South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution has acquired a 2016-built cable laying vessel (CLV) from Norwegian DOF Group, representing the second offshore wind-dedicated CLV introduced in Korea. The 10,000-ton class Skandi Connector was designed by Dutch shipbuilder Damen and has to date been deployed on
Danish energy company Ørsted has issued a tender looking to award a six-year frame agreement for pipeline inspection services to be performed in the Danish part of the North Sea. Ørsted is planning for a new frame agreement with bi-annual remotely operated vehicle (ROV) inspection with planned call-
Føn Energy Services has launched what it says will be its busiest offshore wind season to date, with inspection and repair campaigns underway across 14 offshore wind farms in the Netherlands, Scotland, Germany and Poland. The company has mobilized technicians, vessels, diving teams, remotely operate
Preparation work is underway in Danish waters to replace an outdated submarine cable that connects Denmark and Sweden, passing across Øresund. Swedish and Danish transmission system operators (TSOs) Kraftnät and Energinet own and operate four Øresund links that connect Zealand and southern Sweden vi
Dutch non-destructive testing specialist Ned Marine Services has expanded its inspection capabilities with the launch of subsea remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and flying drone inspection services for non-destructive testing (NDT). The new service is aimed at Dutch and wider European customers and i
Norway-headquartered Red Rock has completed the commissioning and harbour acceptance testing (HAT) for the crane systems onboard Nexans’ new cable-laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Electra. Besides the crane delivery, Red Rock also supplied two work baskets with a common HPU solution for the vessel. Nexans
UK designer and manufacturer of uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) ZeroUSV has made a strategic investment in the Manor Marine shipyard, which in the last 12 months constructed and outfitted all four Oceanus12 vessels currently in operation. By becoming a shareholder in Manor Marine, ZeroUSV says it se
Naples-headquartered Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has won a €10 million contract to deliver geophysical survey and unexploded ordnance (UXO) activities to ensure safety during the installation of subsea energy infrastructure in the Central Mediterranean. The contract was secured with a leading intern
Underwater acoustic monitoring equipment has been deployed off Scotland’s east coast as part of a two-year study aimed at improving the understanding of minke whale activity in areas being considered for offshore wind farms’ export cable routes. The work, led by the Scottish Association for Marine S
OneSubsea, a joint venture (JV) established in 2023 by SLB, Aker Solutions, and Subsea7, has completed the acquisition of the subsea business of Norwegian Envirex Group. SLB reported on March 12 that the OneSubsea JV had entered into an agreement for the acquisition, as a result of which Envirex Gro
Siemens Energy has delivered all 14 transformers that will help to power NeuConnect, the first energy link between the UK and Germany. The seventh and final transformer was delivered to the converter station site in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, this week, following the delivery of all seven transformers
Fugro has started geotechnical survey work for the Berwick Bank offshore wind project under a contract the company was awarded by SSE Renewables. The contract covers geotechnical investigations for Berwick Bank B, the second phase of the wider 4.1 GW offshore wind development in Scotland, planned to
Dutch cable manufacturer TKF has secured a contract from Vattenfall and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for the supply of inter-array cables for the first phase of the Zeevonk offshore wind project in the Netherlands. Back in 2023, Vattenfall and TKF signed a multi-year framework agreement
Norwegian energy data and intelligence provider TGS has landed a new assignment in the United States (U.S.), which will enable it to advance ocean bottom node (OBN) ultra‑high resolution seismic data in the Gulf of America (U.S. Gulf of Mexico).
