Scottish business development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has appointed Charlotte Wright as its new Chief Executive Officer.
The NKT Victoria cable-laying vessel has laid the first HVDC cables in the Moray Firth as part of Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks’ Caithness-Moray transmission project. The vessel completed its first campaign from Noss Head in Caithness to the midpoint of the cable route this week. It has
TechnipFMC has been awarded an extension to its ongoing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from Statoil in the Norwegian North Sea. The ongoing EPC project covers the provision of subsea equipment including template structure, manifold and two subsea trees including wellheads a
French hydrokinetic developer HydroQuest will be the first company to test its tidal technology at the recently launched SEENEOH testing site.
McDermott has recently celebrated a milestone with the load-out and installation of the first jacket fully fabricated by the company at its recently-opened Dammam fabrication yard in Saudi Arabia. The Safaniya 264 jacket is part of McDermott’s long term agreement II (LTA II) scope of work with Saudi
The study into the impacts of tidal and wave devices on marine wildlife found little evidence of long-term effects on use of the seas by birds and marine mammals as a result of the operation and installation of such devices at the test sites.
The SR2000 floating tidal turbine will next week be towed back to Fall of Warness tidal testing site following the completion of repair works.
E.ON is expanding its service business in operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms in the UK.
E.ON is expanding its service business in operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms in the UK.
Wood Group has secured a $6 million contract with Woodside to support the execution of phase two of Greater Western Flank (GWF-2) project, located offshore Western Australia. Effective immediately, Wood Group will provide engineering support for the subsea pipeline system during the fabrication and
Jan De Nul Group has been contracted by the Icelandic electrical transmission company Landsnet for an urgent cable repair between Westman Island and the main land of Iceland. The repair is planned to be undertaken in June using the cable installation vessel Isaac Newton, which was mobilized from Can
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) informed that Eni US Operating Co. Inc. has met the regulatory requirements for its Beaufort Sea exploration plan (EP) to be “deemed submitted,” and invites public comment on the plan. Eni US is a subsidiary of Italian oil and gas company Eni S.p.A. In its pl
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has informed that its PB3 commercial PowerBuoy is meeting all of its performance requirements after eight weeks of deployment off Japan.
NDE Offshore, a Sweden-based provider of offshore services, has been recently awarded a two-year inspection, repair and maintenance contract with Ocean Breeze Energy. The service contract includes inspections, maintenance and installation activities as well as ICCP works at the Bard Offshore 1 wind
