From 2020, all vessels in the PGS fleet will share bathymetry information collected using echo sounders, with The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. The project aims to map the entire ocean floor by the year 2030. The bathymetric data will support Seabed 2030’s crowdsourced bathymetry init
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Bluefield Geoservices, a UK-based provider of specialist subsea geotechnical services announced its expansion into the Americas. The company will initially open two offices in the US, one in the northeast US to serve the immediate demands of the offshore renewable energy market, and one in the south
Polarcus has secured an award of an XArray marine seismic acquisition project in Malaysia. The project is planned to start late December 2019. It will have a duration of approximately four months. Following this award, the Polarcus core fleet is fully booked to early Q2 2020, the company noted. Pola
TGS has started a new seismic survey in the MSGBC Basin, offshore north-west Africa. The Senegal North Ultra-Deep Offshore (SN-UDO-19) 3D survey covers over 5,100 square kilometers, with a modern broadband acquisition set-up. The project is being undertaken in partnership with GeoPartners, using the
Maersk Supply Service has secured an integrated FPSO tow and mooring installation project for an operator in the North Sea. The work scope includes project management, engineering and offshore execution involving six anchor handling tug supply and subsea support vessels. Maersk Supply Service will p
DOF Subsea said it has secured several contracts in the Asia Pacific region, securing 130 days vessel and resource utilisation into Q1 2020. The contracts, for undisclosed clients in New Zealand and South East Asia, will see Skandi Hercules start operations in December 2019 for a major operator. In
GSP Offshore has completed the removal of Gloria jack-up rig for OMV Petrom, from its production location in the Black Sea. The Gloria platform was transported to Agigea harbor in Constanţa. This represents the first removal of an offshore production platform in Romania. The platform was used in oil
Swedish wave energy developer CorPower Ocean has become the latest renewables operator to adopt Mermaid software to assess weather risk and accurately plan its construction and operation and maintenance activities. CorPower will use the software to support decision-making in the early planning stage
Osbit has been awarded a contract by Sapura Energy to design and build an offshore wind turbine pile gripper system. The pile gripper will initially be used to support the development of WPD’s Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The system will be installed on Sapura Energy’s heavy lift vessel and
Electrical installation company Correll Services has recently been awarded a contract by Jan De Nul for the subsea & land cable termination & testing works on the Changhua Demonstration offshore wind farm in Taiwan. This is the company’s second job only weeks after completing its first project in Ta
Ocean data company, XOCEAN, has completed a €7.9-million funding round. The purpose of this funding is to support the company’s international scaling plans and was fully subscribed by existing shareholders. XOCEAN has recently delivered projects for clients including BP, Equinor, PX Group and the UK
Seabed Geosolutions has received a letter of intent for a 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in an active area of the US Gulf of Mexico for a major energy company. The project will use Seabed Geosolutions’ Hugin Explorer vessel, equipped with CASE Abyss nodes that will be deployed by remotely operate
Nexans has received EUR 115 million contract from RTE France to supply and install 67km offshore and 93km onshore power export cables for the 496 MW Saint Brieuc offshore wind farm. Located in the English Channel, some 16 km off the coast of Saint Brieuc Bay, the wind farm is expected to generate en
