Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has approved CGG Services Australia’s (CGG’s) proposal to undertake the Sauropod 3D marine seismic survey.
Reach Subsea has won a contract to perform an ocean bottom node (OBN) campaign in the Mediterranean Sea for an undisclosed client. The activities will be performed by the Havila Subsea spread, with start-up expected early in Q2 2022, representing around 130 project days. Reach Subsea extended the co
Hundreds of barrels of oil spilt into the Irish Sea following a leak from Eni’s pipeline off the UK.
Shell Brasil has awarded Maersk Supply Service with a contract for a station-keeping assignment during the removal of the emergency Gas Lift Riser on the FPSO Fluminense. The scope includes responsibility for the station keeping, including vessels, heading control procedures, towmasters, survey equi
Hellenic Cables has won a contract by Van Oord Offshore Wind UK for the supply of 66 kV inter-array cables and accessories for the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind project in the UK. Under the contract, Hellenic Cables will design, engineer, manufacture, test and supply approximately 360 kilometers of 66
Orient Cable has won a cable engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by MingYang Smart Energy for a 500 MW offshore wind project in China. The Chinese power cable specialist will deliver 220 kV export and 35 kV inter-array cables under the contract valued at more than
DeepOcean has entered into a firm charter agreement with Hornbeck Offshore for the multi-purpose service vessel HOS Warland to support work in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The vessel has been part of DeepOcean’s offering for some time, but will now be secured through a time charter. The subsea services
Helix Energy Solutions has secured a long-term field decommissioning contract with Trident Energy for the Pampo and Enchova clusters in the Campos Basin, Brazil. Helix will provide a riser-based well intervention vessel, either Siem Helix 1 or Siem Helix 2, a 10k Intervention Riser System, project m
Sonardyne has launched a wireless underwater initiation capacity with the aim of improving the safety and efficiency of unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance during offshore energy projects. The Initiation Transponder 6 (IT 6) is designed to be connected directly to a remotely deployed, non-electric m
SINTEF Energy Research and ECONNECT Energy have developed a new computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling tool to predict LNG, ammonia and liquid CO2 flow rates in floating cryogenic pipes.
Solstad Offshore and Global Marine Group have signed a contract extension for the construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Clipper. The parties decided to extend their present contract for Normand Clipper with a further three years to May 2026, and additional options thereafter. Global Marine Group
Neptune Energy and RWE have signed a Joint Development Agreement to develop a green hydrogen project which will use offshore wind energy for the production of hydrogen in the Dutch sector of the North Sea and an existing pipeline to transport the hydrogen to land. The project, called H2opZee and sup
Makai Ocean Engineering, an ocean technology and engineering firm based in Hawaii, U.S., will develop new mooring and anchoring methods for grid-scale floating offshore wind turbines and hydrokinetic systems, according to the US Department of Energy, which just awarded the company $849,952 to develo
DEME Offshore has contracted Proserv Controls for the delivery of the monitoring system for inter-array cables for the first two phases of the Dogger Bank offshore wind project. Proserv will supply its Electro Cable Guard (ECG) cable monitoring system (CMS) for Dogger Bank A and B, integrating appli
