you a summarized version of the most popular articles from the previous month. The greatest highlight last month, and so far this year, was the merger announcement between the largest provider of subsea equipment to the industry, FMC Technol
Mermaid Maritime, an international subsea and offshore drilling services company, has been awarded six different deals in the Asian region with an estimated aggregate contract value of $15 million. The contracts were awarded through Mermaid’s subsidiaries, Seascape Surveys and PT Seascape Surveys In
BAM has been awarded a contract to design, fabricate and install five full-size gravity base foundations for wind turbines off the Northumberland coast, UK. The contract has been awarded to BAM by EDF Energy Renewables via SPV Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Ltd. The foundation design will utilize ‘self
VBMS has been awarded a contract by EDF Energy Renewables to provide the subsea connection between the offshore turbines and the onshore grid for the Blyth offshore wind farm. Reportedly, this will be the first project to use the new 66kV cable technology. The standard voltage for array cables until
Joint integrity specialist, Hydratight, has completed an upgrade project on a section of subsea pipeline on the North West Shelf of Western Australia. Contracted by Quadrant Energy on behalf of the John Brookes joint venture, Hydratight engineered, manufactured, delivered and supported the installat
Prysmian Group has been awarded a new contract worth approximately € 34 million by Terna Rete Italia S.p.A. for submarine power cable links in the Venetian Lagoon. The contract has options for a second cable link with a value of approximately € 25 million. The project includes two 14 km and 6 km lon
GAC EnvironHull’s hull cleaning system, HullWiper, will be available for vessels berthing in the Port of Rotterdam next month. HullWiper, which will be demonstrated at the Port of Rotterdam on June 23, is a diver-free remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that eliminates the need for divers to clean the v
Geir Håøy has assumed the position of the new CEO of Kongsberg as of today, June 6, 2016. Håøy has replaced Walter Qvam, who handed in his resignation in January 2016. Geir Håøy (49) joined Kongsberg in 1993. He has been a part of the corporate management team since 2010 when appointed new president
