Vattenfall has issued a tender seeking wind turbine maintenance services on the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The service agreement covers the scheduled maintenance of 54 wind turbines in 2020 and 80 units in 2021. The contract is expected to start in June 2020 and end in
A new GBP 4 million cross-sector project is set to develop the world’s first fully autonomous robotic inspection and repair solution for offshore wind farms. The Innovate UK-funded MIMRee (Multi-Platform Inspection, Maintenance and Repair in Extreme Environments) is a two-year project bringing in ex
Reach Subsea has widened its quarterly deficit for the period ended March 31, 2019 but still managed to stay close to prior-year comparable period despite noticeable revenue drop. For the first quarter 2019, the Norwegian contractor booked comprehensive loss of NOK 19.7 million on revenues of NOK 67
Dutch offshore contractor Van Oord has completed the installation of inter-array cables at Northland’s German offshore wind project, Deutsche Bucht. According to Northland Power, the second phase of the cable installation, cable burial, should begin shortly. The cable-laying campaign was carried out
ABB has won a contract from Arctic Offshore Farming to power its first-ever remote controlled submersible offshore salmon farm in the Arctic Ocean. ABB will provide a comprehensive package of its electrical, automation, instrumentation and telecom technologies. With the global market volume of salmo
Seabed seismic services player Magseis Fairfield has posted loss in the first quarter of 2019. The Oslo-listed company has seen its revenue at USD 120 million, up from USD 25 million same time last year (excluding Fairfield and WGP Group revenue). First-quarter EBITDA came at 16 million, against EBI
Qatar Petroleum has awarded the FEED (front end engineering design) contract to McDermott for the North Field Expansion Project’s offshore pipelines and topsides facilities. The scope of this FEED includes engineering design for eight unmanned wellhead platform topsides, four 38” trunk lines and fou
Atlantis Subsea Farming has for the first time deployed fish in its submersible pen and now the project is following the life of the fish in the deep. Atlantis Subsea Farming AS is owned by SinkabergHansen, AKVA group and Egersund Net, and in March last year the company was awarded a development lic
Kraken Subsea Solutions has been awarded the contract for inter-array cables package installation employer’s representation by Vattenfall for Danish Kriegers Flak (DKF) Project. The French marine renewable projects engineering and consultancy specialist will provide supervision services to Vattenfal
Nord Stream 2, the developer of the twin gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, has performed the release of brown trout fish juveniles under the control of the Northwest branch of the Federal Fishery Agency, Fishery Inspection and Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage. In total 146,000
Port of Brest is getting ready to support the clean energy transition with a new port terminal dedicated to ocean renewable energy and offshore wind industry. French port of Brest started upgrading its quay areas to better serve the needs of the marine renewable energy industry in 2017. The region o
Neptune has recently completed several survey, maintenance and construction campaigns for Oil Search at its offshore facilities in Papua New Guinea. The campaigns were conducted under the ongoing service agreement with Oil Search. Two survey campaigns were completed by Neptune’s Survey Service Line
SeaBird Exploration has secured a contract by Wintershall Dea for 2D acquisition project. The acquisition will take place in the Norwegian Sea. The survey has an expected duration of one month and will start in the third quarter this year. SeaBird did not disclose which vessel will conduct the surve
Ireland’s Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has been advised that hydrographic and geophysical surveys will take place in the Irish Sea off the Wicklow coast between June and September 2019. The surveys will be undertaken to provide bathymetric and subsurface information to facilitate the d
