UK-based subsea cable engineering consultancy Red Penguin will act as a client representative for National Grid and Energinet during Viking Link interconnector cable laying campaigns. Viking Link project is a joint venture between National Grid Ventures, part of National Grid, and the Danish operato
Bergen-based Connector Subsea Solutions (CSS) and Houston-based AFGlobal (AFG) have extended the existing collaborative agreement to include global offshore servicing support for critical subsea connections. This collaboration is to enable joint supply of products and services on projects that requi
Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) has completed the identification of geohazards in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea that offshore wind developers should address when planning projects. According to OWC, Poland’s Baltic Sea is covered by various kinds of sediments, ranging from loam through fine‐gr
TenneT has awarded ten framework agreements for marine warranty surveyor (MWS) services which will support the realisation of several offshore grid connections in Germany and the Netherlands. The marine warranty surveyor has to monitor whether all activities carried out by a contractor are performed
TenneT has invited applications to qualify for a tender that will be launched in February 2021, when the Dutch transmission system operator will seek a subsea cable supplier for the Hollandse Kust West Beta platform. The scope of the contract will include the design, engineering, production, deliver
NKT and Boskalis have completed the replacement of four high-voltage power cables connecting Sweden and Denmark installed in 1973. Specifically, the cabling specialist switched the old cables with four new 400 kV XLPE HVAC power cables. NKT, in a consortium with Boskalis, won the Oresund interconnec
Houston-based Oceaneering has won a BOP tethering services contract offshore Brazil from Petrobras. The contract duration is one-year, but also with the option to extend for an additional year. The scope of work includes data acquisition and real-time riser analysis for dynamic positioning rig opera
Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) will carry out a review of data and information requirements of offshore renewable energy within the INFOMAR seabed mapping programme that has been underway in Ireland. The Irish geotechnical engineering consultancy has been commissioned by Geological Survey Irelan
Van Oord, as part of the Two Towers consortium, is preparing to install eight reef structures with oysters underwater at the Borssele V offshore wind site in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The project aims to investigate methods for the development of oyster reefs at offshore locations as part o
Marine services player C-Innovation has chosen Sonardyne’s underwater positioning and navigation technology to support its operations offshore Brazil. Sonardyne will equip remotely operated vehicles (ROV fleet) on board six ROV support vessels with inertial, gyrocompass and Doppler technologies, as
SSE Renewables has awarded Cathie and British Geological Survey (BGS) with a contract to develop a ground model for the FEED design of the Berwick Bank and Marr Bank offshore wind projects. Cathie and BGS said they had partnered together to develop a dynamic, regional ground model that will be used
Blue Ocean Seismic Services has secured a £10-million investment from a group of energy technology and investment companies: bp Ventures, Woodside Energy and Blue Ocean Monitoring. The investment should help continue the development of a fully integrated system which uses long endurance self-reposit
The Biscay Gulf electrical interconnection developer Inelfe has issued a tender call for advisor/broker insurance services to advise the company along the project. The scope of the services will focus on 2 phases divided into three activities. Specifically, these include probable maximum losses anal
Turkish vessel Oruc Reis will carry out a seismic survey in the eastern Mediterranean over the next ten days, a move which will further test already tense relationships with Greece.
