Norway’s Solstad Maritime has secured new contracts for several anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTS) and a construction support vessel (CSV) that combined have a firm duration of approximately 700 vessel days. The AHTS Normand Saracen and Normand Scorpion have been awarded contracts with an und
As a pipeline shutdown saga continues in California, Sable Offshore, a Texas-headquartered oil and gas company, is looking to get hundreds of millions in damages as part of the escalation of its dispute with the California Coastal Commission.
Ireland-headquartered oil & gas company United Oil & Gas has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with U.S.-headquartered TDI-Brooks International to secure a specialist survey vessel for a planned survey program offshore Jamaica. TDI Brooks‘ survey vessel Gyre will perform a pisto
Jan De Nul has signed a contract with Synera Renewable Energy (SRE) for the installation of subsea export cables on the Formosa 4 offshore wind farm. SRE has also selected the Belgian offshore construction contractor for export cables on its Formosa 6 offshore wind project. Under the contract for Fo
Remazel Engineering, a company of Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri, has secured a contract for the delivery of a high-capacity rock placement system for Jan De Nul’s recently ordered subsea rock installation vessel (SRIV). Jan De Nul reported some ten days ago that it had ordered the new SRIV,
Houston-based subsea energy equipment and services specialist KOIL Energy Solutions has secured a contract to deliver subsea distribution equipment for a project in the Gulf of America (the U.S. Gulf of Mexico), operated by an “international operator”. Under the contract defined as significant, KOIL
Vard has cut the first steel for Norwind Offshore’s energy construction vessel (ECV), the first vessel of this category, according to the two companies. A steel-cutting ceremony was held on October 6 at Vard Vung Tau shipyard in Vietnam, kicking off the construction of the vessel, which Norwind Offs
London-headquartered energy services provider Hunting has begun the delivery of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) accessories to support deepwater drilling operations offshore Guyana, described by the company as a strategically important energy region. Hunting secured the $20 million contract early t
Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group is in charge of building two next-generation offshore support tugs (OSTs) for work in the Gulf of Mexico with Woodside Energy, an Australian energy giant.
Oslo-headquartered Fred. Olsen 1848 has unveiled its Tension Buoy concept, designed to maintain stable mooring tension for floating solar installations in reservoirs and hydropower dams with large water-level variations. The solution addresses one of the main technical barriers to pairing floating
AKOFS Offshore, an Oslo-headquartered provider of vessel-based subsea well construction and intervention services, has secured a firm contract for one of its vessels that ensures it will continue working for Brazilian oil & gas giant Petrobras. Following a competitive tender process that resulted in
G-Tec has started geophysical survey work for ELWIND, an offshore wind project that Estonia and Latvia will build together. The Belgian company’s survey vessel Karina has been investigating the seabed in the ELWIND offshore wind farm areas in Estonia and Latvia since early September, with the work e
Norwegian vessel owner DOF Group has placed an order with UK’s Forum Energy Technologies (FET) for a work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) with a supporting tether management system. The equipment, expected to be delivered late this year, will support DOF’s subsea operations in Brazil. Accordin
Energy and marine consultancy ABL has been selected to provide marine warranty survey services to support the installation of Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2), said to be the UK’s largest electricity transmission project and the longest high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable. Developed by a joint ventu
