SLB has secured a contract with Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor under which it is set to deliver the front-end engineering design (FEED) for an all-electric subsea project in Norway’s waters. As part of the agreement, SLB will deliver the FEED of a 12-well, all-electric subsea production
Fugro has secured a contract to conduct site characterization for an offshore wind farm in Japan, which will be developed by a consortium including RWE, Mitsui, and Osaka Gas. The fieldwork started in May 2024 and is being performed from Fugro’s self-elevating platform (SEP), the Amberjack, and two
Aberdeen-based energy services company THREE60 Energy has acquired a local subsea engineering company with the aim of enhancing its capabilities. With the acquisition of Samphire Subsea, THREE60 said it expects to further enhance its lifecycle solutions offering by adding subsea engineering, operati
Greece’s Asso.subsea is set to begin boulder clearance and trenching next month for the interconnector that will link the power systems of Ireland and France together for the first time via subsea power cable. It was reported in May that Asso.subsea had joined forces with French cable maker Nexans t
Skyborn Renewables has started site investigations in Finland, at a location where the company plans to build the 2.5 GW Pooki offshore wind farm, an extension of the former Suurhiekka project which was also being developed by Skyborn (wpd at the time). The work started with bird and subsea acoustic
Mermaid Subsea Services (UK) has received a multi-year engineering, preparation, removal, and disposal (EPRD) wellhead severance (WHS) contract in the North Sea from Shell UK.
A multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV) owned by Olympic Subsea and on charter with DeepOcean has been equipped with cable lay and trenching equipment to be able to install and protect power cables for offshore renewables projects. The two Norwegian companies entered into a two-year time charter agree
Enagás, GRTgaz, and Teréga, in coordination with OGE, have signed a joint development agreement (JDA) for the BarMar hydrogen infrastructure.
Cyprus-headquartered seismic company SeaBird Exploration has secured a contract extension with a repeat client that will see its seismic research vessel Eagle Explorer working in the Western Hemisphere. SeaBird Exploration announced on May 21 that it had won an ocean bottom node (OBN) source contrac
The Government of Canada has passed into law the first four Clean Economy Investment Tax Credits (ITCs), set to attract investment, boost innovation, create jobs, and steer the nation’s economy towards achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
Italian cabling giant Prysmian has awarded a five-year contract to Norwegian shipping company Solstad Offshore for a subsea construction vessel (CSV) set to support the installation of power cable systems on the company’s projects. The CSV Normand Ocean will be on a firm contract with Prysmian which
Amid the global energy transition, offshore survey and inspection companies are working on decarbonizing – but the industry is also going through a transition of its own. Bureau Veritas, Terradepth and Sulmara are among a number of offshore survey companies that are increasingly using autonomous or
A consortium of Boskalis and Orient Cable (NBOS) has completed the pull-in and burial of the second export cable for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust West Beta offshore grid connection at the landfall location in Velsen-Noord, the Netherlands. The 700 MW grid connection will link the offshore wind farm that
Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor has awarded compatriot Ocean Installer with an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract to deliver a subsea scope for its huge oil and natural gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Equinor and its partners have
