Harvey Gulf International Marine has added Ed Galloway to its team to lead the company’s new subsea venture company, Harvey Subsea Services. Ed Galloway formerly run Subsea 7/i-Tech 7 IRM business in the role of director of Gulf of Mexico region. Prior to this, the US Navy veteran spent 23 years at
Jan De Nul has completed the installation of four subsea export cables and the upgrade of the onshore substation of Taiwan Power Company’s Changhua Phase 1 offshore wind project. The company’s cable-laying vessel Willem de Vlamingh installed the four cables from the site 10km off the coast to the sh
Ocean bottom node seismic player Axxis Geo Solutions (AGS) said on Monday that it will reduce operations due to significant uncertainty in the market as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. According to the Oslo-listed AGS, this should take place following its current surveys in the North Sea and Egypt.
McMenon Engineering Services has appointed Bipin Nair, who has over 20 years’ industry experience, as regional general manager for the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions. He was previously with Wika Group in the Middle East for ten years, rising to the position of regional marketing manager. Bipin
The National Subsea Research Institute (NSRI) has developed a tool which provides a clear indication of the potential commercial viability of early stage technology in the subsea industry, supporting technology and innovation developers, funding organisations and investors. By measuring the viabilit
Impact Subsea has selected ROMOR Ocean Systems as a distributor of its products within Canada. With over 30 years’ experience in the ocean technology industry, ROMOR provides training, service and support for a variety of equipment across the scientific, offshore oil and gas, geophysical and defence
Forum Energy Technologies has developed and demonstrated the ability to remotely operate Workclass and Observation Class, Perry and Sub-Atlantic, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) between an offshore vessel and a remote location. The concept of remote piloting was proven by Forum 2010 when the compa
Hitachi ABB Power Grids has won a contract from SSEN Transmission to deliver a pioneering multi-terminal HVDC interconnection in Shetland. It marks a European first for the HDVC Light technology and the second project of its kind in the world. The link, which will connect Shetland to the UK transmis
Subsea services group Acteon has recently opened its new facility in Westhill, Aberdeen. The company has obtained the extensive newly built premises, spanning over a total of 55,000 square feet. The centre should simplify the interface for its clients and boost service delivery for survey, marine el
Airborne Oil & Gas, a provider of Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP), has promoted William de la Motte to chief financial officer (CFO) following six months as interim finance director. William de la Motte started his career at Dutch trading company Ceteco in the Americas, where he stayed for 13 yea
Marine seismic player Polarcus has received a letter of intent for 3D seismic data acquisition services in Asia Pacific. The project should commence in the third quarter 2020, subject to relevant approvals. According to the Oslo-listed firm, the acquisition campaign will have a duration of one month
Fugro has nominated Sjoerd Vollebregt as member of the Supervisory Board for a term which will end with the annual general meeting in 2024. The appointment of Vollebregt will allow for proper succession as Douglas Wall who wants to retire at the end of the annual general meeting in 2021. Sjoerd Voll
Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) has won contracts to supply two solutions to marine telecommunications company Orange Marine Group. SMD designed the new LARS systems to launch custom trenching ROVs for the burial of underwater fibre optic cables. The solutions are an evolution of SMD’s Wide Angle A-Fram
Fugro has begun its shallow water campaign for the 2Africa subsea fibre-optic cable project. Once installed, it will connect 23 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe and deliver more than the total combined capacity of all subsea data cables serving Africa today. Fugro is supporting the pr
