Prysmian Group has chartered Global Marine Systems’ cable-laying vessel, the C.S. Sovereign, from mid-2016 into early 2017 for work on the Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. The vessel will install inter array cables at the offshore wind farm that is currently estimated to be providing p
Subsea World News has gathered all the highlights to bring you a summarized version of the most popular articles from the previous month. The month of August has seen companies adjusting to tough market environment with further workforce reductions, shipowners laying-up vessels and some major deals
NEC Corporation signed a contract with Telekom Malaysia Berhad and TT dotCom Sdn Bhd to construct the Sistem Kabel Rakyat 1 Malaysia (SKR1M), an optical submarine cable system that will connect Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. SKR1M, a 100 Gb/s optical fiber submarine cable system measuring a
Nautilus Minerals and Tree C Technology B.V. have signed a contract for the supply of a Simulator and a Mining Site Monitoring System for the world’s first Seafloor Production System. Delivery is scheduled for the first half of 2017. The simulator will facilitate the training of the operators of the
The placement of rock armour on the new Cowes Breakwater is underway and a weekly notice of proposed barge arrivals and an unloading timetable will be published on the CHC website. It is expected that the rock barge DN146 will be on station in the breakwater Exclusion Zone for around 18 hours at a t
ENAP of Chile said it has extended the gas supply deal with Colbun for the supply of natural gas for further three years.
Port Metro Vancouver is continuing field studies as part of ongoing environmental and technical work for the Container Capacity Improvement Program. The Improvement Program was announced in 2011, and is Port Metro Vancouver’s long-term strategy to ensure the timely delivery of required infrastructur
Nexans’ subsea cables will power the new super complex at the heart of the future development of the Nasr oil field, offshore from Abu Dhabi in the UAE. This follows the award of a contract worth around € 90 millions by the EPC contractor, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), for Nexans to supply high vo
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has been awarded the Engineering, Procurement & Construction contract from Maersk Oil North Sea UK for the Culzean jackets for both the central processing facilities platform and the utility & living quarter platform. This contract is the second HFG has won for the Cu
LNG Gorskaya of Russia informed it has awarded a contract to Italian engineering corporation Nuovo Pignone, a subsidiary of the GE Oil & Gas, for the production and supply of main equipment for the construction the country’s first floating liquefaction project.
Egyptian Natural Gas Holding company has reportedly selected the winners of a four cargo supply tender it had issued two weeks ago.
McLaughlin & Harvey has just completed redevelopment works at Nigg South Quay in Cromarty Firth. The project included design and construction of a new facility for the inspection, repair and maintenance of oil rigs and FPSOs. Works also included reconstruction of approximately 1km of combi-pile quay
Xodus Group has been awarded a contract with Nexen Petroleum U.K. Limited to provide Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) services in support of the decommissioning of the Ettrick and Blackbird fields in the central North Sea. The workscope will assess the best practice decommissioning methods fo
Rana Diving, a provider of underwater services to the oil and gas industry, has been awarded a saturation diving contract by Italy’s Saipem. The contract is for the saturation diving activities for the tie-ins at new installed platform Bonaccia North West in the Adriatic Sea. According to the compan
