Norwegian vessel owner Eidesvik has secured a contract with Adwen for the Viking Neptun for support work in the offshore wind market. According to the Oslo-listed company, the contract start is mid-October 2017, and it is scheduled to last for 5 months firm with further options. “I am very pleased w
Cape Verde’s Maritime and Port Office (AMP) and German-based wave energy developer SINN Power have signed a contract for the installation of a wave energy converter in Cape Verde.
Toronto-based underwater mineral exploration company Nautilus Minerals has said it needs to obtain new funding of approximately $41 million prior to the end of 2017 in order to maintain the development of the Solwara 1 project and the company’s operations. As previously disclosed, the Nautilus requi
Minesto has deemed the £4.5 million funding award for the Morlais tidal energy demonstration zone as very encouraging for the development of tidal energy in Wales.
French Agency for Environment and Energy Management (ADEME) has provided funding to Guinard Energies’ to further advance its tidal turbine installation system.
The results from the latest analysis by Westwood Global Energy shows that the market is starting to emerge from a cyclical downturn that has seen activity fall 36% and expenditure nearly halved. The work-class ROV (WROV) market is driven by drill-support, field construction and IRM activities offsho
US-based wave energy developer Atmocean has deployed its full-scale Waverider pump off the east coast of Canada.
Aquamarine Subsea Solutions has been awarded a contract to upgrade Diamond Offshore’s 18-¾” 15M subsea stack for the Ocean Valiant semi-submersible, currently operating in the North Sea. Aquamarine will supply engineering design, fabrication, and assembly and test to upgrade the stack to accommodate
Neptune has recently supported SMIT Salvage’s project to remove the Harita Berlian 18 wreck with the provision of survey & ROV services in the Traffic Separation Scheme area of the Singapore Straits. Neptune provided project management and a 7-man team to deliver the integrated services. Neptune’s s
Swiss project developer Nord Stream 2 AG has submitted to the competent permit authorities applications for two permits to construct the planned twin 1,200-kilometre Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines through the Baltic Sea in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The pipeline will run 374 kil
Hawaiki Submarine Cable and TE SubCom informed that the final preparations are underway for the start of the installation of the Hawaiki submarine cable in early October 2017. According to the latest update, the 14,000 km of undersea fiber-optic cable that comprise the Hawaiki transpacific cable sys
Menter Môn, the manager of the Morlais tidal energy project, has been awarded £4.5 million of EU and Welsh government funds to further develop the scheme proposed off Anglesey in North Wales.
CGG has completed a 11,500 sq km wide-azimuth (WAZ) survey on behalf of Pemex in the deepwater Perdido area. This new survey has been acquired perpendicularly to existing WAZ data and the combined imaging of this first large-scale orthogonal WAZ data set is expected to provide significantly enhanced
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will be taking part in the study that will assess the economic feasibility of the installation of wave energy converters in the waters off Yakutat in Alaska.
