Woodside has filed environment plans for the Greater Western Flank 3 and Lambert Deep development drilling and subsea installation activities to NOPSEMA.
DeepOcean has secured an EPCI contract for marine operations on Repsol’s tieback of Yme Beta North reservoir to existing facilities. The award to DeepOcean covers project management, engineering, construction and offshore installation activities. The offshore work includes marine operations for inst
UXOcontro has completed the UXO identification campaign for the Kincardine offshore wind farm. Located approximately 15km off the south-east coast of Aberdeen, Kincardine offshore wind farm has a nominal capacity of 50 MW. It comprises offshore floating wind turbine structures, an offshore export ca
DeepTech Oil Services has expanded its premises with a new testing pool and crane. This adds to its 3600m² custom built facility in Cairo and means engineers can test prototype remotely operated vehicle (ROV) technology. The company added six new ROVs to its fleet at the end of last year bringing it
Fugro has completed first fully autonomous geophysical shallow-water route survey in the Middle East. Controlled from Fugro’s remote operations centre in Abu Dhabi, an uncrewed surface vessel (USV) captured a full range of geophysical data across a survey area some 40 km out from the coast of Abu Dh
Australian energy giant Woodside has said that its Sangomar project offshore Senegal remains on track for first oil in 2023.
Cabling specialist NKT is now powering its power cable manufacturing with electricity from renewable energy. This is reducing its CO2-emissions from energy consumption by 66 per cent. For NKT, the move to green electricity is a step in supporting the global transition to renewables by reducing the c
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has postponed all activities for the rest of 2020, under the Endowment Fund for Marine Scientific Research in the international seabed area, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, no new applications will be reviewed during 2020, ISA said. During this ti
Fife fabrication firm AJS Production has returned to work to complete Mocean Energy’s Blue Star wave energy prototype. AJS has split its team to comply with Covid-19 rules and advance the fabrication of the 20-metre long WEC. Mocean will deploy the half-scale device at EMEC in Orkney for sea trials
Unique Group has selected Sonardyne technology to enhance its offering in the US Gulf of Mexico energy sector. Unique added two Ranger 2 USBL positioning systems, complete with HPT 5000 transceivers and survey-room hardware and software. The technology can quickly mobilise on vessels of opportunity
Trendsetter Engineering has introduced the Trident Intervention System. The system has been designed for rapid reconfiguration in the field, providing the flexibility to conduct intervention riser, riserless wireline intervention and hydraulic stimulation operations all in one package. According to
International marine and engineering consulting firm LOC Group has been awarded a new scope of work with Norwegian oil major Equinor.
Equinor has awarded two contracts and issued a letter of intent to TechnipFMC for pipelaying and subsea installation for three projects in Norway.
LNG giant Shell is not expecting to restart production at its Prelude FLNG facility offshore Western Australia before July. Shell hasn’t exported any cargoes from the FLNG for almost five months following an electrical trip on February 2. “Start-up timing will depend on Covid-19 constraints and comp
