Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm Ltd. (NnGOWL) is set to replace the boulder clearance vessel Sartor with Vos Sweet at the 450 MW UK offshore wind project. Vos Sweet is expected to replace Sartor from 10 August to undertake the remaining seabed preparation works within the project site. The work
Bureau Veritas has completed, together with MaDfly – Marine Drone Services, the first full in-water ship’s hull survey with a mini remotely operated vehicle (ROV).
RTE Réseau de Transport d’Electricité has selected MMT SWEDEN AB to carry out the unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey along the export cable route of the Calvados offshore wind farm. The 448 MW Calvados offshore wind farm is being developed by Éolien Maritime France (EMF) and wpd. EMF is a joint ventur
Magseis Fairfield has won a contract to carry out an ocean bottom node survey (OBN) in the North Sea for the repeat client.
Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has accepted Beach Energy’s plan to undertake subsea installation and commissioning works within petroleum production licence VIC/L23. The activities are part of the Otway Phase 4 Development project which
A geotechnical survey is set to begin along the proposed export cable route at the Seagreen Phase 1A offshore wind farm.
Metocean studies for the Erebus and Valorous projects, the first floating wind farms to be built in Welsh waters, are now underway, the developer Blue Gem Wind reported on 27 July. The studies, which will support the design of the two floating wind projects, are being performed by ABPmer, which will
TotalEnergies and Green Investment Group (GIG) are set to commence survey work at a site offshore the UK where they plan to build a wind farm through a newly set up joint venture company, whose name was revealed in the project’s update on the upcoming offshore activities.
PGS and CGG have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to combine their seismic multi-client products and technical capabilities applied to the carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) sector. The seismic players stated they want to join forces and unlock the value of existing seismic data
The consortium of PGS, TGS and Schlumberger’s WesternGeco has secured pre-funding for a 6,400 square kilometer multi-client 3D survey in the Sarawak Basin off the coast of Malaysia. The survey is the first phase of a multi-year contract awarded by Petronas last year to acquire and process up to 105,
An uncrewed surface vessel (USV) is set to begin a hydrographic survey at the operational Gwynt y Môr offshore wind project located off the North Wales Coast. The USV will be performing the hydrographic survey of the export routes from 26 July for up to 7 days until 2 August, subject to weather cond
E&P company Neptune Energy has selected Fugro for subsea inspection of its Cygnus field in the UK’s southern North Sea.
Canadian marine technology company Kraken Robotics has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 3D acoustic imaging specialist PanGeo Subsea. PanGeo’s assets consist primarily of human capital, know-how and equipment comprised mostly of sub-bottom imaging units and acoustic imaging units that are us
A new set of surveys is now underway at the Mayflower Wind site offshore Massachusetts, where a joint venture of Shell New Energies US and EDPR Offshore North America plans to build an 804 MW offshore wind farm. As part of a geophysical and geotechnical (G&G) survey campaign which started with geoph
