Statoil to Present Hywind Scotland Project in Peterhead To provide local communities with information about the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, Statoil will hold a public exhibition on 20 January in Peterhead. 2015 Huge for Wind Power in Scotland Following a record final month, 2015 proved to be a “huge
Statoil to Present Hywind Scotland Project in Peterhead To provide local communities with information about the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, Statoil will hold a public exhibition on 20 January in Peterhead. 2015 Huge for Wind Power in Scotland Following a record final month, 2015 proved to be a “huge
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 11 – January 17). The deepwater pipelay construction vessel “Jascon 18” was arrested last week on behalf of a shipyard in Singapore. The vessel, formerly owned by the marine contractor Sea Tru
Fraunhofer UK, Synaptec and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) have teamed up to develop a new way to address cable and electrical infrastructure integrity within the marine renewable energy industry. Funded by InnovateUK, the ORCHIDS project (Offshore Renewable energy Cable Health monitoring
Energy generated by wind turbines covered a record-breaking equivalent of 42.1 per cent of Denmark’s electricity needs in 2015, data gathered by Energinet.dk shows. The last year’s result is a 3 per cent improvement compared to a 39.1 per cent equivalent of Denmark’s needs covered by wind-generated
Royal IHC has named and launched Subsea 7’s 550t pipelaying vessel, Seven Cruzeiro, at its shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The naming ceremony was performed by Sally Rosa, wife Subsea 7 CFO Ricardo Rosa. The Seven Cruzeiro is the last of four vessels in total, ordered by Subsea
Aker Solutions today notified employees in its maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) unit across Norway of necessary steps to reposition the business and enhance competitiveness in a market with unprecedented challenges. The company is streamlining the Norwegian MMO business to one regiona
DeepOcean Ghana Limited has secured charter extension for the vessel Rem Forza to work on Tullow Ghana TEN project, the company said on Friday. The subsea construction vessel will provide accommodation support, commissioning support, and construction and survey support. The first 6-months contract w
Search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have revealed another shipwreck following Fugro Equator’s discovery in May last year. Namely, according to ATSB report, on December 19, 2015, an anomalous sonar contact was identified in the course of the underwater search, with analysis s
Malaysia’s SapuraKencana has won contracts and extensions valued at approximately $117 million. The first is an eight-month contract for the provision of hook up & commissioning works for KNPG-B Phase II, Kinabalu Non Associated Gas (NAG) development project by THHE Fabricators. Under the contract S
On 1st January, SeaRoc Group moved into its fourth operational year on EDF Energy Renewables’ Teesside offshore wind farm. SeaRoc was appointed as the Principal Contractor in December 2012, replacing the residing Principal Contractor, and adopting full responsibility for the site on 1st January 2013
Paimpol-Bréhat tidal project, jointly developed by DCNS and EDF, could see the first OpenHydro’s tidal turbine installed next week. DCNS, parent company of OpenHydro, planned to install the first of the two 500 kW OpenHydro’s tidal turbines in December 2015, but due to unsuitable weather conditions
Tullow Jamaica Limited is set to undertake 2D seismic survey over 3,000 km area off Jamaica. The survey is a part of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) signed with Petroluem Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) in November 2014. Tullow has contracted BGP Challenger vessel to conduct the survey work on b
Offshore oil and gas contractor, Ezra Holdings, has seen red in the first quarter, ended November 30, 2015 (1Q2016), as the oil and gas downturn continues to impact activities in the global offshore marine and subsea industry. The Singapore-listed company recorded net loss of $53.7 million, on reven
