The wave energy device by Ocean Energy Ltd, funded by the Government of Ireland through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), has arrived in Hawaii on a one-year testing cycle. The Cork-based company will be testing its 500kW wave energy converter at the U.S. Navy Wave Energy Test Site
Vår Energi and license partner Mime Petroleum have submitted the revised plan for Development and Operations of Balder and Ringhorne, the Balder Future project, to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Vår Energi and Mime Petroleum plan to extend the Balder and Ringhorne production lifetim
Forum Energy Technologies has completed a three-month upgrade to its hyperbaric testing facility, which, according to the company, will result in an operational time saving to client of more than 35 per cent. Located at the company’s Kirkbymoorside base in North Yorkshire, UK, the pressure test tank
Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded hybrid node and towed streamer seismic survey by Repsol Oil & Gas Malaysia. The survey is scheduled for Q1 2020 and is expected to take 2 months to complete. The project covers approximately 1,000 square kilometers of ocean bottom and towed streamer seismic on
Toronto-based Biome Renewables has completed the testing of its PowerCone tidal technology in Strangford Loch, Northern Ireland in cooperation with Queens University Belfast and Cuan Marine Services. According to the company, the initial results are very promising. Reportedly, the PowerCone retrofit
Aker BP and its partner Pandion Energy have produced first oil from Valhall Flank West in the North Sea. Through the development of this field, the wellhead platform alliance between Aker BP, Kvaerner, Aker Solutions and ABB set a new standard for delivery of flank developments on the Norwegian shel
Tekmar has completed a quick turnaround project in under four weeks for DeepOcean and its ultimate client Hengtong. The works saw Tekmar deliver over 6.5 kilometers of protection weighing over 6.5 tonnes of TEKTHANE polyurethane for the EDP WindFloat project off the coast of Portugal. James Ritchie,
Boskalis has been awarded two offshore contracts with a combined value of approximately €85 million. For a new offshore wind farm in Taiwan, Boskalis will carry out the scour protection of the turbine foundations and in Denmark a four-kilometer-long gas pipeline will be installed in the seabed. The
Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a combined 2D and 3D broadband marine seismic acquisition campaign by ONGC in Eastern Offshore, India. The contract is planned for execution in the first half of 2020. The survey covers 1,600 sq. km of 3D and 800 km of 2D data in a deepwater area of the Bay [&
Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Offshore Oil Engineering Co. (COOEC), for CNOOC’s Lingshui 17-2 gas field development project – steel catenary risers installation services. The field is located in the South China Sea approximately 150 kilometers offshore Sanya, Hainan province. The contract
ScottishPower Renewables has awarded James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) with a contract to provide scheduled maintenance at the East Anglia One offshore wind project. Under the GBP 5.6 million contract, JFMS will provide scheduled and corrective maintenance to the wind farm, with work including sta
Fugro has been awarded a 5-year contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide hydrographic surveying services in the US. The contract was issued by NOAA’s National Ocean Service, Office of Coast Survey, to support the creation and maintenance of highly accurate na
Naval Group has been selected by the Netherlands Ministry of Defence (MOD) to enter the next phase in the selection process for the Submarine Replacement programme. Naval Group joins Saab and TKMS in the final “knock-out” phase, with the contract award (D-Letter) expected some time around 2022. As r
Singapore-based Gas Oil Services (GasOil) has delivered a wireless 80t capacity Straightpoint (SP) Running Line Dynamometer to a pipe laying project offshore Taiwan. The dynamometer, part of SP’s tension in motion range, was purchased by a Japanese company that employed it on wire rope as the cable
