Norwegian shipping company Solstad Offshore has secured another contract with Brazilian oil & gas company Petrobras for a construction support vessel (CSV). The CSV Normand Commander will be on a bareboat contract from the vessel owner Solstad Maritime (SOMA) to Solstad Offshore, who holds the contr
France’s cable systems designer and manufacturer, Nexans, has partnered with Crowley Wind Services to develop and operate a Jones Act-compliant cable lay barge, aiming to support subsea transmission work for offshore wind and other industries across the U.S.. The 300-foot barge, flagged and crewed i
Norway’s oil and gas company OKEA is getting ready to welcome a drilling rig managed by Odfjell Drilling to the location of its North Sea tie-back project, where drilling activities are set to kick off next week.
The Northern Lights joint venture (JV) has taken delivery of nine new CO2 storage tanks at its Øygarden site in Norway, marking a key step in the development of Phase 2 of the project. The tanks were safely unloaded with support from Equinor, acting as the project’s technical service provider (TSP),
Hunting Subsea Technologies, the Texas-based subsidiary of London-headquartered precision engineering group Hunting, has provided the connections for the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) to be deployed at a field offshore Guyana being developed by U.S energy giant ExxonMobil.
The Netherlands-headquartered Fugro has secured a series of contracts for offshore and onshore site surveys in the United Arab Emirates, supporting two of the country’s largest energy field development programs. Work is set to begin in August 2025. The scope includes geophysical and geotechnical inv
Aquaterra Energy, a UK-headquartered offshore energy engineering solutions provider, has secured a two-year extension to its offshore analysis services contract in Egypt, supporting what is described as a “major” operator’s subsea well campaigns. Under the initial contract awarded in 2023, the UK-ba
ZTT Submarine Cable & System (ZTTSC) has secured a 500 kV submarine cable contract for Shenzhen Energy’s 500 MW Honghai Bay VI offshore wind project in China. The engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract encompasses 94 kilometers of 500 kV 3-core HVAC submarine cables
IKM Testing UK, a company within the IKM Group, has appointed Barry Summers as its new Regional Director, following the retirement of Mark Rasmusen. The move comes as the company reports £23 million (approximately €26,5 million) in new contract awards during the first half of 2025, just 14% short of
Prysmian has awarded two contracts to Next Geosolutions (NextGeo), one of which is in the Dutch offshore wind market, where NextGeo will carry out export cable route surveys for the IJmuiden Ver Alpha and Nederwiek 1 offshore wind sites. The second contract NextGeo secured with Prysmian is for the B
Geotechnical surveys have commenced for the Lillebælt Syd offshore wind farm in Denmark, being developed by TotalEnergies, European Energy, and Danish utility company SONFOR. In the coming months, a jack-up will conduct test drilling for the eleven turbine locations at the Lillebælt Syd wind farm si
Denmark-based underwater technology specialist MacArtney Underwater Technology Group has completed production and assembly of 20 junction boxes and 1,000 meters of subsea cable for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE). “A significant milestone has been reached for the P-ONE project – and we
U.S.-based developer of subsea autonomous robotic systems and software, Nauticus Robotics, has signed a master services agreement (MSA) with Florida-based Advanced Ocean Systems (AOS) to support joint development of autonomous and remote offshore technologies. According to Nauticus Robotics, the mul
Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has completed the Dawson Phase III 3D seismic survey in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, marking its first new multi-client seismic project in British Columbia since 2019. The survey is said to span 141 square kilometers and has been merged w
