Neptune has been awarded a marine maintenance diving contract by Chevron Australia under a recently awarded Master Services Agreement (MSA). The contract, which is due to start imminently, includes the provision of diving services for the facilities maintenance of various Chevron Australia natural g
Fort William-based subsea training and testing facility, The Underwater Centre, has added the FMC Schilling TITAN 4 syllabus to its current ROV training suite. According to TUC, the course familiarises candidates with all major components of the TITAN T4 manipulator and provides system operation and
SBM Offshore has been awarded FPSO Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract following the completion of Pre-FEED work for Phase 1a of the Sea Lion development, the UK-based oil and gas exploration company, Rockhopper, said on Wednesday. Reportedly, the work on the discovery, located some 220
Singapore-based liftboats and service rigs provider Ezion Holdings Limited has secured an agreement to jointly market two service rigs being built by an undisclosed Chinese state-owned enterprise for offshore wind power installation projects. Ezion will also provide the technical expertise for the o
Statoil has awarded a contract for Johan Castberg Subsea Integration Pre-FEED and FEED project with options to IKM Ocean Design. The contract includes Pre-FEED and FEED of pipelines, risers, cables, tie-ins and related structures on the Johan Castberg field. Furthermore, detail design and follow-on
Norway’s GMC Maritime has secured a contract with subsea cable specialist Nexans in connection with the planned renewal of class and various upgrades of its cable laying vessel Nexans Skagerrak. The work scope, which is performed by GMC Maritime’s shipyard on Buøy in Stavanger, includes docking in c
Finland’s Cinia Group informed that the laying project of the Cinia C-Lion1 cable system is now completed as the cable reached its destination in Rostock, Germany. Started in Helsinki on October 12, 2015, the project took three months. According to the company , the new connection is planned to be c
MainOne informed that the Nigerian-Cameroon Submarine Cable System (NCSCS) connecting Lagos, Nigeria, Kribi and Cameroon has been completed and went live last month. The submarine cable installation, which started in June 2015 following a tripartite partnership between MainOne, The Ministry of Post
UK-based RMS Submarine Ltd. and Germany’s eos projekt GmbH have recently provided consultancy and client representative support on behalf of Vattenfall Wind Power UK for Kentish Flats Extension (KFE). RMS/eos were contracted between February and September 2015 and provided multiple services such as
Fugro’s Seafloor Drill 2 (SFD2) has completed a multi-site investigation across the North West Shelf of Australia, encountering variable calcareous sediments and delivering results to support a jack-up drilling campaign. The work was performed in water depths up to 112 metres and required in situ te
Technip has acquired a minority stake in Serimax, a Vallourec subsidiary and provider of offshore & onshore welding solutions, in order to achieve a strategic partnership in the domain of pipeline welding. The agreement would see these two companies combine their expertise and deploy the Serimax wel
Following a record final month, 2015 proved to be a “huge year” for wind power in Scotland, with wind turbines providing enough electricity to meet the electrical needs of 97% of Scottish households, according to the data gathered by WeatherEnergy and analyzed by WWF Scotland. Wind turbines generate
Following a record final month, 2015 proved to be a “huge year” for wind power in Scotland, with wind turbines providing enough electricity to meet the electrical needs of 97% of Scottish households, according to the data gathered by WeatherEnergy and analyzed by WWF Scotland. Wind turbines generate
Eni has started production from the Mpungi field in the West Hub Development Project, within Block 15/06 of the Angolan Deep Offshore, approximately 350 kilometers northwest of Luanda and 130 kilometers west of Soyo. Reportedly, the start-up of Mpungi field, which follows the West Hub’s first oil fr
