Aberdeen-based Rotech Subsea has set up an entity in Taiwan to service the demand coming from the local offshore wind sector. According to Rotech, the move comes as it had completed a series of cable trenching and seabed leveling campaigns in Taiwan’s offshore wind sector and secured new contracts.
N-Sea has completed a pre-emptive repair to one export cable at the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm in North Wales. The pre-emptive repair was the second stage of a repair to SSEC3 that saw circa 7.5 kilometers of submarine cable replaced and the circuit returned to full availability. Multi-purpose p
Marine survey contractor Argeo is ready to start commercial work with the newly purchased Hugin 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) from Kongsberg Maritime. The company will start commercial operations under the recently secured 12-month contract with a total net value of $4.5 million. As infor
Sonardyne has supplied its Ranger 2 acoustic tracking technology to Ireland’s new multi-purpose marine research vessel (RV) Tom Crean. Delivered in July, Tom Crean provides up to 3,000 scientist days per year for seabed mapping, deep water surveys, oceanographic and environmental research and fisher
Magseis Renewables, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Magseis Fairfield, has completed a high-resolution 3D seismic data acquisition offshore Norway over a carbon storage (CCS) area. For this project, the company utilised its extended high-resolution (XHR) acquisition technology combined with ocean botto
UAE’s ADNOC Offshore has awarded a $548 million contract for a new main gas line at its Lower Zakum field offshore of Abu Dhabi.
Ashtead Technology is expanding its mechanical solutions service offering with the acquisition of WeSubsea, a provider of subsea dredging technology solutions. The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of the year and will be Ashtead’s sixth acquisition in the past five years. A
Shell has taken a final investment decision (FID) to develop the Rosmari-Marjoram gas project located offshore Sarawak, Malaysia.
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Havila Shipping has entered into an agreement with an undisclosed party to sell the subsea vessel Havila Phoenix. The sale will take place when the existing contract for the vessel is completed, expected at the end of the fourth quarter of this year. Havila Shipping w
Russia’s state-owned gas company Gazprom has not reopened the Nord Stream 1 pipeline as planned due to “technical problems” and has not revealed when this major gas flow to Europe will start again. Gas deliveries via Nord Stream 1 from Russia to Germany closed on 31 August due to maintenance and the
With the global energy crisis unfolding and energy prices soaring, governments and companies are ramping up investments in renewables, energy efficiency and clean technologies.
Solstad Offshore has secured contract extensions and a new contract with the present client for the construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Energy. Normand Energy, previously known as Normand Seven, will continue supporting subsea operations in West Africa. The undisclosed client has exercised all
Sercel, a designer and manufacturer of seismic equipment, has made another ‘major’ sale of its GPR300 seabed nodal solution to geophysical services provider BGP. The sale of the second batch of 12,000 GPR300 nodes to BGP follows the earlier major order of 18,000 nodes in 2021. According to Sercel, t
An unmanned surface vessel (USV) survey is set to begin this month at the Braymore Wind Park site located offshore Ireland. Trial operations of remotely piloted XOcean USVs will take place in the Balbriggan and Drogheda Bay area during September and October for approximately six weeks, subject to we
