Norway’s Enhanced Drilling has announced a new five-year contract with Equinor, including the use of all Enhanced Drilling technologies. This frame agreement, which took effect on February 1, 2024, is the first of its kind for Enhanced Drilling. It is for operations on the Norwegian continental shel
Norway-headquartered DOF Group has been awarded a contract to repair an export cable for an offshore wind farm in the Southern North Sea. The project, awarded by an international energy operator, includes the retrieval of the damaged cable and termination, installation, trenching, and commissioning
Norwegian seismic company PGS has signed an agreement with Shell for its cloud-based digital asset management solution designed specifically for seismic data, which is set to enable the UK-headquartered energy giant to streamline access to seismic data and accelerate workflows. This Data OnDemand Ag
Baker Hughes has secured a contract with Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras for integrated well construction services for a large deepwater field, located in Brazil’s pre-salt Santos Basin. The integrated services project is set to start in the first half of 2025 and will include dril
UK’s EnergyPathways has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with MCS Subsea Solutions (MCS) and Mermaid Subsea Services related to negotiating the provision of subsea FEED services for its field in the UK Irish Sea. The MoU concerns negotiating the provision of subsea FEED engineering, projec
Thermoplastic composite pipes (TCP) have shown exceptionally low hydrogen permeation values, demonstrating technical suitability for high-pressure hydrogen service, Dutch TCP producer Strohm reported following a TCP hydrogen testing program. Strohm recently completed an extensive six-month hydrogen
Scottish subsea specialist Sulmara is set to repurpose an emergency response rescue vessel (ERRV) into a multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV) with the addition of equipment to suit the renewables market. Sulmara has signed a three-year deal with Atlantic Offshore to charter the 67-meter DPII multi-pu
Australian Composites Manufacturing (ACM CRC), Ocius Technology, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have set out through an R&D project to optimize the use of wave energy for propulsion, utilizing energy for underwater flippers for unmanned surface vessels (USVs). Bluebottle-class USVs, de
Subsea power cable manufacturer NKT has reported a record-high order backlog for high-voltage cables for 2023, with 45% of orders coming from offshore wind. At the end of last year, NKT’s order backlog was at €10.8 billion, more than double the company saw at the end of 2022. In its full-year 2023 r
Greek cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables has joined a Horizon 2020 EU-funded project that aims to develop a one-stop solution in a multi-use platform (MUP) that will produce electricity and freshwater using wind and wave power for small islands. The MUSICA project will provide a full suite of Blue G
Allseas has completed the infield pipelay scope for BP’s ultra-deepwater Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) LNG project offshore Mauritania and Senegal, two months after arriving at the field. The pipelay scope comprises approximately 75 kilometers of two 16-inch export lines and 10 kilometers of four 10-
ROV services supplier ROVOP and Boskalis Subsea Services, provider of IRM, construction and decommissioning services, have established a long-term global partnership to deliver integrated subsea solutions to the energy industry. According to ROVOP, the partnership provides five diving support vessel
UTEC, part of Acteon, has completed trials for its Gavia autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in Western Australia, following upgrades and the addition of new modules. The trials come as the AUV underwent significant upgrades and the addition of new modules including the subsea ultra-short baseline (
Norwegian clean energy company Horisont Energi is about to wrap up corporate restructuring, transferring all rights and obligations related to clean ammonia, CO2 transportation and storage, and CO2 infrastructure into three separate and wholly-owned subsidiaries. The corporate restructuring was prop
