OEG Renewables’ subsidiary Hughes Subsea has been awarded a contract to carry out an unexploded ordnance (UXO) identification and clearance campaign on the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site in the UK. The campaign is expected to last six months, commencing in mid-March and continuing
Stromar, a joint venture between Ørsted, BlueFloat Energy, and Renantis, has awarded Sulmara with a contract to conduct site characterization work at the namesake 1 GW floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. For this work, Sulmara will utilize the 60-meter multi-purpose subsea vessel Vos Gorgeous t
Liverpool City Region’s Mayor has presented the UK’s “first of a kind” barrage scheme between Wirral and Liverpool for the city region’s flagship Mersey Tidal Power project. Said to have the potential to become the “world’s largest” tidal scheme, the Mersey Tidal Power project would potentially crea
Oceaneering has placed an order with a UK-headquartered company for a next-generation auto-drop piston corer expected to enable time-saving for subsea geotechnical surveying. A piston corer is a long, heavy tube plunged into the seafloor to extract samples of soft sediment, which provide information
Fugro has extended its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PTSC Geos & Subesa Services (PTSC G&S) to provide site characterization services to support Vietnam’s offshore wind sector. Under the two-year agreement, Fugro’s full range of marine site characterization services will be deployed with PT
The first geotechnical seabed surveys for TotalEnergies and SSE Renewables’ 500 MW Seagreen 1A offshore wind farm in Scotland have been completed. Phase two of the geotechnical works is expected to commence later this year and should take around two weeks to complete. Seagreen 1A lies adjacent to th
One of the drillships owned by Stena Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor, has completed its 15-year special period survey (SPS).
France-headquartered Nexans has completed the offshore export cable pull-ins for both offshore substation platforms at the 882 MW Moray West wind farm, located in the Moray Firth in the northeast of Scotland. The cable-laying vessel Nexans Aurora took advantage of a recent period of favorable weathe
Japan-headquartered Sumitomo Electric Industries has placed a multi-million-pound order for cable storage carousels for its power cable factory in Scotland. THREE60 Energy reported it had signed a contract with Sumitomo to design and deliver cable storage carousels for the power cable factory in Nig
Canada’s first LNG export facility, the Shell-led LNG Canada project in Kitimat, British Columbia, is nearing completion of the first phase, with commissioning and start-up activities about to begin. Construction work at the LNG Canada facility is almost complete and commissioning and start-up activ
Exail’s DriX uncrewed surface vessel (USV) has finished what is said to be a first-of-its-kind fisheries research survey for assessment of the impact on biomass and fish stock before, during, and after wind farm construction. The DriX USV performed the survey offshore Massachusetts, Rhode Island, a
Northern Ireland-based Harland & Wolff has inked a five-year master services agreement with what it says is a global oil services company for the fabrication of subsea structures. The work will take place at the Arnish yard situated on the Isle of Lewis. Harland & Wolff received its first purchase
H2 Barge 2, a second inland containership converted to run on hydrogen by Dutch shipbuilder Holland Shipyards Group for compatriot shipowner Future Proof Shipping (FPS), has completed its first trials. Holland Shipyards Group shared the milestone via social media on March 5, saying that the coming d
Fugro has deployed one of its floating LiDAR buoys in the maritime area of Lithuania’s future offshore wind farm to gather wind and meteorological measurements in the Baltic Sea, which are necessary for the development of the 700 MW project. The measuring station, which was put on a special buoy, wi
