Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has chosen a suite of subsea navigation, positioning and communications technologies from Sonardyne to navigate, track and control its first commercial SPICE autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The SPICE AUV will be using Sonardyne’s hybrid navigator SPRINT-Nav, co
Solstad Offshore has secured a new contract with DeepOcean for its construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Jarstein. The CSV will support DeepOcean’s inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR), light construction, offshore renewables and recycling projects. The contract will commence in the first q
SSEN Transmission has appointed Nexans to provide consultancy services to support a business continuity strategy for the high voltage subsea transmission link between Kintyre and Hunterston. The consultancy services will identify the optimum monitoring, repair and restoration regime to keep the link
PGS and CGG have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to combine their seismic multi-client products and technical capabilities applied to the carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) sector. The seismic players stated they want to join forces and unlock the value of existing seismic data
The consortium of PGS, TGS and Schlumberger’s WesternGeco has secured pre-funding for a 6,400 square kilometer multi-client 3D survey in the Sarawak Basin off the coast of Malaysia. The survey is the first phase of a multi-year contract awarded by Petronas last year to acquire and process up to 105,
Oilfield services provider Baker Hughes has reported a loss in the second quarter of the year although the company did book an increase in orders and revenues.
Solstad Offshore has won two medium-term contracts for its construction vessels (CSV) Normand Navigator and Normand Frontier in the second half of 2021.
An uncrewed surface vessel (USV) is set to begin a hydrographic survey at the operational Gwynt y Môr offshore wind project located off the North Wales Coast. The USV will be performing the hydrographic survey of the export routes from 26 July for up to 7 days until 2 August, subject to weather cond
TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory has launched a real-time software tool for the verification of subsea multiphase flow meters (MPFM) that is said to help operators optimise reservoir management and revenues. NEL-SURE provides in-situ, continuous calibration of MPFMs and uses a traffic light s
E&P company Neptune Energy has selected Fugro for subsea inspection of its Cygnus field in the UK’s southern North Sea.
Canadian marine technology company Kraken Robotics has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 3D acoustic imaging specialist PanGeo Subsea. PanGeo’s assets consist primarily of human capital, know-how and equipment comprised mostly of sub-bottom imaging units and acoustic imaging units that are us
Prysmian Group has secured a contract to provide deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals and specialized offshore and logistic services to Petrobras.
A new set of surveys is now underway at the Mayflower Wind site offshore Massachusetts, where a joint venture of Shell New Energies US and EDPR Offshore North America plans to build an 804 MW offshore wind farm. As part of a geophysical and geotechnical (G&G) survey campaign which started with geoph
A consortium between Vietsovpetro, PTSC G&S and Fugro has won a contract for offshore geotechnical survey services for the 3.5 GW La Gan offshore wind project in Vietnam. As part of the contract, Fugro will carry out offshore geotechnical surveys using its geotechnical vessel Fugro Mariner and deliv
