The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted the licensees of Gullfaks Sør consent for start-up and operation of new subsea wet gas compressor and umbilical on the Gullfaks field in production licence 050, in the northern North Sea. Statoil is the operator at Gullfaks Sør with 51%. Other pa
Houston-headquartered Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., an oil and gas services company, has been awarded by Shell a deepwater trenching contract in Parque das Conchas field (BC-10) offshore Brazil. Namely, the Anglo/Dutch oil and gas major Shell, has awarded a contract to Helix’s robotics subsidi
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has produced a seal for a valve designed by Schoolhill Hydraulic Engineering for BP’s Shah Deniz field. The subsea QEV (quick exhaust valve) has been created for a subsea HIPPS (high integrity pressure protection system) at the South Caspian Sea site. Trelleborg created
Shel has awarded a contract to Helix’s robotics subsidiary, Canyon Offshore, to trench and bury over 40 kilometers of pipe in 1675 meters of water in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. The work will be performed at the Shell-operated BC-10 field in the fourth quarter of 2015 from the DP III M/V Grand
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, the cables subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, and Telefónica are upgrading the PENCAN-7 and PENCAN-8 undersea cable systems linking landing points on the Spanish mainland to Gran Canaria and Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The 100 Gbit/s upgrade will offer a more than t
Petrex Developments has completed the inspection of the BW Athena Dynamic Flexible Riser/Umbilical Systems, FPSO Mooring System and Hull for North Sea Operator Ithaca Energy UK. The BW Athena Flexible Riser System consists of three flexible risers, two dynamic umbilicals, a mid-water arch (MWA) with
Dong Energy has informed that the foundations setup for the Gode Wind offshore wind farm project is moving forward according to plan. According to the company, the last of the 97 foundations will be installed in a few weeks . Despite foundations being 7.5 meters in diameter, targets for the noise re
The launching ceremony of the 1.840 m³ twin screw trailing suction hopper dredger “MAHURY” took place at MTG Dolphin Shipyard in Varna, Bulgaria, on August 10, 2015. The new TSHD is Dutch Dredging’s fourth IHC-built vessel, after the ALBATROS, LESSE and AMAZONE. The MAHURY is an upgraded version of
Makai Ocean Engineering has completed the world’s largest operational Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power plant with a dedication ceremony held on August 21, at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA). Makai’s OTEC power plant uses the temperature difference between the oc
VBMS has been awarded a contract by E.ON for the installation of two 16 kilometre-long export cables for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. The 150kV HVAC cables will transport the power ashore from the 400 MW wind farm to the onshore cable in Brooklands Pleasure Park in Worthing, South East England. V
Marine geophysical services company WGP informed that spring 2015 P-Cable High Resolution 3D (HR3D) and 2D (HR2D) operations for TGS in the Barents Sea have now been completed. The programme of work comprised both extended regional coverage with HR2D data acquisition, combined with targeted HR3D blo
A wave energy converter prototype, Volta, designed by UK-based Polygen, has begun testing at the wave energy test site, FaBTest, in Falmouth Bay. The wave energy device, built almost entirely from high-density polyethylene (HDPE), will continue tests over the coming year in the waters off Falmouth.
Fugro has undertaken successful trials of its new GeoWing, a system designed to detect low ferrous content unexploded ordnance (UXO) items in challenging marine environments. According to Fugro, the new GeoWing system is especially beneficial for subsea construction projects, such as wind farms and
Marine Power Systems, a Swansea-based developer of wave energy technology, has expanded its team by hiring Daniel Pérez Torres as a full-time design engineer. Torres is a mechanical engineer from Queen Mary University, London, specialised in computational methods. Subsequently he completed a Master
