Maersk Supply Service has been awarded a contract to provide decommissioning services for the Janice subsea field in the North Sea for Maersk Oil UK. Maersk Supply Service will assume responsibility for engineering, project planning and managing the scope of the subsea decommissioning. “With the awa
Aker Solutions has secured a contract from Statoil to deliver a compression module for the Troll field in the North Sea to help boost output at one of Norway’s key offshore fields. The contract is valued at NOK 370 million and is an option in a front end engineering and design (FEED) agreement award
Red Marine has delivered a subsea clamp handling system to a US-based provider of subsea riserless light well intervention services. The company delivered the fast-track project in eight weeks from initial consultation through to commissioning of the clamp handling system. With a working load limit
Waves4Power, a Swedish wave energy developer, has faced a setback when a damage on its WaveEL wave energy device was discovered during a routine inspection.
Optimism from Scotland’s wave and tidal energy sectors, fuelled by the Meygen’s launch on Monday, boosted delegates at Scottish Renewables’ Marine Conference in Inverness this week.
Helix Energy Solutions’ well intervention subsidiary, Helix Well Ops, has completed a four-month campaign in the Gulf of Mexico carrying out intervention to decommissioning work scopes. According to the company, a total of six jobs were executed, including a lump sum construction decommissioning wor
EnQuest and Delek have not been able to reach an agreement with regard to the potential sale of an interest in the Kraken development. In July this year, EnQuest entered into discussions with Delek for the sale of an interest in the Kraken development to one of Delek’s subsidiaries. The two companie
Subsea 7 has cut first steel on subsea structures for Maersk Oil’s Culzean project at Nigg Energy Park fabrication yard. The work is part of a $150-million subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) contract the company announced in September last year. The contract scope includes project manageme
Nexans cable technology has been selected by VBMS to deliver inter-array and export cables for Blyth offshore wind farm. As part of its own contract with EDF Energy Renewables, VBMS will use the Nexans 66 kV inter-array cable system to provide the subsea connection between the offshore turbines and
Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) will begin mooring works related to the deployment its PLAT-O tidal energy converter at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) site next week.
Marine and Towage Services (MTS), a UK-based marine services provider, has supported the recently completed works at Wave Hub site by providing its MTS Xplorer vessel for survey operations.
Dubai-based Marine Assets Corporation (MAC) is moving forward with the construction of its 227 meters long production support vessel (PSV) at Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding in China. The vessel is to be used by the Toronto-based underwater mineral exploration company, Nautilus Minerals and its PNG partne
Norwegian offshore vessels provider, GC Rieber Shipping, has secured a charter extension with Nexans Skagerrak, a subsidiary of subsea cables specialist Nexans Norway, for the CSV Polar King. The first time charter agreement announced in March this year, was set for a fixed period of about 8.5 month
Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 248 F, is in the process of completing the drilling of four wells in the North Sea. The wells are wildcat well 35/11-20 S, appraisal well 35/11-20 A and wildcat well 35/11-20 B. Due to technical issues, well 35/11-19 S had to be abandoned, and wel
