UTEC Survey, an Acteon company, has completed an ROV navigation and seismic node positioning project in deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The project, carried out for FairfieldNodal and undertaken in 2425 meters of water, involved use of the latest software and navigation technologies. UTEC conducted the pr
Norway’s offshore union Industri Energi (IE) plans to boycott Bibby Offshore to prevent it from securing more work on the Norwegian Continental Shelf due to information suggesting that the UK-based subsea specialist exercises ‘social dumping’. This is Bibby Offshore’s first contract in Norway with C
Jee has been awarded a contract by Scottish Power Renewables to carry out an array cable optimisation study for the East Anglia ONE (EAONE) offshore wind farm. EAONE is a development planned off the coast of East Anglia for 102 turbines; enough to power more than 50,000 homes every year. Scottish Po
DownUnder GeoSolutions’ has started processing of Olympus 3D Reprocessing Project at its Perth facility, Searcher Seismic informed. The project, in cooperation with Spectrum, comprises the reprocessing of 20 existing 3D datasets through a broadband pre-stack time and depth migration (PSTM and PSDM)
StormGeo, a provider of decision support for weather sensitive operations, has launched ‘Cable Lay Service’, the newest addition to its suite of weather forecasting services. According to the company, its Cable Lay Service provides a Common Operating Picture (COP) to enable operators, owners and sup
Beach Energy’s Udacha field in the Cooper Basin, South Australia, has achieved first gas, Rawson Resources informed. The PRL 26 (Udacha) licence is operated by Beach Energy, and Rawson holds 10% interest. The Udacha-1 well has been tied back as a producing well to the Middleton production facility.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted ExxonMobil consent to start-up a subsea facility for production well 25/11-E-29 AH on the Balder field. Recently ExxonMobil received an approval from Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use E-29-AH subsea well, on the Balder field. The Balder fi
Survey works have been conducted on an area in Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts where a tidal test site will be installed later this year.
Searcher Seismic informed that BGP Pioneer has started acquisition of the Buscador near-shore 2D seismic survey, offshore Mexico. The project comprises 11,200 km of high quality, long-offset 2D data and targets the near shore areas covering rounds 2, 3 and 4, the company explained. The data, which w
Swiber has informed that due to weakness in the oil and gas sector the West Africa project has not been able to progress in accordance with its original schedule. The company secured the contract in 2014 from a Houston-based oil and gas company to provide engineering, procurement, construction, inst
An agreement has been reached between Atlantis Resources’ majority owned MeyGen project and a nearby wind farm development to facilitate access to the distribution grid for other renewable energy projects.
Rotech Subsea has completed a management buyout (MBO) in a move that should see the company strengthen its position in subsea mass flow excavation. Following the MBO, the group’s three operating companies, Rotech Subsea, Rotech Engineering and Rotech Fabrication, will be headed up by continuing dire
Marine engineering firm Mainstay Marine Solutions has secured funding from Finance Wales and Barclays to expand its business in Pembrokeshire.
The first Cape Sharp Tidal turbine and the Scotia Tide barge will arrive in the Halifax Harbour today where its steel subsea base will be ballasted with concrete.
