Technip and its consortium partner China Offshore Oil Engineering Company (COOEC) have been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract by China National Offshore Oil Corporation Limited (CNOOC Ltd.) for two tension leg platforms (TLPs) for the Liuhua 11-1 and 16-2 joint development proje
Ezra’s subsea services division, EMAS AMC, has secured multiple new contracts from various oil and energy companies worth approximately US$55 million. Scope of work includes project support, inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR), subsea removal work of pipelines and structures, installation of bu
A Dutch offshore and subsea contractor, Bluestream, has acquired the offshore division of Aquatech Diving BV in Joure (NL). According to the company’s social media, the offshore management, diving and ROV assets of Aquatech Diving BV, acquired by Bluestream, will be integrated in the Bluestream orga
A specialist company for the provision of personnel exclusively in the offshore wind industry has been launched in Oldenburg. Convent offshore GmbH yesterday said that it wants to set new standards in personnel service for the installation, repair and maintenance of offshore wind farms. The concept
TGS has signed a joint venture agreement with Dolphin Geophysical to acquire 4,500 km2 3D multi-client seismic survey over the western part of the Hammerfest Basin in the Barents Sea. The survey will provide industry with broadband data over APA acreage not previously covered by modern MC 3D. Succes
OpenHydro Technology Canada will receive USD 5.173 mln (CAD 6.353 mln) for the Bay of Fundy Tidal Stream Project. The funding is provided though Sustainable Development Technology Canada’s (SDTC) SD Tech Fund. Through a joint venture, Cape Sharp Tidal formed by Emera and OpenHydro, the consortium ai
DONG Energy informed that the first foundation has been successfully installed at the Gode Wind Offshore Wind Farm in the German North Sea. With this project, DONG Energy is building Germany’s biggest offshore wind farm 45km from the mainland and around 33km from the islands Juist and Norderney. Tri
Nautronix has reported that the NASNet array in Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field is fully operational and awaiting first field construction. Last year Nautronix secured an order with Subsea 7 to supply 16 NASNet stations along with a wet-stored spare station and three additional MTrx beacons to provid
Bourbon SA has been placed under formal investigation following the arrest and investigation of its former tax manager under suspicion of bribery of foreign public officials. Namely, Bourbon’s former tax manager was arrested at the airport of Marseille-Provence while he was returning from Africa in
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) informed that AS Norske Shell has been given green light to use Island Constructor for activities at well 6407/09-A-555-H on the Draugen field. Draugen is an oil field in the Norwegian Sea in 250 metres of water. The field has been developed using a fixed
Swiber Holdings has secured a US$133 million contract, the third award in India in the last three months, for Engineering, Procurement, Installation and Construction (EPIC) services. The project by the same national oil company which awarded Swiber two major contracts in February and March, involves
Fugro has been hired by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, to execute the geotechnical site investigation and geological modelling of sites I and II of the future Borssele wind farm park. The 1,400MW wind farm zone is located off the Zealand coast at the sou
OpenHydro is planning to deploy two 2 MW tidal turbines in the Bay of Fundy, Canada in Q3 2015. Through a joint venture, Cape Sharp Tidal, formed by Emera and OpenHydro, the company aims to deploy 4 MW grid connected tidal array that could power an estimated 1.000 homes in Nova Scotia, Canada. Accor
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited has signed a Collaboration Agreement with Fundación Chile (FCH) to collaborate on identifying a development pathway for commercial wave energy projects in Chile. Carnegie has signed a Collaboration Agreement with Fundación Chile to assess the potent
