Preparatory survey work on four new floating offshore wind farms has been completed in the North Sea. Geophysical survey work was completed on BlueFloatEnergy and Renantis Partnership’s ScotWind projects, namely the 900 MW Broadshore project, located 50 kilometers north of Fraserburgh, and the 1.2 G
MMA Offshore has acquired a 2016-built multi-purpose support vessel from Australia’s Guardian Offshore. The Offshore Solution is a European-built, 54-meter DP-2 multi-purpose support vessel fitted with two deck cranes, dual moon pools and accommodation for 42 people. According to MMA, it is suitable
Reach Subsea has signed a three or five-year charter contract, including additional options, with Agalas for a low-emission IMR/survey vessel with a smart lifting arrangement and an equipment package that can be adapted to several market segments. The new vessel, set to be constructed at the Sefine
SSEN Transmission has selected Nexans to supply and install the high-voltage cables that will provide a transmission link from the Orkney Islands to the Scottish Highlands. A capacity reservation agreement has been signed and Nexans has committed to reserve manufacturing and installation capacity fo
Following the announcement in early October that it will be working for an “oil and gas supermajor”, Argeo has now revealed the client and remaining details. Argeo announced on November 9 that it had signed a NOK 55 million (over $4.9 million) contract for the Bonga field subsea assets work program
Van Oord has been awarded contracts for Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland and Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan valued at more than €500 million. For the Baltic Power offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea, Van Oord will transport and install 78 foundations, incl
The FAB interconnector that will link Great Britain and France has received updated planning permission for its converter station in the UK. The FAB Project will link the national electricity grids of Great Britain and France with the aim of increasing energy security, equalising electricity prices
Denmark-headquartered cable supplier NKT has reported a new record high-voltage order backlog of €11 billion for the third quarter of 2023, driven by the award of five firm projects under a larger framework agreement with German transmission system operator 50Hertz. In Q3 2023, NKT’s revenues increa
Energy services provider Expro has completed a well cementing project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for what it describes as a “large international operator”. Expro delivered an inner-string cementing on a subsea well’s 22″ surface casing in a water depth of approximately 2,000 meters in the Mississipp
As construction work continues on New York’s first offshore wind farm, James Fisher Renewables is carrying out its second contract for the project. Following the deployment of the company’s bubble curtain during foundation installation this summer, James Fisher is now engaged in the final cable work
UAE-based AD Ports Group has acquired ten vessels for around $200 million, representing a circa 20% increase in offshore and subsea capacity for the company’s Middle East and Southeast Asia operations. The vessels, bought from offshore supply vessel owner and operator E-NAV, are said to make a well-
Italy’s oil and gas giant Eni and energy infrastructure operator Snam have launched the first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Italy. Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi and Snam CEO Stefano Venier signed an agreement on December 19, 2022, to jointly develop and manage Phase 1 of the Ravenna CCS Pro
Aberdeen-based Amplus Energy Services is entering the carbon capture sector with a multi-million-pound investment in a Norwegian carbon capture company which will see the creation of a new UK carbon capture business. Amplus Energy announced it was investing seven figures in the Norwegian carbon capt
Vattenfall and TKF have signed a multi-year partnership for the supply of inter-array cables for offshore wind farms in Europe. The agreement covers the supply of 66 kV inter-array cables and will apply to all fixed-bottom European offshore wind farms developed by Vattenfall in the coming years. The
