China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) has held the keel laying ceremony for Asso.subsea’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV), marking the start of the vessel’s assembly. The keel laying ceremony was held on April 9 at CMHI’s shipyard on Mazhou Island, Shenzhen, some five months after the start of constru
Terna, Italy’s national grid operator, has awarded Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) with a contract valued at over €28 million for preliminary marine survey and environmental characterization services for a new high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnector that will link Lazio and Lombardy. NextGeo w
Geoquip Marine Operations and GEO Denmark are set to start a geotechnical investigation campaign at the Bowdun offshore wind farm site in Scotland, developed by Thistle Wind Partners. Two vessels, Geoquip Seehorn and Geo Connector, will be used to perform the surveys, with the work expected to comme
Boskalis has marked a milestone from its Remote Operations Center (ROC) in Aberdeen, Scotland, with the first deployment of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) from the new facility. During the test phase, ROVs underwent a week of intensive trials from Boskalis’ construction support vessel (CSV) BOKA
A construction support vessel (CSV) owned by Solstad Maritime (SOMA) has secured a two-year contract extension worth approximately $56 million with Brazilian oil & gas company Petrobras. As part of the extended contract, the CSV Normand Fortress will provide accommodation services to support product
Türkiye’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources has confirmed the arrival of a seventh-generation drillship to Somalia, where it is expected to kick off hydrocarbon offshore exploration activities and spud what is described as the world’s second-deepest offshore well.
Luxembourg-domiciled Subsea7 has been tasked with work in the Santos Basin on a field development project, which is described as one of the largest pre‑salt expansion phases off the coast of Brazil.
Following last month’s contract win in China, OneSubsea, a joint venture backed by SLB, Aker Solutions and Subsea7, has secured a contract with Texas-based Beacon Offshore Energy (BOE) Exploration and Production for a deepwater field in the Gulf of America. Under the contract, OneSubsea will deliver
Great Britain’s regulator, North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), has hit London Stock Exchange-listed energy player EnQuest with a penalty over decommissioning failures related to 33 inactive wells.
DeepOcean has signed an agreement with Boskalis for the charter of a subsea vessel the Dutch company recently purchased from Norwegian vessel operator Sea1 Offshore. Boka Spearfish, to be renamed from Sea1 Spearfish, will join DeepOcean’s fleet of advanced subsea vessels for the remainder of 2026, w
Fugro will conduct a UXO survey at the Morecambe Bay area this month, ahead of a geotechnical site investigation for the Morecambe offshore wind project that is planned to start in May 2026. The UXO work will be undertaken by the survey vessel Fugro Frontier and is planned to commence around April 1
Northern Phoenix, the third liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) carrier for the Northern Lights CO2 project in Norway, has officially been blessed and will now start final preparations and commissioning ahead of operations. China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry (DSIC), part of China State Shipbuilding Co
Boskalis’ new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel, described by the company as the largest in the industry, has arrived in the Netherlands for final outfitting and commissioning ahead of its first assignment later this year. Windpiper, whose purchase Boskalis announced in January 2025, was develop
Chantiers de l’Atlantique, EDF power solutions, Heerema Marine Contractors, Menck, RTE, Sealence and Smulders have formed the Searénité consortium to develop a dedicated solution designed to limit underwater noise generated during offshore construction, particularly for floating wind and substation
