Norwegian vessel owner DOF Group has secured a new long-term contract with Brazilian oil and gas giant, Petrobras, for its pipelay support vessel (PLSV), as well as an extension of the contract for the PLSV Skandi Açu.
Korean company LS Marine Solution and Taiwan’s Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which will see LS Marine chartering a service operations vessel (SOV) from DFO and participating in offshore wind project bidding in South Korea. According to LS Marine Solut
N-Sea Group’s recently launched dedicated subsea cable repair and installation vessel has completed its first cable replacement project and is carrying out another one for the same client. N-Sea and its partner Neptune Marine Service converted the anchored barge NP-459 into a dedicated cable repair
The high-voltage direct current (HVDC) underwater and underground power cable project that will connect the Canadian border and New York has celebrated another construction milestone as cables have been floated across the U.S.-Canadian border marking the official start of marine installation work in
The Crown Estate has invited proposals from the pre-qualified bidders in the Round 5 seabed leasing process which will award up to 4.5 GW of floating wind capacity in the Celtic Sea. Around the same time, National Grid ESO issued a recommended network design to connect the upcoming floating wind far
Three UK companies have deployed three subsea battery-powered control systems offshore Canada that are said to maintain the integrity of the subsea electrical infrastructure when topside electrical power is unavailable.
The UK-Belgium joint venture established last year has begun offshore operations and has already passed milestones for a project in Senegal that is part of a program that aims to revolutionize the country’s power infrastructure and provide sustainable electricity to millions of people. Under a $200
UK energy market regulator Ofgem has selected what is set to become Great Britain’s longest-ever subsea connection as the first project to proceed under its fast-track process and to receive a £3.4 billion funding package. Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) is the first of 26 projects to complete the fast-
McDermott is in charge of work at Shell’s undeveloped natural gas project off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago.
Perth-headquartered InCapture has secured a permit for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) assessment project on the North West Shelf in Australia, aiming to launch a fully operational CCS project by the early 2030s. The greenhouse gas assessment (GHG) permit G-15-AP spans an area of over 6,500 km2 a
A multibeam echosounder (MBES) geophysical survey of the Dogger Bank D offshore wind site, using several uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), is scheduled to start on August 13. According to information in the project’s Notice to Mariners, XOCEAN will deploy multiple USVs to survey the wind turbine arra
U.S.-based developer of subsea autonomous robotic systems and software Nauticus Robotics has entered into a partnership with Florida Atlantic University (FAU) for the further testing of its flagship underwater vehicle Aquanaut Mark 2. The partners will perform vehicle development testing in protecte
U.S. offshore engineering and construction player McDermott and the integrated oil and gas training institute in Malaysia, TAS Institute of Oil and Gas (TAS), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation on research and development, training, capacity building, and institutional d
Houston-based subsea energy equipment and services specialist Koil Energy Solutions, formerly known as Deep Down, has secured a contract deemed as significant that will take the company to a new region. Koil Energy Solutions is set to deliver bend stiffener latchers (BSL), a solution designed to sec
