The hull of NKT’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV) NKT Eleonora has been launched into the water at Vard’s shipyard in Tulcea, Romania. The official keel laying for the vessel took place in January 2025, some two months after the first steel was cut. NKT Eleonora will be able to run on both methanol an
France’s Nexans has completed a deep-fjord 420 kV subsea cable project for Norway’s transmission system operator (TSO) Statnett, set to strengthen the regional transmission grid serving Bergen and nearby industrial areas. Nexans secured the project in 2022 for the engineering, manufacturing and inst
Subsea Integration Alliance (SIA), comprising SLB OneSubsea and Subsea7, and Petronas Suriname E&P, a subsidiary of Malaysia’s state-owned oil & gas firm Petronas, have signed a strategic collaboration agreement for field development projects in Suriname. The agreement establishes a long-term framew
Jan De Nul has launched William Thomson, the second of two identical subsea cable‑laying vessels (CLVs) currently under construction. Both vessels have a cargo capacity of 28,000 tons and a length of 215 meters. This makes them the largest of their kind, Jan De Nul said. Jan De Nul’s two new CLVs ha
The Netherlands will introduce a new offshore electricity bidding zone for wind farms that will be linked to the planned 1.8 GW LionLink hybrid interconnector, which will connect the Dutch and UK grids. The LionLink project was launched in April 2023 and is led by the countries’ transmission system
London-headquartered energy services provider Hunting has received subsea orders totalling $63.5 million for a new offshore development in Guyana. The award covers the delivery of Hunting‘s titanium stress joint (TSJ) product line, used on floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels,
Norway’s Shearwater GeoServices and Australia-headquartered Searcher have completed this season’s multi-client 3D seismic acquisition campaign in Brazil’s Pelotas Basin. This Phase Three contributed an additional 7,500 km2 of high-quality 3D data, building on the 9,500 km2 previously acquired, bring
ZenaTech, a Canadian technology company specializing in AI drone, drone as a service (DaaS), enterprise SaaS and quantum computing solutions, has entered the underwater robotics market with the development of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) prototype. ZenaTech reported on March 31 that its Ze
The first interconnector between Italy and Malta has returned to operation after it was shut down due to work on the second interconnector that will connect the two countries. As announced on March 28, the scheduled intervention required the temporary suspension of IC1 to allow for the safe reroutin
Transmission system operators (TSOs) TenneT and National Grid Ventures (NGV) have signed a joint development agreement (JDA) to advance LionLink, a hybrid interconnector linking the UK and the Netherlands via a future offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The agreement sets out how the two part
Dutch advanced unmanned robotics services provider DroneQ Robotics has received exclusive rights to deploy Mark Offshore’s research and survey vessel for its own and third-party projects. This comes as Dutch Mark Offshore signed an agreement with Lithuania’s Klaipėda University to handle the managem
U.S.-headquartered energy giant Chevron has taken a final investment decision (FID) for a gas monetization project off the coast of Equatorial Guinea. Noble Energy EG, a Chevron company, has tasked Luxembourg-domiciled Subsea7 with the subsea installation scope for this project.
Fugro and Sweco are carrying out soil investigation fieldwork for a pipeline network that will link three industrial areas in the Netherlands and transport hydrogen and directly captured CO2 to designated offshore storage sites. Commissioned by Gasunie, the Delta Rhine Corridor West (DRC West) infra
Petrobras has awarded a contract to Fugro for a geotechnical site investigation for the Brazilian oil major’s first offshore wind project, a pilot proposed to be built off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro. According to Fugro, the 18 MW Rio de Janeiro offshore wind pilot project is the first
