Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Italy’s Tiscali to deploy a 100G terrestrial optical backbone infrastructure and upgrade existing submarine links. The new agile optical networking solution, using its 1830 Photonic Service Switch platform will allow Tiscali to increase both data capacity and data
Ardent, the recent merger of Titan and Svitzer Salvage and Ardentia Marine, a salvage and diving company based in Spain have been awarded the contract to remove oil from the sunken fishing trawler “Oleg Naydenov” off the coast of Gran Canaria, Spain. On the 11th of April, the vessel sustained a fire
Due to growing demand for wind energy optimisation projects in the UK, Uptime Engineering has established a new base in Bristol, led by Staffan Lindahl. Lindahl has been working in the wind industry for nearly 10 years in the field of performance analysis and asset optimisation. He will coordinate p
JBA Consulting, an environmental engineering company, is supporting Tidal Lagoon Power in the development of Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project. JBA Consulting is supporting the project in the preparation of evidence for the discharge of the environmental Development Consent Order (DCO) and Marine Lic
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has issued an order to Statoil following audits at Oseberg B and Gullfaks C. Namely, between November 10, 2014 and January 29, 2015, the PSA conducted audits at Oseberg B and Gullfaks C. The audits followed up and verified the auditing performed in 2013 re
Coastal Chariot multi-purpose support vessel will be used for the installation of BlueTec floating tidal platform off Texel island, the Netherlands. According to Acta Marine, the company has coincided the installation process with Van Oord Offshore. The Coastal Chariot will tow and hook-up BlueTec t
The following video shows a Norwegian subsea contractor, Ocean Installer, mobilising its vessel Normand Vision for riser replacement job at the Troll B platform June 2015. In March this year, Ocean Installer signed amendments with Statoil for umbilical marine installation at the Visund field and for
MMT (Sweden) has been awarded a contract for the world’s longest HVDC route survey for the UK-Iceland Interconnector by Atlantic Superconnection Corporation (ASC). MMT will provide bathymetric and geophysical mapping along the entire route corridor, between Iceland to England, the company said. MMT
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Statoil consent to use pipelines and subsea production facilities at Gullfaks Sør. Gullfaks Sør is located to the south of Gullfaks in the northern part of the North Sea. It has been developed with a total of 12 subsea templates tied back to the
Ezra’s subsea division, EMAS AMC, has clinched several global contracts, including one for rigid pipelay on the Aviat field development in the UK North Sea, under the auspices of the frame agreement the company signed with Apache in the North Sea, bringing the total contract value to more than US$11
TGS announces a new multi-client 3D survey offshore Eastern Canada, with plans to acquire approximately 6,000 sq. km of seismic data. The survey is in partnership with PGS. The survey will be acquired utilizing the PGS GeoStreamer® technology in two areas; Eastern Newfoundland Orphan Basin and South
Alam Maritim Resources Berhad informed that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Alam Maritim (M) Sdn Bhd, has recently entered into a subcontract with Petronas Floating LNG 1 (L) Ltd (PFLL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Petroliam Nasional Berhad. According to Alam Maritim, the works, awarded by PFLL, are f
Providence Resources announced that Capricorn Ireland Limited has recently completed an initial assessment of the Paleocene within FEL 1/14 using the newly-acquired 2014 Ruadhan (previously referred to as “Spanish Point South”) 3D seismic survey. This interpretation has demonstrated the presence of
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (June 08 – June 14). Three more tendons on the Chevron’s Big Foot tension-leg platform (TLP) have sunk, causing an indefinite delay to the start of the project. As Reuters reports, nine of sixteen tend
