Royal IHC and Subsea 7 have signed a firm contract for the design and build of a new reel lay vessel, following a letter of intent announced in September this year. The vessel will be capable of installing rigid flowlines including pipe-in-pipe systems from shallow waters to depths of up to 3000m. W
Subsea Integration Alliance, which is a partnership between Subsea 7 and OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company has been awarded a contract by Ophir Energy for the Fortuna LNG project offshore Equatorial Guinea. The contract has a value between USD 150 million and USD 300 million. The upstream EPCIC (eng
SAL is launching its Marine Projects department, a team dedicated to heavy lift shipping and marine installation support. The team will be headed by Sune Thorleifsson (Head of Projects) who explains: “Marine Projects is a natural evolution of services for which SAL is already well known. For more th
Contractors working in the Gulf of Finland in the eastern Baltic Sea have selected Applied Acoustics’ Nexus 2 USBL system to carry out sidescan sonar surveys in advance of engineering works as well as for use in marine archaeological operations. The award of this contract is notable as it marks the
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from September 25 until October 1, 2017.
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 25 – October 01). TechnipFMC has been awarded by Statoil an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract. It covers the execution of the subsea pipeline connection for th
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have outlined plans for a wave energy turbine that could provide protection for the shore while also generating power from the waves.
Welsh Conservatives have written to the UK Prime Minister Theresa May asking for the full support for the proposed Swansea Bay tidal lagoon scheme.
Seaborn and Aqua Comms have formed a strategic alliance to provide a new subsea route between South America and Europe. Seaborn’s Seabras-1 subsea fiber network between São Paulo and New York now directly interconnects with Aqua Comms’ America-Europe Connect-1 (AEConnect), Ireland’s first subsea fib
ECA Group has been awarded a contract to supply a riser connection monitoring system to a private operator for oil & gas and nuclear activities in Angola. On an offshore FPSO (floating production storage and offloading unit), the flexible risers are connected to the vessel by means of a bend stiffen
UK marine survey company Partrac has recently provided sea bed erosion data to the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), for a project aimed at upgrading a fish waste dispersion model (NewDEPOMOD). Used by the Regulator to underpin the consenting process for the domestic aquaculture indust
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has named David Oxley as its new director of business and sector development.
PSW Group has taken a strategic step to provide operators with a capping stack as part of Norwegian oil & gas emergency response plans. PSW Group’s capping stack was mobilized and deployed in Fensfjorden on the 22nd of August, as demonstration of the company’s ability to immediately respond to a wel
Another milestone has been reached on the journey towards the completion of Britain’s new polar research vessel the RRS Sir David Attenborough, designed by Rolls-Royce and being built by Merseyside shipyard Cammell Laird. The last of the vessel’s Bergen B33:45 engines /gensets have been craned into
