Acteon Group has welcomed Bill Curtin to the position of managing director of geospatial solutions company TerraSond. Bill has international engineering, procurement and construction industry experience, including leading KBR’s engineering and construction operations for the Americas region. His pro
Oslo-listed Subsea 7 said it has secured a ‘sizeable’ contract from an undisclosed client for work offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The contract scope covers the project management, engineering, procurement, installation and pull-in of one subsea rigid flowline and flexible riser together with flexible
Kraken Robotics has secured $2.9 million from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). The Canadian company will receive the funding over a 26-month project period. Specifically, Kraken will use it to support the development of its seabed resident
DNV GL has completed the world’s first in-water remote ship surveys using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). In-water bottom surveys using ROVs have now been carried out on three separate Wilson ASA-managed vessels with the first having been completed on the Wilson Fedje in December 2019 by a survey
The jacket foundation for the third offshore transformer module (OTM) for Moray East offshore wind farm has been installed at the site off the Scottish coast. According to the project’s latest Notice of Operations, the jack-up vessel Seajacks Scylla installed the OSP1 jacket on 30 August. Meanwhile,
US-based CSA Ocean Sciences (CSA) has revealed the latest addition to its coastal survey fleet, the R/V Dolphin. Specifically, CSA has configured the 15-metre multipurpose vessel to support marine geophysical survey. The R/V Dolphin’s layout includes an aft working deck, a raised wheelhouse, as well
ETPM, the Aberdeen-based subsea and marine recruitment specialist, has entered into a new joint venture with Glasgow based start-up company, Nudge Exchange. Nudge Exchange has developed a platform to connect agile companies with a flexible workforce. The technology being developed digitalises the pr
South Korean shipbuilder DSME has tagged Scana-owned Seasystems for the delivery of mooring equipment and analyses for two floating LNG storage units.
DEME’s vessels Neptune, D’Artagnan, and Bonny River have been deployed on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project, with some of the work now underway at the site located some 12 kilometres off the coast of the Guérande peninsula in France. The company’s cutter suction dredger D’Artagnan and trailing
Boskalis Subsea Services has completed a multi-million-pound contract awarded by Perenco UK to support a pipeline project in the UK’s Southern North Sea basin. One of the firm’s dive support vessels (DSV) the Boka Da Vinci, was mobilised to replace a 29-metre section of pipeline, which delivers hydr
Avaroa Cable and Vodafone Cook Islands have signed multi-year partnership for use of the Manatua Cable. The companies announced that Aitutaki would be the first to benefit with services already transferred to the cable. The development makes Vodafone, Avaroa and the Cook Islands the first to make us
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has welcomed Gilar Prakoso to the OPT commercial team as Asia-Pacific representative, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. “The Asia-Pacific region presents significant opportunities for OPT’s power and communications solutions among nations concerned with maritime border enfo
Tekmar Energy, a Tekmar Group company, has appointed Marc Bell as director of Operations and Leanne Wilkinson as finance director. Marc is an industry professional with over 20 years technical and operational management experience. Marc previously held positions as director of Operations with JDR Ca
The Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany has awarded Ramboll with a contract to assist in developing a research device that will study marine growth on offshore wind turbines. The university’s Leichtweiß Institute for Hydraulic Engineering is planning to build a large-scale saltwater flow
