Eni Norge AS has received consent for manned underwater operations connected with the Goliat facility. Eni Norge AS (Eni) is the operator of the Goliat field, which is located on the Tromsøflaket bank around 85 km north-west of Hammerfest. The field is being developed using a floating production, st
The NCP consortium, comprised of China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, KT Corporation, Microsoft, SoftBank Mobile Corp, and TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company, announced that the New Cross Pacific (NCP) Cable Network has started construction. Spanning more than 13,000 k
Xtracta wave energy device uses hybrid float energy extraction/PTO system to produce electricity from waves. The Xtracta design is a Hybrid Attenuator – point absorber where sequential energy pulses provided by an attenuator are combined with a wide capture width of the device. The device comprises
Subsea Riser Products (SRP), an Acteon company and part of its risers and moorings business, has completed the third and final installation using the SRP Rocksteady mooring connector for the Perth Wave Energy demonstration project, offshore Western Australia. Summarising the original sourcing decisi
CGG announced a western extension of the Horda BroadSeisTM-BroadSourceTM 3D multi-client program it began acquiring in the Northern North Sea offshore Norway in 2014. The extension, known as Tampen, is located in the Northern Viking Graben offshore Norway and the UK and is expected to be completed i
Rocksteady mooring connector has been operating for more than six months as part of the Perth Wave Energy Project. Rocksteady mooring connector was provided for the wave project by Subsea Riser Products (SRP). Rocksteady is an auto-latching subsea structural connector with a locking/preload mechanis
Sonomatic, a provider of automated ultrasonic subsea inspection, has successfully deployed its accurate corrosion mapping approach at a depth of 1435 m, setting a new benchmark for depth with this technique. As the company informs, the inspection was carried out using the ROV-iT, a ROV-deployed ultr
Subsea 7 has informed that a programme of cost reduction measures will be implemented including a re-sizing of the fleet and workforce, and the restructuring of its corporate organisation. According to the company’s filing to Oslo Stock Exchange, this decision comes in view of the difficult business
James Fisher has purchased the assets and intellectual property rights of X-Subsea for a total consideration of £14.8m. Headquartered in Aberdeen, X-Subsea went into administration on April 27 2015 following the collapse of its Norwegian parent company Reef Subsea AS. X-Subsea, a designer and operat
GEPC’s engineers are finalizing the construction of the subsea converter that will be used for Paimpol-Bréhat tidal project. The subsea converter consists of steel housing that is 9 m long, 5 m wide and 4 m high. The converter will enclose all the electrotechnical equipment required for electrical c
Damen has delivered a Multi Cat 2613 vessel used for tidal energy projects to Scotland-based chartering company Scotmarine. The 50-tonne bollard pull vessel has a large crane and will replace the stock vessel Multi Cat Orcadia Scotmarine purchased three years ago. The hull of the new vessel was in s
After seven months of working in the North Sea, Tidal Transit’s Kitty Petra personnel transfer vessel (PVT) will be heading west in May 2015 to join her sister vessel Tia Elizabeth working on the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm, which is situated 8 miles off the North Wales coast. Gwynt y Môr Offshor
Moventas has been chosen to develop tidal turbines’ gearboxes that will be used by Alstom for the Raz Blanchard pilot tidal farm in France. Moventas, a Finnish-based technology developer, is currently in the process of designing customer-specific modified gearboxes for Alstom’s Oceade 18 tidal turbi
McDermott has reported first quarter 2015 net loss of $14.5 million, or $0.06 per fully diluted share including restructuring charges, compared to a net loss of $46.5 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, in the prior-year quarter. Net of restructuring charges, the first quarter 2015 loss would have
