NEMOS has finalized commissioning works for 2019 Wave Energy Converter (WEC) prototype in Ostend. After the main steel components were delivered, the Power Take-Off System with sufficient data acquisition integration was fitted to the assembly. The belt drive and spring system, that connects the sub
TGS has fired first shot to start a new survey in the MSGBC Basin, offshore north-west Africa. The Senegal Ultra-Deep offshore 3D survey covers over 4500 km2, with a modern broadband acquisition set-up. It is being undertaken in partnership with GeoPartners using the vessel, BGP Prospector, and has
SeaBird Exploration has signed a contract to acquire a 2D seismic survey for an international oil & gas company in the Africa region. The survey is due to start towards the end of September and is estimated to run for approximately three weeks. The company will be using the Nordic Explorer for the w
Eco Wave Power (EWP) has applied for a new international patent (PCT) and a new Israeli patent for an integrated wave and solar system and started the initial testing for the combined solution. The idea for the combined solution was conceived from interest of several of EWP’s potential clients in ha
First Subsea has delivered beach landing Cable Protection System for three export cables on the 120MW Formosa 1 Phase 2 wind farm in Taiwan for Jan De Nul Group, EPCI contractor for delivering and installation of cables and foundations. The protection system was designed to suit an export cable diam
Van Oord has secured a contract from Ørsted for the cable installation works at the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. The wind farms, located between 35 and 60 kilometers off the west coast of Changhua County, will supply sustainable energy to approximately 1 million households
Minesto has made progress in commissioning the autonomous control and power generation systems of its DG500 kite system, since its installation at the company’s Holyhead Deep site offshore North Wales in mid-August. Minesto’s DG500 kite system was installed at the Holyhead Deep using an upgraded lau
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK has been selected to provide an autonomous route survey capability for Project WILTON. The Royal Navy’s Mine Countermeasures & Hydrographic Capability (MHC) team are assessing the ability to ‘deliver UK Peacetime route survey capability by exploiting Maritime Autonomous Systems’.
Modus has recently completed a high-speed decommissioning survey for Rever Offshore in the North Sea using one of its Hybrid Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (HAUVs). The objective of the survey was to locate any items of debris that remained at the sites after the decommissioning of Fairfield assets
Polarcus has started the multi-vessel wide-azimuth project for WesternGeco, the geophysical services product line of Schlumberger, in the Salina del Istmo Basin in the Gulf of Mexico. The project, awarded in June, incorporates two Polarcus high-end streamer vessels plus two source vessels. According
Equinor and its partners, AkerBP and Wellesley Petroleum, have found gas in the Ørn exploration well south-west of the Marulk field in the Norwegian Sea. Recoverable resources are estimated at 8–14 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent, corresponding to 50–88 million barrels of oil equival
MAKO Energy, a Singapore-based marine renewable energy company and a subsidiary of the Elemental Energy Technologies Group, has officially opened the MAKO Tidal Energy Site at the Sentosa Boardwalk, Singapore. The official launch of the MAKO Tidal Energy Site follows signing of a collaboration agree
Great Yarmouth-based Stowen has won a contract to deliver a complete cathodic protection system to Equinor’s two Sheringham Shoal offshore subtations. The work will take place in the fourth quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020. The installation of the system will ensure the life expectancy
ExxonMobil has made an oil discovery on the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana at the Tripletail-1 well in the Turbot area. The discovery adds to the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of more than 6 billion oil-equivalent barrels on the Stabroek Block. Tripletail-1 encountered approxim
