Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (November 23 – November 29). Wallsend-based manufacturer of subsea vehicle systems, Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD), will cut 70 to 80 jobs across its business, the company said Wednesday. The news comes a
Fugro has won a contract with Ophir Equatorial Guinea (Block R) for the provision of survey services for the development of large scale assets and infrastructure offshore Equatorial Guinea. Under the contract, Fugro will deploy three of its specialist vessels Fugro Searcher, Fugro Scout and Fugro Fr
Kyushu Electric Power on Friday said it has signed a liquefied natural gas sales and purchase agreement with Nippon Gas.
Malaysia’s Muhibbah Engineering has been awarded a contract for the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) of a wellhead platform for the Ophir oil field offshore Peninsular Malaysia. The contract has been awarded by Ophir Production, a joint venture company t
The Government of Nova Scotia will keep the Georges Bank area in the Atlantic Ocean off limits for oil and gas drilling at least until 2023. The Canadian province’s government said that the drilling moratorium would be extended till December 31, 2022, with possible further extension in 10-year incre
Global Marine Systems, the UK based subsea cable route design, installation and maintenance specialist, has secured a contract from Ocean Networks Canada, to upgrade the fibre-optic cables serving the Neptune observatory off the west coast of Canada. The subsea infrastructure of Neptune comprises an
Amsterdam-based Titan LNG signed a partnership agreement with Osomo Projects to build the first BioLNG production facility in Germany.
Airborne Oil & Gas has been awarded contract by a West African operator for the supply of a composite downline, jumpers and deployment system for acid stimulation. Airborne Oil and Gas’s Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP) technology was selected as the preferred solution for injecting large volumes
Prosafe, the operator of semi-submersible accommodation rigs, is considering a delay in delivery of its newbuild accommodation rig being built by Jurong Shipyard. Prosafe said on Thursday it has agreed with Singapore’s Jurong Shipyard to a flexible delivery of the Safe Zephyrus accommodation rig. Ac
Shell on Thursday contracted Sodexo Australia to provide offshore facilities management services for the Prelude Floating LNG facilities.
Wyong Shire Council decided at the November 25th meeting to extend dredging of the Entrance Channel for another week. The council resolved, as a matter of urgency, to extend the dredging, allowing further renourishment of the Entrance Beach. Council’s Mayor, Doug Eaton said: “This is an important, i
San Diego-based Scripps Institution of Oceanography has sold its purpose built survey vessel ‘New Horizon’ to an undisclosed private client, Marcon International informed earlier this week. The ‘New Horizon’ was designed in 1965 in a study to develop a new class of research ships to replace the R/V
Aker Solutions won a framework agreement to provide maintenance and modifications services at BP-operated oil and gas fields offshore Norway. The contract has a fixed period of five years valued at as much as NOK 3.2 billion. It also contains options to extend the agreement by as many as four years.
A long-term frame agreement has been signed between SSAB and ESL Shipping under which the latter will order two LNG-fueled large bulk carriers for a total investment value of approximately EUR 60 million.
