UK’s remote robotics company HonuWorx is planning to develop a fleet of autonomous submarines that will perform services across the oil & gas, offshore wind, and defense sectors, targeting 50 units in the long term. In what the company describes as an industry-first, HonuWorx deployed a remotely ope
Oriol Colomés Gené, Assistant Professor at Technische Universiteit Delft in Offshore Engineering, has received the NWO Vidi grant for the DigiOcean4Solar project to develop a first-of-its-kind digital ocean model designed to assess floating solar farms. DigiOcean4Solar, short for a Digital Ocean en
France-based geophysical services company Viridien, formerly known as CGG, and American oilfield services company SLB have partnered for the first time in Australia to gather data into the exploration and carbon storage potential of the Bonaparte Basin. Viridien reported on October 24 that the partn
Transocean has got hold of a new batch of contracts and extensions in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, India, Norway, and Australia for six floaters, encompassing four drillships and two semi-submersible rigs.
French tidal energy company HydroQuest and tidal energy developer Normandie Hydroliennes have secured €51 million in Innovation Fund grants to advance two tidal energy projects in France’s Raz Blanchard. The funding, awarded under the Innovation Fund’s 2023 call, emphasizes the role of European sup
Norwegian marine geoscience and technology company Shearwater GeoServices has secured its second contract with French energy giant TotalEnergies for a project offshore Angola. The project will include a three-month deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) survey covering the Golfinho and Cameia fields, loc
The first floating solars for the Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) offshore solar farm have arrived at the Port of Amsterdam, set for installation at the Dutch CrossWind HKN offshore wind farm. Planned for a 2025 installation, the Hollandse Kust Noord solar farm is expected to be what the company describe
Shelf Drilling has now received the Norwegian offshore safety regulator’s stamp of approval after the watchdog’s initial rejection of its application to obtain an acknowledgment of compliance (AoC) for one of its jack-up rigs, which is gearing up for work on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) wit
UK-based Inyanga Marine Energy Group has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the expansion of its patented tidal energy technology, HydroWing, after landing $53 million in major tidal energy projects. According to Inyanga Marine Energy, the crowdfunding round, launched in partnership with Cr
In a little more than five years, renewable energy targets set for 2030 will come knocking on the door. Whether they will be reached, missed or overshot, depends on multiple factors, most of which concern policymakers and the energy sector itself. At the end of 2023, the EU increased the binding ren
Norway-based energy data and intelligence company TGS has reported record-high ocean bottom node (OBN) contract activity in the third quarter of 2024, the first quarter including PGS, with the utilization of its streamer fleet improving on high bid activity. In Q3 2024, TGS said that the activity le
UK-headquartered subsea equipment rental and solutions provider Ashtead Technology has signed an agreement with Acteon Group to acquire Seatronics and J2 Subsea for £63 million (approximately $81.6 million), expanding its subsea survey and robotics rental portfolio by 30%. The acquisition expands A
Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) Calypso has begun installing cables at its first offshore wind project, marking its official debut. Calypso’s first project is RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm, being constructed on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometers from the
Through its Construction Technology Center, Spanish company ACCIONA has unveiled a new circular, eco-friendly breakwater concept for floating solar systems as part of the EU-funded SUREWAVE project. This breakwater is designed to shield offshore floating photovoltaic (FPV) systems from harsh sea con
