Initial surveys of the area that the Lithuanian Government designated for the country’s first offshore wind farm have shown that the seabed there is suitable for the development of this type of project. Geophysical and geotechnical investigations of the seabed are being carried out by Geobaltic an
InterConnect Malta (ICM) has commenced offshore works of the preliminary marine route survey (PMRS) for the second Malta-Italy interconnector. Fugro is in charge of delivering the work using the 60-meter vessel Urbano Monti, which sailed out of the Grand Harbour on 25 August to start surveying the 6
Helix Robotics Solutions has won a contract with a local Thailand contractor to perform well abandonment and decommissioning services using the subsea construction vessel Grand Canyon II. The contract, which is 180-day firm-plus-options, includes the provision of DP3 vessel services, crane support a
An offshore geophysical survey campaign will soon start at the Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 located off the Wicklow coast in the Irish Sea. The goal of the survey is to provide site investigation information to facilitate the development of the Arklow Bank Wind Park. Work is anticipated to start at
HMH Holdings has completed the acquisition of Electrical Subsea & Drilling (ESD), a Norwegian company that holds a portfolio of patents and technology with applications in the oil and gas industry. HMH stated that ESD’s most promising technologies are those related to electronic blowout preventers a
Shearwater GeoServices has secured multiple contracts with a repeat customer for 2D and 3D seismic surveys offshore India. The awarded contracts comprise three 2D projects representing 13 vessel months of backlog, and two 3D projects for a further eight vessel months. Shearwater GeoServices is set t
Fugro has completed a series of trials and testing configurations for its new ultra ultra high resolution (UUHR) seismic system off the coast of the Netherlands. The SeisWind 3D system is designed to offer an efficient data acquisition footprint with the highest resolution to enable detailed ground
Norwegian survey services provider Magseis Fairfield has received a contract from a repeat client to deliver a project in the Gulf of Mexico. Magseis Fairfield received the conditional award for the project in September 2020 which has now been converted into an award. The project is scheduled to sta
N-Sea Group has taken full control, ownership and management of the multipurpose support vessel Geosea, after having completed vessel updates. N-Sea announced in April it had entered into an agreement with DOF Subsea Rederi to acquire Geosea. The aim of the acquisition is to strengthen the company’s
Helix Robotics Solutions and Volstad Maritime have agreed on five-year charter extensions for the Grand Canyon II and Grand Canyon III construction support vessels. Under the extensions, Volstad will upgrade both vessels with a new battery hybrid in an effort to reduce fuel consumption and emissions
Searcher Seismic has received approval from the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for the Tobago Trough multi-client 3D acquisition project. The acquisition is planned as a 6,500 km² wide-tow long streamer acquisition and processed through to Pre Stack Depth Migration. It will commen
Shearwater GeoServices has secured a seismic reprocessing project over Wheatstone, one of Australia’s largest producing gas fields, under a contract with Chevron Australia. Shearwater said it will deliver a “large” time-lapse 4D seismic imaging project over the field under an existing master contrac
Fugro has completed fieldwork on a geotechnical site investigation for SSE Renewables’ Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 located approximately 6 to 13 kilometers off the coast of Ireland. The offshore investigation works were performed aboard DEME’s jack-up vessel Neptune over an eight-week period. Fugr
The offshore site investigation works have commenced for Hexicon’s 32 MW TwinHub floating wind project in the Celtic Sea. The first phase of the survey works has been awarded to Aratellus Offshore, which has subcontracted Sulmara Subsea to perform the geophysical survey. The goal of the survey is to
