Royal Boskalis Westminster, with its partners, has been selected as a contractor on Saudi Aramco’s Long Term Agreement for Offshore Facilities (LTA) program. The LTA is part of an offshore investment program and covers engineering, procurement, construction, transportation and installation (EPCI) co
A consortium comprising Boskalis Subsea Cables and Flexibles and NKT has been awarded a contract by 50 Hertz for the Ostwind 2 offshore wind farm grid connection in Germany. The contract comprises supply and installation of approximately 270 kilometers of 220 kV high-voltage AC XLPE offshore export
Subsea 7 has secured a sizeable three-year extension of an existing DSVi (Diving Support Vessel initiative) frame agreement, with seven North Sea clients. The North Sea clients include Chevron North Sea, Dana Petroleum (E&P), Hess Denmark APS, Nexen Petroleum U.K, Repsol Sinopec Energy UK, Shell UK
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from November 19 – 25, 2018.
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (November 19 – November 25). https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/11/22/subsea-7-gets-equatorial-guinea-ban/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/11/21/sapura-nets-417m-in-new-contracts/ https://subseaworldnew
Marine energy developer Minesto has joined Swedish multinational companies on a trip to Taiwan as part of a trade delegation led by Stina Billinger, State Secretary at the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation of Sweden.
Ofgem has selected Diamond Transmission Partners as the preferred bidder to own and operate the high voltage transmission link to the Galloper offshore wind farm for the next 20 years. Diamond Transmission Partners, a consortium comprising Mitsubishi Corporation and HICL Infrastructure Company Limit
French tidal energy developer EEL Energy has presented the river version of its prototype tidal turbine.
SIMEC Atlantis Energy said it has agreed terms for the purpose of developing a phased large-scale tidal power project in the Raz Blanchard, Normandy, as well as fostering the marine industry and local supply chain in the region more generally. The deal is with Development Agency for Normandy (AD Nor
Danish clean energy developer Floating Power Plant (FPP) has started a series of tests on the power take-off (PTO) system of its wave energy converter at Aalborg University.
Fugro said its platform-deployed ROV (PDROV) technology has demonstrated ‘substantial’ reductions in the costs of subsea jacket inspections and ‘significant’ operational improvements. Recognised recently by an Engineering Excellence Award from Woodside Subsea Academy, Fugro’s novel PDROV for subsea
The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has officially handed over marine geospatial data to the Guyanese Government after a campaign of hydrographic surveying. Delegates from the UKHO presented the data to government officials at a special event to celebrate the completion of the survey. Two workshops we
New technology developed by MacArtney and ION Geophysical has been launched to gather data for enhanced exploration and production of oil and gas. The technology is in the form of a SailWing actuator and control system designed to ensure the correct positioning and stability of seismic survey source
The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has announced a new collaboration with Shell and others to provide $1 million in funding support for a pilot effort to convert an existing ocean mooring owned by Shell into the first long-term deep ocean obser
