
Australia-based MMA Offshore has secured a contract to conduct underwater geotechnical surveys to refine the cable route for the proposed interconnection project Marinus Link.

Fugro has received a “major” subsidy from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) for the development of methanol as a clean energy fuel for its vessels.

Subsea technology and services provider Ashtead Technology has entered into a global partnership with Whitecap Scientific Corporation for the ROV3D Recon computer vision solution that transforms subsea video collected by ROVs into real-time 3D data.

Proserv Controls and Trendsetter Engineering have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the joint supply of integrated subsea hardware and controls.

Neptune Energy has awarded Maersk Supply Service (MSS) with a decommissioning contract for the removal of subsea infrastructure at the Juliet field in the UK.

Italian transmission system operator (TSO) Terna has awarded Prysmian and Nexans with contracts for the supply of cables for the Tyrrhenian Link that will connect Sicily with Sardinia and the Italian peninsula.

The decision to build the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was the biggest mistake of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, Polish news outlet PAP reported the former president of the European Council Donald Tusk as saying at a recent conference.

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) and Scottish Power Transmission (SPT) have agreed to pay a redress package of £158 million for delays to the Western Link Project, following an investigation by energy regulator Ofgem.

Vattenfall has awarded Fugro with a contract to carry out a geoscience survey and subsequent data processing and reporting for a proposed pipeline route between Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) and Aberdeen Port.

PXGEO has completed the 4D baseline ocean bottom node (OBN) acquisition program at the Sapinhoa field in the deepwater Santos Basin offshore Brazil.

CNOOC Limited has started production from the Buzzard Phase II development located offshore in the UK sector of the North Sea.

Oilfield services firm Expro has secured two contracts in Australia and two in Malaysia for subsea well access operations together worth more than $50 million.

Welsh marine energy company Marine Power Systems (MPS) has opened a tender for the installation of anchors for its megawatt-scale wave and wind demonstrator in Spain.

Rotech Subsea has completed export cable de-burial and re-burial work at the Saint-Nazaire project, which is to become the first commercial offshore wind farm in France.