The N.C. Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources’ Division of Coastal Management (DCM) has received the first consistency submissions for seismic surveying in the Atlantic Ocean associated with oil and gas resource development offshore North Carolina. Spectrum Geo, Inc. and GX Technology are prop
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 26 – February 01). The subsea firm DeepOcean UK has confirmed it is entering into a statutory period of redundancy consultation with a number of its UK staff, based in its operations in the No
50 specialists in deep-sea ecology, marine mining and deep-sea observation from 25 European research institutions met this week at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel to start the three-year research project “JPI Oceans Ecological aspects of deep-sea mining”. It aims at investigating
As part of the preparations for the cable laying campaign MMT has completed a cable crossings survey for Kraftnät Åland. The planned submarine cable is 152 km long, and will be laid from Naantali, Finland to Juvik, Åland. The survey was planned based on a desktop survey done by MMT during the summer
Nautilus Minerals has announced that the mechanical and hydraulic assembly of its second of three Seafloor Production Tools (SPTs), the Collecting Machine, has been completed at Soil Machine Dynamics’ facility at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and the commissioning of the Collecting Machine systems has now
Hydrex was contacted to install a doubler plate over a crack in flat bottom plating of one of the water ballast tanks of a 225-meter bulk carrier during her stop in Yeosu, South Korea. Shortly after arriving at the location, Hydrex diver/technicians performed an underwater inspection to make a full
Siemens has handed over the first North Sea grid connection, BorWin2, to its customer TenneT. The German-Dutch transmission grid operator has accepted the project following successful completion of test runs by Siemens. The grid connection is therefore now in commercial operation. The offshore platf
Ezra’s flagship, Lewek Constellation, the subsea construction vessel, is on track to turn fully operational by March 2015. The Group’s ice-classed, DP3 multi-lay construction vessel with heavy lift capabilities is currently being finalized in front of the Huisman Schiedam quayside in the Netherlands
Ezra Holdings’ Subsea Services division, EMAS AMC, has secured multiple contracts from various energy companies valued at more than US$65 million (including options). Scope of work includes project management, engineering, and transportation and installation works for a floating production storage o
A Subsea 7 Joint Venture company, Seaway Heavy Lifting, has successfully delivered an installation project of four topsides and a jacket for Protexa/Pemex in the Bay of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico. The company used its 183 meters long crane vessel Oleg Strashnov, with 5000-mt fully revolving crane, to
DNV GL has been selected by Wintershall Norge AS as the sole supplier for the combined role of Independent Verification Body (IVB) and Third Party Design Verification scope for the subsea, umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) part of the Maria field development project. The contract is expected t
Dubai based seismic contractor, Polarcus, has announced that Hege Sjo will resign from the Board of Directors effective February 2, 2015. Accoring to the company, Sjo has accepted an appointment as Deputy Director General in the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, and is therefore u
A Hydrex diver/technician team was mobilized to Le Havre, France to perform an emergency rudder repair operation of a 250-meter crude oil tanker. After arriving, the Hydrex team performed a detailed inspection of the rudder. This revealed that the rudder pintle needed to be removed to perform a perm
The Petroleum Safety Authority has given Wintershall Norge AS consent to use the facilities on the Vega field in connection with the company’s taking over of the operatorship from Statoil. A change of operator entails an application for consent to use the facilities. The consent is an expression of
