Subsea services group Acteon has acquired Houston-based corrosion specialist Deepwater Corrosion Services. According to Acteon, the addition of Deepwater’s expertise and portfolio should strengthen its integrity management abilities of critical subsea infrastructure throughout the life of a field. D
Horizon Geosciences’ vessel the MV Horizon Geobay has completed Inch Cape’s 2018 offshore site investigation campaign. The geophysical and geotechnical surveys were undertaken on the 150km2 proposed site, 15 kilometers off the Angus coast. Surveys were also carried out along the export cable corrido
Norwegian company Fred. Olsen has informed its BOLT Lifesaver wave energy device passed 50 days of non-stop power production since the installation in October 2018.
John Griffiths, Associate of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) and former Technical and Compliance Director, has won the coveted International Standards Maker Award at the BSI Standards Awards 2018.
McDermott and BHGE have signed a memorandum of understanding with Western Gas Corporation to be the exclusive development partners for the Equus Gas Project in Western Australia. The companies were also awarded a contract to support the planning phases of the project. As part of this initial contrac
Allseas’ pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit will enter the Baltic Sea via the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark to join the Nord Stream 2 construction fleet. The vessel is due to start the pipe-laying in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the coming week. Pioneering Spirit will be mobilised in De
The Ocean Energy Scale-up Alliance (OESA) project, coordinated by the Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC), has received funding to support the accelerated deployment of ocean energy pilots in the North Sea Region.
DESS Aquaculture Shipping (DESS Aqua), a part-owned company of Solstad Offshore within the aquaculture segment, is raising new equity to finance fleet growth. Namely, in order to fund the remaining part of the existing newbuilding program and two new vessels DESS Aqua has decided to raise NOK 700 mi
Seaway Offshore Cables (SOC), in combination with Subsea 7, has been awarded its first US offshore wind project by Ørsted Wind Power North America who are constructing the project for Dominion Energy. The multi-million-dollar contract will see SOC, and Subsea 7 operating out of the Gulf of Mexico, p
A Spoondrift wave buoy that ACEP’s researchers deployed as part of Sandia National Laboratories project to improve real-time forecasts of available wave energy, broke free of its mooring in Alaska just a week before its scheduled retrieval.
The European Union’s Interreg North Sea will fund the DecomTools project to develop eco-innovative concepts for the end-of-life for offshore wind farms.
Scottish Renewables has called on the Scottish government to support renewable energy in its draft budget, which is expected to be announced on December 12, 2018.
Export cable installation at Hornsea One offshore wind farm has been completed months ahead of schedule, Ørsted said on Tuesday. With offshore export cables totaling 467 kilometers, around the same distance as London to Newcastle, plus an onshore cable route of 38 kilometers connecting each of the t
UTEC, a part of Acteon, has been awarded a subcontract by McDermott International for a series of survey work scopes offshore eastern India. UTEC will provide surface and subsea positioning services during the installation of subsea flowlines, pipeline end manifolds and terminations, jumpers, risers
