South Korean subsea cable installation company LS Marine Solution has signed a contract with Türkiye’s Tersan Shipyard for the construction of its new, ultra-large cable laying vessel (CLV). To expand orders for large-scale HVDC and offshore wind projects, both domestic and in Europe and North Ameri
The Hague-based Wave Energy Collective (Weco) has entered the building phase of its upgraded wave energy converter (WEC), Kaizen 2.0, together with Holland Shipyards Group. The project is said to build on a longstanding collaboration between Weco and the Dutch shipyard, which supported the developer
Fugro has made what it says is an industry-first for pipelay support services, performing a remote survey for a 433-kilometer trunkline offshore Western Australia using its Blue Essence uncrewed surface vessel (USV). Fugro conducted a series of survey campaigns said to have played a critical role in
The partially outfitted hull of a new cable-laying vessel (CLV) being built for Nexans has started its journey from Poland to Norway, where it will be finalized. Based on an ST-297 CLV design by Skipsteknisk, Nexans Electra, ordered as the second vessel by Nexans at Norway’s Ulstein Verft, is an upd
Jan De Nul has pulled two export cables for the 1,080 MW Thor offshore wind farm, currently under construction in Denmark. The export cables will transport clean, renewable electricity from the offshore site 22 kilometers out in the North Sea to the Danish mainland. In 2023, Jan De Nul, together wit
DOF Group has won another set of long-term assignments off the coast of Brazil for one of its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels and a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) support vessel (RSV), with the country’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras.
Brazilian oil & gas giant Petrobras and Dutch geo-data specialist Fugro have expanded their decades-long partnership with four multi-year contracts that together have an approximate value of $340 million. Following a tender procedure, Fugro has been awarded four multi-year, day-rate contracts for th
A construction support vessel (CSV) owned by Norway’s shipping player Rem Offshore has begun working for Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor following an extensive rebuild and mobilization project. In pursuit of more sustainable operations, efficiency enhancements, and cost savings, Rem Offsh
Shell has brought online a new phase of its natural gas field in the Norwegian Sea, which is set to augment the amount of gas recovered from the asset, bolstering Europe’s energy security.
The UK Government has decided to reject the huge £25 billion (around €29.5 billion) project that would import 11.5 GW of solar and wind power from Morocco to the British grid via 4,000-kilometer HVDC subsea cables. The Xlinks Morocco-UK power project envisions the development of a commercial-scale r
The Italy-based global power cable manufacturer Prysmian will supply subsea export cables for the HydroWing tidal energy array, led by UK-based Inyanga Marine Energy Group at the Morlais site off Anglesey, Wales. Scheduled for deployment in early 2026, the HydroWing array aims to deliver 20 MW of pr
A couple of months after securing a contract for an oil project off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Dutch geo-data specialist Fugro has been appointed to support a deepwater gas project in the Eastern Mediterranean. Italy’s energy company Eni has awarded Fugro with a contract to perform a co
France’s energy giant TotalEnergies has awarded Norway’s Shearwater GeoServices with a contract to perform marine seismic acquisition at an offshore block in São Tomé and Príncipe, West Africa, it entered last year. The project is the first under a three-year firm capacity reservation agreement (CRA
SLB OneSubsea has secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor for a subsea CO2 injection system destined for the second phase of the Northern Lights CO2 transport and storage project. Northern Lights constitutes the transport,
