Repsol Sinopec has received approval from the UK authorities for preparation work scopes relating to the decommissioning of the Fulmar and Auk North installations.
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is supporting XOCEAN-led XO-G2 project which aims to develop the next generation survey platform in the form of uncrewed surface vessels (USV). With increased demand on the ocean for aquaculture, harvesting metals and energy extraction, companies need safer, lower cost, c
The Osprey Group has won a contract to provide handling and storage services for the spare export cable for the Moray East offshore wind farm. Under the contract, the company will receive and store approximately 2,500 metres of subsea cable and approximately 1,500 metres of HDD cable to be received
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has delivered the riser pull-in system for the Lingshui 17-2 platform, owned and operated by CNOOC. The Lingshui 17-2 platform is the world’s first deepwater semi-submersible production platform with condensate storage facilities. The China’s first wholly-owned and opera
Acteon’s marine technology company Seatronics has appointed Derek Donaldson as its new Group managing director. Donaldson joined Seatronics in 2008 as vice president Asia Pacific, where he established Seatronics Pte as the regions key supplier. Following this success, Seatronics promoted him into th
Fugro has completed a six-month site characterisation campaign at the Mayflower Wind project area off the coast of Massachusetts, where Shell and Ocean Winds are developing an 804 MW offshore wind farm. The company carried out high‑resolution surveys within the project’s lease area and along the exp
First Subsea has won the contract to provide the cable protection systems (CPSs) for the inter-array cables at the 71-turbine Fécamp wind farm offshore Normandy, France. Prysmian Group will manufacture and deliver the inter-array cables for the project. The Italian cable maker selected First Subsea
Subsea Global Solutions (SGS) has entered into a new agreement with product tanker owner and operator Hafnia to provide underwater hull maintenance and repair services for their fleet of 93 owned vessels. The deal will see all related underwater works for the Hafnia Tankers fleet coordinated out of
McDermott has won a pre front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from Tata Steel B.V. for the Enhancing Value by Emissions Reuse and Emission Storage (EVEREST) Project. Specifically, Tata Steel has launched the preparatory plans for a project to capture CO2 from its blast furnaces in IJmuiden, t
Dubai-based subsea services player Dulam said that its DSV Oceanic Installer has commenced charter with India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). According tu Dulam, the vesselis is currently carrying out subsea IMR operations off the West Coast of India. The vessel comes equipped with a 14-ma
Australian energy company Santos plans to acquire a 3D marine seismic survey in the Bedout Sub-basin on the central North West Shelf called the Archer 3D MSS. The Archer 3D MSS is located within exploration permit areas WA-437-P and WA-541-P, and surrounding waters. The 3D seismic data will help dev
Dutch-based Mammoet has secured a steel catenary riser (SCR) and umbilical pull-in contract from Subsea 7. The scope of work included in this contract is for engineering, procurement, fabrication and offshore pull-in operations. The SCR and umbilical pull-in operations will take place at Mississippi
LOC Korea, a subsidiary of LOC Group, has been awarded a contract to provide marine warranty surveyor (MWS) services for the subsea cable installation on the JANGGAM solar project. LOC Korea has been hired by solar industry company Topsun to provide MWS services for the 154 kilovolt XLPE 3C 800 sq.
Subsea services player DeepOcean has started a restructuring process in relation to three UK subsidiaries in its Cable Laying and Trenching business (“CL&T Group”), which will enable the CL&T Group to be wound down on a solvent basis. DeepOcean 1 UK, DeepOcean Subsea Cables and Enshore Subsea have f
