Manor Renewable Energy (MRE) has purchased the Isambard Brunel, a new survey vessel that will join the company’s fleet. The vessel will be renamed Manor Brunel and will undergo engineering works, survey equipment updates and repainting at the Manor Marine site in Portland, Dorset, following the firs
MMA has completed a survey work scope at Formosa 2 offshore wind project located off the coast of Taiwan.
Anbaric Development Partners has concluded the second set of oceanographic survey activities for its Boardwalk Power Link (BPL) project which will connect offshore wind energy to New Jersey’s onshore grid. Led by ESS Group in concert with Ocean Surveys, the two sets of surveys looked specifically at
Norwegian seismic firm TGS has commenced the multi-client Phase 4 3D survey in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The survey is taking place in the western portion of the Santos Basin and works as a northwest extension of the existing TGS Santos 3D, covering approximately 5,000 square kilometers. The
Van Oord has placed an order with Demcon Unmanned Systems for its second autonomous survey vessel. The move comes after Van Oord deployed its first unmanned survey vessel VO:X Metiri last year at projects in the Netherlands. According to the Dutch company, the idea for VO:X Metiri originated in its
CGG has secured a contract by Equinor to carry out ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic imaging at the Bacalhau offshore field in Brazil. The project is already underway at CGG’s subsurface imaging center in Rio de Janeiro where its team is employing proprietary imaging technologies to address pre-salt i
The first ship ever sailed to the future energy island in the Danish North Sea on Monday, 3 May. MMT’s Relume will undertake seabed mapping at the site which will ensure that the construction of the energy island and the hundreds of wind turbines takes place in a technically sustainable way, Energin
Brazilian SM Continental, part of James Fisher group, has won a contract to provide ROV services to oil and gas company Petrobras. The two parties signed the agreement for a period of two years. “These new services and the growing customer base mean that the James Fisher group now has a well-establi
The UK-based Fellows International has completed the UXO target investigation scope at the Formosa 2 offshore wind project in Taiwan. After the completion of the marine geophysical survey, Fellows International gathered and recorded individual UXO target information using remotely operated vehicles
Norway’s Reach Subsea has reported its best-ever first-quarter financial results, said to be driven by high utilization and project execution. Revenue for the first quarter of 2021 was NOK 101.8 million (approximately USD 12.2 million) compared with NOK 78.8 million for Q1 2020, primarily explained
PanGeo Subsea is working with Jan De Nul in Taiwan on a cable depth of burial survey at the Formosa 2 offshore wind farm, with PanGeo’s sub-seabed 3D acoustic imaging technology being used for the campaign. According to the subsea imaging technology company, which delivered its Sub Bottom Imager (SB
U.S.-based underwater technology company EdgeTech has introduced a new combined tri-frequency side-scan sonar and sub-bottom profiling sonar system. The 2050-DSS is developed for cable and pipeline surveys, marine construction surveys, as well as pre and post-dredging surveys, among others. The syst
Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) will take over the management of four Wilson Offshore’s offshore supply vessels (OSVs) designed for accommodation, cargo transfers, walk-to-work (W2W), survey, and ROV operations. Under a cooperation agreement with the ship owner Wilson Offshore, N-O-S will take ov
A series of geophysical surveys is set to kick off at the Codling offshore wind project in Ireland on 26 April. Vessel LB Jill will undertake geotechnical operations to characterize the project site located approximately 13 km off the East Coast of Ireland, near Wicklow. The surveys are planned to b
