Norwegian vessel management services provider Aurora Offshore, part of the Borealis Group, has taken delivery of the eleventh and final vessel from compatriot operator Sea1 Offshore, ex-Siem Offshore. Siem Barracuda, the third high-end subsea vessel of a total of three that are part of the collabora
Members of the Subsea Integration Alliance (SIA), United States’ OneSubsea and United Kindgom’s Subsea7, have delivered and installed a structure forming the base of a project being developed by Norway’s oil and gas company OKEA in the North Sea.
London-headquartered precision engineering group Hunting PLC has secured a $31 million subsea order for its titanium stress joints (TSJs) for the third phase of a deepwater gas development in the Turkish part of the Black Sea. Six TSJs, including the patented Direct Pull-thru Tube technology, will b
Van Oord has placed an order with a Chinese shipyard for two next-generation subsea rock installation vessels that will be capable of operating on methanol. The vessels, to be constructed by Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore in China, will be equipped with a loading capacity of 35,000 tons, will be capab
South Korean subsea cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has completed the construction of what it says is the largest high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable production facility in Asia. LS Cable & System announced on July 16 that it had completed the construction of its fifth submarine cable plan
Prysmian’s Leonardo da Vinci, said to be the world’s largest cable laying vessel (CLV), has begun the second phase of cable laying in UK waters for NeuConnect, a high-voltage submarine cable that will create the first direct energy transmission link between the UK and Germany. Prysmian completed the
South Korean Taihan Cable & Solution is investing $360 million for the first phase of construction of its second submarine cable manufacturing facility, which will once operational deliver a production capacity nearly five times greater than the company’s first submarine cable plant. Taihan opened t
Subsea7 has secured two new contracts, one with Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor for work in Norway and the other with UK-headquartered energy firm Shell for the provision of services in the U.S. Namely, Subsea7 announced the award of a large contract, worth between $300 million and $500
Denmark-headquartered power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT has selected Helix Robotics Solutions Limited, the UK robotics division of Helix Energy Solutions Group, as the service provider for what is said to be the world’s most powerful subsea trencher. NKT and Helix Robotics entered i
Allseas has resumed pipelaying for the first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the Netherlands after a one-month break caused by a technical issue. Allseas’ purpose-built offshore construction vessel (OCV) Oceanic was in charge of a special unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey along t
UK-based subsea technology company Vesipro has supplied 1,366 meters of its Blue Ocean Protectors (BOP0130, 120 millimeter bore) to support the installation of a 33 kV subsea power cable at a high-current tidal energy site in Orkney, Scotland. According to the UK-based company, the site is known for
Siemens Energy has been appointed as the preferred bidder for the delivery of two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter stations for the fourth out of five subsea electricity superhighways between Scotland and England. This news for the Eastern Green Link 4 (EGL4) project comes as National Gr
CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA), a marine environmental consulting firm, has shed light on a scientific discovery at an offshore natural gas platform in the Mediterranean Sea, which has spurred subsequent investigation among faculty members at Tel Aviv University and collaborating partners in the regi
Norwegian shipping company Solstad Offshore has secured a contract with Brazilian oil & gas player Petrobras for a construction support vessel (CSV) built in 1999. The CSV Normand Pioneer will be on a bareboat contract from the vessel owner Solstad Maritime ASA (SOMA) to Solstad Offshore, which is t
