Malin Marine has secured a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Well-Safe Solutions for the provision of engineering, naval architecture, shipping and fabrication services. Well-Safe Solutions has recently set out its commitment to invest £200 million in bespoke assets in the next three years, with
Maritime Developments MDL has carried out transpooling of a flexible jumper for TechnipFMC in Norway. The complete scope of work consisted of project engineering and onshore execution of transpooling of a 6-inch flowline from a storage reel onto the quayside using the MDL second-generation RDS. This
Installation of the world’s longest heated subsea production pipeline is underway in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Once completed, the 36-kilometre electrically trace-heated (ETH) pipe-in-pipe solution will transport oil from the Neptune Energy-operated Fenja field to the Njord A platform,
The NOC’s Marine Robotics Innovation Centre has partnered with start-up company Wight Ocean on a successful proposal into the UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator’s (DASA) Map the Gap funding programme. The project will develop an amphibious bottom crawler to navigate and transit water crossings to
Magseis Fairfield has received a conditional Letter of Award (LOA) from an undisclosed multi-client company for Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) survey in the Gulf of Mexico. The survey, with a duration of four months, is anticipated to start in the beginning of April 2021. It further extends the backlog for
Shearwater GeoServices has announced a new 3D seismic acquisition award for ION Geophysical’s UK Mid North Sea High (“MNSH”) program. The MNSH is one of the last remaining underexplored regions on the UK Continental Shelf and a recent well confirmed one of the first new plays in recent years. The ve
Bergen-based Connector Subsea Solutions (CSS) has signed an exclusive agreement with Abu Dhabi Oilfield Services Company (ADOS). Furthermore, this agreement gets support with the appointment of John Charalambides as CSS executive VP – Middle East & North Africa. The agreement has a minimum duration
Turkey is carrying on with its exploration attempts in a disputed area of the East Mediterranean until mid-September which tensed up the relationship between Ankara and Athens even further.
Blue Logic has been awarded the Innovation Award 2020 from ONS, in the SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) category, for its development of an open-standard subsea docking station for underwater vehicles. Blue Logic’s seabed installed docking station enables underwater vehicles or drones to be
DOF Subsea has won a marine operations turnkey contract in connection with a decommissioning project by Teekay Petrojarl Floating Production. The award for the Oslo-listed firm covers project management, engineering, procurement and all offshore marine operations. The offshore works specifically inc
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has launched the third module for its App-based continuing professional development (CPD) scheme for diving supervisors. The App incorporates the latest in training techniques to support diving supervisors in keeping up to date with current inf
Vattenfall has issued a tender for installation works on two wind farms in the Danish North Sea – Vesterhav Syd and Vesterhav Nord. The tender is divided into three lots and covers the installation of the foundations, the cables, and the wind turbines. The contracts are scheduled to run from July 20
ASX-listed high-performance computing experts DUG Technology and Norwegian energy giant Equinor have signed a multi-year deal covering seismic processing and imaging technology. Under the deal, Equinor will replace existing third-party technology with an integrated solution using DUG McCloud, a plat
As announced in July, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), has now issued an invitation to tender for geotechnical soil investigations at the IJmuiden Ver Wind Farm Zone (IJVWFZ), located some 62 kilometres off the Dutch coast. The tender is divided into two lots, one to be awarded for seabed Co
