Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group has won another contract to deliver a submarine cable project in its homeland, worth around €630 million. With this, the company’s Projects Business Unit order intake exceeds €10 billion year to date, including preferred bidder agreements. Prysmian has secured th
AQUIND Ltd, the company behind the planned namesake 2 GW electricity interconnector between the UK and France, has established a collaboration with the Portsmouth City Council for the delivery of the project. AQUIND and Portsmouth City Council entered into a works co-operation agreement on 5 Septemb
A pipeline route survey has begun on the Anning and Somerville field developments located in the Southern North Sea. Furthermore, Hartshead Resources NL (HHR) and Rockrose Energy, joint venture partners standing behind the project, have received bids for the platforms. Hartshead Resources NL reporte
The University of Houston is developing an autonomous robot that will be able to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections at oil & gas projects. The SmartTouch technology, being developed by researchers at UH, consists of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) e
The US Testing Expertise and Access to Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) program has selected 10 projects through its latest call to share $1 million in research support for their marine energy-related activities.
Italian transmission system operator (TSO) Terna has put into operation the €90 million undersea cable that connects the island of Elba with Italy’s mainland – a project said to be of fundamental importance for the country’s entire electricity system. The power line connects Portoferraio and Piombin
Oilfield services company SLB and INEOS Energy have established a technology partnership to collaborate on subsurface technologies implementing digital artificial intelligence solutions. INEOS Energy will partner with SLB’s Performance Centre in Aberdeen to collaborate and innovate subsurface techno
Oceaneering International is planning to acquire Exail’s DriX uncrewed surface vessel (USV) as part of its introduction of a new USV service to support remote survey work scopes. Oceaneering announced on 5 September that its Subsea Robotics group was introducing a new USV service that will utilize d
Boskalis has been awarded contracts by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and Ørsted for the transportation and installation of the export and array cables for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in Poland, classifying the contract value as “large”, which for Boskalis means it is worth more than €300 millio
Horisont Energi has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with energy company PGNiG Upstream Norway (PUN), part of Poland’s ORLEN Group, under which PUN aims to enter as a partner and operator in the only CO2 exploration license in the Barents Sea. The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy announced
Prysmian Group has signed a capacity reservation agreement with Marinus Link, a subsidiary of the Australian transmission system operator (TSO) TasNetworks, to reserve the capability to deliver a power interconnector project in Australia. The agreement includes the Commonwealth Government underwriti
SCHOTTEL Marine Technologies, the new company name for Germany’s AQUOS SCHOTTEL Marine Technologies and Scotland’s Swift Anchors, has integrated its operations to ramp-up deployment of its anchoring solutions for floating offshore renewables.
Solstad Offshore has secured two new contracts for its subsea vessels – one in the offshore wind and the other in the oil & gas industry. Construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Baltic has won a 180-day contract to provide walk-to-work services on an offshore wind project in Asia, set to commence
Offshore construction has started on RWE’s 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea off the northeast coast of the UK. The offshore works are kicking off with the laying of the first section of high voltage direct current (HVDC) export cable which will be done by Prysm
