Sercel, CGG’s seismic equipment business, has made its first major sale of the recently launched GPR300 seabed nodal solution to geophysical services provider BGP. The sale includes 18,000 nodes that will be deployed in Q4 2021 on a large-scale, long-term, multi-vessel operation in the Middle East r
Seismic firm SeaBird Exploration has signed a letter of intent (LOI) for a source vessel contract in the Western Hemisphere. SeaBird’s 80-metre long source vessel Fulmar Explorer would carry out the work programme for a “leading operator”. The contract is expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2
Kongsberg Maritime’s new deep-water multibeam echosounder system has completed its first trials onboard the NOAA vessel Okeanos Explorer offshore Florida. Okeanos Explorer is the first vessel to be fitted with the EM 304 MKII transmit array, a comprehensive upgrade to the EM 302 deep-water multibeam
The main phase of geotechnical surveys has begun at the site of the planned Baltic Power offshore wind farm and along the project’s connection route.
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has secured £670,000 in funding for a research project that will take robot submarine Boaty McBoatface around end-of-life oil and gas fields. The Autonomous Techniques for infraStructure Ecological Assessment (AT-SEA) project will trial the concept of using sub
A shallow geotechnical survey is about to begin within the export cable area at the Seagreen Phase 1A wind farm offshore Scotland.
NCS SubSea has secured a contract to carry out a 4D P-Cable ultrahigh-resolution (UHR) monitor survey in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico. NCS SubSea did not reveal any details about the client, nor the project, but did state that it will be the fourth P-Cable UHR seismic survey over this field. Th
RWE Renewables, through its Polish subsidiary Baltic Trade & Invest Sp. z o.o., has signed Letters of Intent (LoI) with three Polish companies from the maritime sector, which will support the construction of the FEW Baltic II 350 MW offshore wind project in Poland. RWE has entered into cooperation w
NDT inspections specialist TSC Subsea has opened a new base in Rio de Janeiro as part of its plans to expand across Brazil and further into Latin America. TSC Subsea had so far supported Brazil remotely but decided to open a permanent base in response to increased operations. The company, which has
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has given the green light to Energinet to start preliminary offshore investigations at the areas in the Baltic Sea where the country could build two offshore wind farms that would be connected to the planned energy island on Bornholm. Based on the permit from the DEA,
3D at Depth and SEA.O.G. Offshore have entered into a collaboration agreement with the goal of reducing carbon emissions for subsea survey operations.
Vineyard Wind has scheduled two geophysical survey operations in the Vineyard Wind’s lease area.
Fugro has completed the first phase of a two-year contract with Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind to build and manage a centralised, cloud-hosted Geo-data repository for the company’s lease development off the coast of New Jersey in the US. The web-based engagement platform was recently delivered and ut
Norway-based Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has secured a 4D acquisition contract from ExxonMobil for work offshore Guyana.
