Trendsetter Engineering has been awarded a contract from an undisclosed client to design, manufacture and test, reportedly, the industry’s first 20,000 psi valve-based capping stack. According to the company, this capping stack will be capable of containing high pressure, high temperature subsea oil
The first offshore construction season is now complete for America’s first offshore wind farm, with all five steel jacket foundations fully installed at the Block Island Wind Farm site. Construction crews installed the last deck platform on November 21. All of the construction and crew vessels assoc
Wirral Council has approved plans for a new marine operations and maintenance facility to be built by DONG Energy at Kings Wharf in Seacombe. The has welcomed the fact that more than 40 skilled jobs will be created at the new facility, which will provide day-to-day monitoring, servicing, maintenance
Amplus Energy Services, an Aberdeen-based floating production solutions firm, has agreed a new venture with Technip in the UK to develop marginal fields in the North Sea. With much of the remaining reserves inaccessible using existing infrastructure, the two firms have joined forces using their indi
The new Colchester head office of offshore wind services provider CWind Ltd was officially opened by Harwich and North Essex MP Bernard Jenkin last week. CWind moved to its new offices in the APEX 12 Business Park north of Colchester after outgrowing its previous premises in Westside, now occupying
McDermott International has been awarded a sizeable transport and installation contract by an upstream oil and gas operator for a project offshore Trinidad, West Indies. The contract award includes the transport and installation of a 1,000-ton deck and 1,600-ton jacket. It also covers the onshore fa
SeaRoc Group has appointed that Rupert Guthrie as Senior HSE Advisor at the company’s head office in Chichester, West Sussex. As Senior HSEQ Advisor, Rupert will be responsible for HSE management, implementation and monitoring of HSE management systems across all elements of offshore wind farm proje
Fugro has been awarded a three-year contract by Norwegian seismic player PGS for the provision of precise satellite positioning systems for its entire seismic vessel fleet. According to the company, Fugro will supply PGS vessels with a number of completely independent Global Navigation Satellite Sys
Malaysia’s SapuraKencana has been awarded contracts and extensions with a combined value of approximately USD 72 million (approximately RM300 million). The first contract is for the provision of engineering, procurement, construction & commissioning (EPCC) for SIPROD on D35DP-B Project by Roc Oil. T
Atlantis Resources has entered into collaboration agreement with JDR Cable Systems to develop subsea cabling solutions for tidal energy sector.
Wood Group has won a new, multi-year contract with ConocoPhillips in Australia. Effective immediately, Wood Group PSN will deliver brownfield engineering services to the Bayu-Undan field located south west of Timor-Leste and the Darwin liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Wickham Point, Darwin. Cont
SPT Offshore has received the Letter of Intent (LOI) for the detailed design of the suction pile foundation, design supervision of the jacket and full transportation and installation (T&I) of the Ophir wellhead platform (WHP) from Muhibbah Engineering (M) Bhd. MEB Ophir Muhibbah is the EPCIC contrac
The global wind turbine O&M market stood at USD 9.3 billion in 2014 and is likely to reach USD 20.6 billion by 2023, expanding at a CAGR of 8.8% between 2015 and 2023, according to a new report. Transparency Market Research has released a new market report titled “Wind Turbine Operations and Mainten
Subsea 7 will provide decommissioning services for the second phase of Centrica’s Rose and Stamford gas field decommissioning programmes, located in the southern North Sea. This project is the latest call-off contract under a partnership frame agreement signed in 2005. Subsea 7 has partnership frame
