Hurricane Energy has completed the testing and logging phase of the 205/21a-7 well, the ‘Pilot well’, and operations are now progressing to permanently abandon the well reservoir section prior to side-tracking the top-hole to form the the ‘Horizontal well’. Preliminary third party analysis from the
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the jack-up rig Maersk Gallant with Maersk Oil for the plugging and abandonment of the Leadon and James subsea fields in the UK sector of the North Sea. The duration of the contract is estimated to 230 days, with commencement in February 2017. The esti
Mermaid Maritime’s subsidiary, Seascape, has been awarded two additional subsea contracts in South East Asia with a total estimated potential value of USD 5.1 million. The first package of work involves the DP2 dive support vessel “Mermaid Nusantara” together with heavy duty work-class ROVs for a 30
Tekmar Energy and Subsea Innovation have signed a strategic collaborations agreement to collaborate in sales, product development and strategic initiatives towards cost and risk reduction in both OWF cabling equipment and O&G SURF and pipeline ancillaries. Namely, the new deal should see the two com
Generation from the UK’s offshore wind farms rose by 10 per cent in the first quarter of 2016, from 4.7 TWh in the first quarter of 2015 to 5.1 TWh , with the impact of increases in capacity exceeding that of lower wind speeds, according to the data published by the UK government. Despite higher [&h
Bourbon has seen its loss widened in the first half of 2016 as revenue fell on lower utilization and daily rates pressured by tough market conditions. French vessel owner and offshore services provider has recognized a €104.3 million ($117.5 million) net loss (group share) for the first six months o
Semco Maritime has entered into a 5-year contract for full service and maintenance of the Nordsee One offshore wind farm’s substation. “Together with Bladt Industries, Semco Maritime has built one fourth of the offshore stations on the wind market today, which makes us one of the market’s largest su
Following a short weather-related delay, platform jacket for the Hummer development project in the Gulf of Mexico has arrived to its destination. The platform jacket is a 4 pile, 3 slot structure designed to be installed in water depth of 65.5 meters over the Main Pass Block 270 #3 Hummer discovery
Gazprom has received the first permits for the TurkStream project from Turkish authorities following the decision to resume the project this year. Namely, at last week’s negotiations between Alexey Miller, chairman of the Gazprom management committee, and Berat Albayrak, minister of energy and natur
NEC Corporation has signed a contract with PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk (Telkom) to develop the Indonesia Global Gateway cable system (IGG). The IGG is an optical submarine cable system that will connect the islands of Sumatra, Batam, Jawa, Bali, Kalimantan and Sulawesi with Singapore. The IGG
Cable laying vessel Giulio Verne and support vessel Go Pegasus are continuing with installation and survey work in the Irish Sea along the Western HVDC Link cable route, AWJ Marine informs. The Western Link Project consists of installing two 600 kV DC submarine cables in the Irish Sea from Ardneil (
Aker Solutions said it will provide engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) services to enable a tie-in of the Utgard gas and condensate field to the Statoil-operated Sleipner facilities in the North Sea. The work, valued at about NOK 500 million ($61 million),
Docomo Pacific has completed marine surveys for the undersea path of ATISA submarine cable leading to the cable landing sites on Guam, Saipan, Rota, and Tinian, which is the next step in the route selection process. “The selection process was a joint team effort by representatives from NEC Corporati
AW-Energy, a Finnish wave energy developer, has released a video showing the new method of generating a 3D ground model of an offshore site developed by Lloyd’s Register.
