Saipem’s pipelay vessel Castorone is on its way to the Black Sea where it will perform offshore pipeline installation for the second phase of Türkiye’s largest natural gas field. On its way to the Sakarya project, Castorone crossed the Dardanelles Strait early on December 26, covering a distance of
Estonia’s Defense Forces launched a naval operation early today to protect the Estlink 1 interconnector between Estonia and Finland as a response to the damage that occurred on the day of Christmas on Eastlink 2. Finland’s transmission system operator (TSO) Fingrid reported to the authorities on Dec
France-based Sercel, a designer and manufacturer of high-tech solutions for subsurface exploration and part of Viridien, has secured a contract with a marine geophysical company to deploy its new marine seismic source in the Gulf of Mexico. Sercel will deploy its Tuned Pulse Source (TPS) and related
The Dutch/German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has selected NKT to provide high-voltage direct current (HVDC) onshore and offshore power cable systems for two projects that are part of TenneT’s 2 GW program. The contracts, valued at approximately €1 billion, are set to be completed betwe
A pre-installation survey at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site is scheduled to begin in early January 2025, following subsea boulder clearance and scour protection work that was carried out in November 2024 and marked the start of offshore construction work. The survey, which will be per
A 300 MW expansion to the existing 600 MW Xuwen offshore wind farm in Zhanjiang, China, developed by State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC), has started commercial operation. The 600 MW Xuwen offshore wind farm was built in two phases consisting of a total of 94 wind turbines. The first of 47 Min
The Finnish authorities are investigating the sudden power outage at the Estlink 2 interconnector between Finland and Estonia that occurred yesterday, December 25, the country’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said. Finland’s transmission system operator (TSO) Fingrid reported to the authorities the pos
Santos has received the thumbs-up for its revised environment plan (EP) from the country’s offshore regulator, which will enable it to bring online a new well off the coast of Australia to bolster gas production from existing assets.
Joint venture partners Viridien, previously known as CGG, and TGS have completed the multi-client Sleipner ocean bottom node (OBN) survey, as well as delivered the final processed data expected to be valuable to explorers operating in the area for years to come. The survey, the second of two dense m
Scottish startup The Carbon Removers has secured what it says is a landmark deal for CO2 storage as part of Project Greensand in the Danish North Sea. The Carbon Removers announced the agreement on December 10 to permanently sequester 50,000 tonnes of CO2 per year in a depleted oil field, 1,800 mete
FORCE Technology Norway and Singapore’s Asia Offshore Solutions (AOS) have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at delivering enhanced structural monitoring, subsea inspection, and cathodic protection services to Australia’s offshore sector. Under the agreement, signed in November 2024, AOS is
The Dutch/German offshore transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has awarded ABL a contract to provide marine warranty survey services for the installation of three 2 GW export cable systems in the Netherlands. Under the contract, ABL will work on the IJmuiden Ver Beta, IJmuiden Ver Gamma, and Ne
Japanese construction company Toyo Construction has purchased a trenching remotely operated vehicle (ROV) from underwater technology and services company SMD that will be deployed in the Japanese offshore wind sector. The ROV will form part of Toyo’s expanding fleet of assets, as the company had als
U.S.-headquartered oilfield services giant Halliburton is set to purchase Optime Subsea, a Norwegian provider of subsea solutions for the oil & gas industry, following the signature of a definitive agreement. According to Optime Subsea, the acquisition will integrate its umbilical-less technology in
