Norway’s Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has inked a contract extension worth approximately USD 7 million with an undisclosed oil company in Malaysia. As announced on August 7, 2015, EMGS received a letter of award for a contract worth approximately USD 4.2 million for 3D EM data acquisition over
Royal Navy minehunters and their US counterparts have surveyed the seabed for mines more than 200 nautical miles away from their Bahraini base using a range of autonomous and unmanned systems. The Task Group was made up of HMS Shoreham and Bangor, the USS Devestator and Gladiator as well as Royal Fl
FMC Technologies has seen its third quarter 2015 net income slashed more than half from the prior-year quarter primarily due to the continued decline in the North American land market and the negative impact of the strengthening U.S. dollar in its subsea technologies segment. For the Q3 2015, the Ho
Wave Energy Scotland (WES), a subsidiary of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), has announced a £720,000 partnership expected to demonstrate wave energy converters as a means of powering offshore aquaculture installations. According to WES, Albatern has teamed up with Marine Harvest, a seafood c
Three Irish marine energy companies have received €3.5 million of government funding for the development and testing of new ocean energy technologies. The companies that received the funding from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) are Ocean Energy, SeaPower and GKinetic. The company
The world’s first subsea gas compression system went on stream September 17 at the Statoil-operated Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea. The video above shows the official opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Aker Solutions-built Åsgard subsea gas compression plant. Aker Solutions in December 2
Boskalis Subsea Services has opened an office in Aberdeen dedicated to focus on growing business in the UK sector in the offshore and renewable industry. Boskalis Subsea Services provides turn-key air/sat diving, and ROV interventions with their two dedicated Diving Support Vessels “Protea and Const
DNV GL has secured a contract to provide in-service verification and classification services to a range of facilities at the Ichthys LNG project in Australia. DNV GL has provided vendor inspection, verification and offshore classification support to the USD 34 billion venture since 2012. This latest
Finnish wave energy developer Wello has begun the testing of its Penguin II wave energy converter off Canary Islands, Spain. According to Wello, the testing of the 1:5 scaled device is expected to last for three months, although the length of the trials might be modified following the obtained resul
Offshore services player, Helix Energy Solutions, has seen its net income slide to $9.9 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2015 compared to net income of $75.6 million, or $0.71 per diluted share, for the same period in 2014. Nevertheless, the Houston-based company bounced
The BlueTEC tidal energy platform has gone full circle, from drawing to full-scale deployed and grid-connected device, in just 6 months, according to Bluewater, one of the developers behind the Texel Tidal project. The platform was launched earlier this year off Texel island, the Netherlands, and is
A fault in subsea cable has shut down DONG Energy’s Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farm, Energinet.dk informed. Transmission operator of Horns Rev 2, Energinet.dk, said that the error on the cable connecting the wind farm to land occured on October 19 at 01:56. As soon as the exact location of the fault
Ashtead Technology has been supporting attempts to explore the wreckage of the USS Macon, the United States Navy’s last flying aircraft that sunk to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Designed for long-range scouting, the airship crashed off the coast of California in 1935 when it was returning to the
JASCO Applied Sciences, under subcontract to Tetra Tech, is providing underwater acoustic measurement and monitoring services to Deepwater Wind during the installation of the Block Island offshore wind farm. JASCO is conducting field data acquisition and subsequent analysis and interpretation for sh
