NDE Offshore AB has recently been awarded a contract by Siemens to conduct periodic inspections of the helidecks on three offshore HVDC platforms in the North Sea. The grid connections are owned by German-Dutch transmission grid operator TenneT. Already completed is the Helwin1 platform, where inspe
Dragados Offshore has been awarded a contract by DONG Energy for delivery of four substation jackets for its Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. The 1.2 gigawatt project consists of 174 wind turbines connected to three offshore collector substations and a reactive compensation substation, the la
Representatives Mark Sanford R-S.C and Gerry Connolly D-Va joined together in sending a letter signed by 53 other members of the House to president Obama. It requests a halt to the permitting process for potential seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean. “If one is not going to do something, it doesn’
Seatricity, a Falmouth-based wave energy developer, has released a video showing the recent installation of its wave energy device Oceanus 2 at Wave Hub.
Jobs supported by the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry will have fallen by the end of 2016 by an estimated 120,000 since their peak in 2014, according to new data published by industry trade body Oil & Gas UK. The analysis, carried out by marketing services company Experian, forecasts that in 2016
Det norske has entered into an agreement to merge with BP Norge through a share purchase transaction, to create a new offshore E&P company. The announcement comes just a few days after Det norske revealed subsea contract awards in excess of NOK 2.3 billion to Aker Solutions and Subsea 7 for its Alvh
Marine environmental consultancy, Hartley Anderson, on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change, is currently welcoming applications to tender for a study to model underwater sound propagation during geophysical surveys and predict received sound levels for marine mammals. Several seism
Joint integrity specialist Hydratight said it has deployed all offshore equipment to its facility in Gonzales, Louisiana to improve flexibility for customers. The decision to move its stock from Deer Park, Texas means it will be closer to the centre of the oil and gas industry’s current activity in
A one-third of 1300T monopiles for the Veja Mate Offshore Project have been successfully installed. The construction phase began in April 2016 and Veja Mate contractor Offshore Wind Force (OWF) has managed to install 24 monopiles, in the German North Sea using the Jack-up vessel, Scylla. Rasmus Mill
European Commission’s Horizon 2020 has granted multi-million funding for tidal energy projects run by Tocardo, and OpenHydro, with their partners.
Offshore contractor Jan De Nul has completed the setup of scour protection (first phase) around the 51 foundations of the Nobelwind project. The scour protection is part of the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract the company signed with the offshore wind project N
A research by industry body, Subsea UK, has found that, 90% of surveyed companies in the UK’s subsea industry have in the last 18 months seen sales drop by 30-50% or more. Of those, 28% have lost half their revenues with sales decreasing by 50% or more, while close to 6% reported no impact on sales
The video above shows Wintershall’s flagship development in Norway achieving a new milestone as the subsea templates for the Maria field were installed last week some 210 kilometres offshore Kristiansund, Norway. Two subsea templates arrived in Kristiansund in May onboard the heavy load carrier Meri
Saipem has been awarded a contract by Eni Portugal for the utilization of the Saipem 12000, which will operate offshore Portugal. Built in 2010 by Samsung Heavy Industries, Saipem 12000 is a sixth generation ultra-deepwater drilling ship capable of operating in water depths of up to approximately 36
