3sun Group has opened a new base in Hull to improve the company’s position within the offshore wind installation, inspection and maintenance services market in the UK and Europe. 3sun Group will support local energy firms such as Siemens who have recently invested in the region as part of their comm
The Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project has seen a completion of the offshore pre-lay of the 77 kilometer chain and cable mooring system in the Browse Basin, off the coast of Western Australia. As part of the mooring system, 49 chains were laid on the seabed in water depths of up to 250 metres and an
The second tidal energy turbine for the Paimpol-Bréhat tidal array demonstration project has been assembled in Brest.
The Premier-operated Catcher project is progressing under budget and is scheduled to deliver first oil in the second half of 2017, the company informed on Wednesday. Premier said that the forecast gross capex to first oil is now anticipated to be some 15 per cent below that original sanctioned due t
James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) has won a contract for the design, manufacture, installation and maintenance of temporary pontoons at the Newhaven Port which will be used during the construction phase of the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm. JFMS has worked closely with its sister company Mojo M
Seismic player Polarcus has received a letter of intent (LOI) from Repsol for a broadband 3D survey offshore Morocco. According to the Oslo-listed company the survey is scheduled to start in Q3 2016. Polarcus did not reveal how long the project would run, nor the vessel which should be assigned for
Multinet Pakistan, Omantel and Xtera Communications have signed a supply agreement for the new subsea cable system Silk Route Gateway 1 (SRG-1). The new cable will directly link Muscat in Oman to Karachi in Pakistan, with a future extension to Gwadar in Pakistan. “The SRG-1 project is our ambition t
DeepOcean, in corporation with Maersk Supply Service, held a naming ceremony for the Maersk Connector in Newcastle, UK. The vessel was named by a godmother Haydee Noemi Castillo Diaz de Boyde, the wife of DeepOcean’s commercial director Pierre Boyde. Pierre Boyde said: “We are extremely proud to hav
Maritime Developments (MDL) has delivered a new flexible pipe deployment and retrieval system for Magma Global, which is, reportedly, set to reduce the costs and risks of light well intervention for the offshore oil industry. The m-IDP (integrated deployment package) was unveiled at the company’s as
Hughes SSE has completed a 6-week cable decommissioning campaign for Jersey Electricity of the OSS EDF1 power cable. The cable connected the Island of Jersey to France, and spanned 31 kilometers. The link will be replaced by so called Normandie 1 (N1) cable, scheduled for installation by VBMS’ vesse
Waveswing America, one of the finalists in the Wave Energy Prize challenge, has finalized the design and started construction of its 1:20 scale wave energy converter ahead of Carderock testing.
Hamburg-based wind turbine maker Senvion recorded EUR 29 million revenue generated by its offshore wind segment in the first quarter of 2016, a 3.6% increase compared to EUR 28 million offshore wind-related revenue reported for the same period a year earlier. Net firm orders for the quarter stood at
Bibby Offshore has won two contracts with a multi-million pound combined value. The first contract win is a DSV IRM campaign at two unnamed fields in the UKCS, Northern North Sea. The scope of work includes performing barrier testing, reconfiguring flexible pipelines, installing a new production spo
Northumberland-based Osbit and Dutch subsea technology company Seatools have entered into a collaborative agreement to develop new offshore systems including active motion compensated Walk to Work gangways. The collaboration has already delivered its first product innovation. Building on Osbit’s est
