OceanWorks, a subsea solution engineering company, is providing an upgrade to the Strait of Georgia Shore Station for Ocean Networks Canada (ONC). The work scope consists of design, supply, installation and system integration testing of the upgraded system. The new system should provide ONC with the
Offshore drilling services provider Aban Offshore has been awarded a contract by the India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for deployment of the drillship Aban Ice for a firm period of 3 years. The total value of the letter of award is approximately $72.4 million (equivalent to INR 471 Crores
DNV GL has launched Twisties, a new joint industry project (JIP) aimed at standardising and improving offshore wind logistics.
Fugro is set to begin ‘phase two’ of cable laying operations at the Rampion offshore wind farm, following a winter break. In August, Fugro started cable laying operations at the Rampion site, off the UK’s Sussex coast, from its subsea construction vessel, the Fugro Symphony. The vessel loaded and tr
4Subsea has been awarded the wellhead integrity monitoring contract for Odfjell Drilling on the Deepsea Stavanger drilling operations on Wintershall’s Maria field development. The scope of work includes monitoring six wells for the coming 12-18 months, with an option of further two wells. The monito
Deepsea Metro I has started mobilisation from Labuan, Malaysia for the drilling campaign offshore the Philippines. A contract, signed by Odfjell Drilling, on behalf of Golden Close Maritime, with Galoc Production Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nido Petroleum, is for the Galoc-7/7ST well locat
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, has achieved a new transmission record of 70.4 Tb/s capacity over 7,600 km utilizing its newly available C+L technology. The C+L technology includes amplifiers with nearly 10THz of usable optical bandwidth, a transmission line designed to minimize noise accumula
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has released a video showing the scale testing of wave energy devices as part of its stage one technology development process.
Finima Innovations is looking to appoint research and development engineers to support its wave energy development activities.
Kongsberg Maritime has signed a contract with the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) for delivery of four complete HUGIN AUV systems (autonomous underwater vehicles) for detection, classification and identification of mines. Under the NOK 155 million contract, the HUGIN AUV’s will have a depth
Globe Telecom has landed the Southeast Asia-United States (SEA-US) submarine cable system in Davao, the Philippines. The SEA-US cable was connected to the Globe cable landing station in Brgy, Talomo, Davao City that also houses the power feed equipment necessary to run the system. “We are excited ov
BP has made another gas discovery in the North Damietta offshore concession in the East Nile Delta, Egypt. The Qattameya Shallow-1 exploration well was drilled to a total depth of 1,961 metres in water depth of approximately 108 metres using the El Qaher II jack-up rig. The wireline logs, pressure d
Nord Stream 2 AG’s contractor Wasco has started concrete weight coating of the pipes needed for the natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea in its pipe coating plant in Kotka, Finland. Almost half of the 200,000 pipes needed for the entire project will be concrete weight coated in Wasco’s plant
Statoil has, on behalf of its partners, submitted plans for development of the Njord and Bauge fields to the Norwegian minister of petroleum and energy, Terje Søviknes. The company submitted a revised plan for development and operation of the Njord field and a plan for development and operation of t
