UXOcontrol has completed a UXO ID campaign for Vattenfall at the Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd offshore wind projects in Denmark. The work included conducting ten target locations in total, eight at Vesterhav North and two at Vesterhav South. This scope was conducted in July onboard the EDT Hercu
Kongsberg Maritime has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project to support the global initiative to produce the complete map of the ocean floor. Under the terms of the agreement, the two parties will work together to advance understanding of oce
UK engineering firm Forth is looking for assistance to bring the working prototype of a friction stir welding robotic crawler for oil pipeline repair to the commercial stage. The FSWBot is being developed to travel hundreds of miles down an oil pipeline to scan for defects and carry out subsequent r
CSA Ocean Sciences has completed a series of geophysical surveys as part of an ongoing campaign of nearshore multidisciplinary marine surveys at a U.S. offshore wind project. Research vessel Dolphin began the work along a critical export cable route in May at the project located off the Northeastern
PXGEO is deploying DownUnder GeoSolutions’ (DUG) data acquisition quality control and onboard processing and visualization software onboard the PXGEO 2. PXGEO stated it had signed an agreement with DUG for the provision of its DUG Insight software for its new Rolls-Royce designed 14-streamer seismic
Petrobras has awarded Fugro with a three-year contract for subsea inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) services in Brazil. The contract is set to begin in Q4 2021 and will be carried out from Fugro Aquarius using two Fugro-built 3000-meter work-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The award
Tekmar Group and DeepWater Buoyancy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together in the floating offshore wind sector. The partnership will offer a collective package of geotechnical assessment and engineering analysis, cable, and mooring system design, cable protection and stabi
Norwegian seismic player Axxis Geo Solutions (AGS) has completed the ROV-deployed ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the North Sea.
Magseis Fairfield has secured a contract to convey an ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in Asia for an undisclosed client.
AqualisBraemar LOC (ABL) has secured a contract to deliver Marine Warranty Survey (MWS) services for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm.
Six industry partners have kicked off a joint industry project to develop software that integrates all GIS, hydrographic, geophysical, geological, and geotechnical data types and contractor interpretations into one software environment. The software is being developed by Norway’s Geocap, while other
SEAJET Systems (SJS) has signed a manufacturing partnership agreement with Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) for subsea excavation and trenching technology. The partnership will see SMD exclusively build, test and commission the fleet of CFE equipment in its production facility in Wallsend, Newcastle upon
ConocoPhillips Australia SH1 has received approval from Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) to undertake the Sequoia 3D marine seismic survey. NOPSEMA accepted the plan on 10 August with conditions and/or limitations for the survey within e
Oceaneering has secured a contract with ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) to provide two surveys offshore Guyana. Under the contract, Oceaneering will deliver a towed and autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) geophysical survey and a shallow geotechnical surv
