Following the announcement about a deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) contract in Angola from earlier today, Norway’s Shearwater GeoServices has now reported the award of Ghana’s first deepwater OBN seismic survey. The OBN seismic survey will cover the Jubilee and TEN fields operated by Tullow Oil, a
Norway’s Reach Subsea has sent off its uncrewed surface vessel (USV) on a trip to Australia where it will provide reservoir monitoring for Australia’s energy giant Woodside Energy. The Reach Remote 2 USV, which Reach Subsea took delivery of in June, is currently travelling to Australia to perform re
Norway’s Shearwater GeoServices has secured another contract in Africa, this time for a deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey it will perform for ExxonMobil in Angola. The two-month project, secured with ExxonMobil’s affiliate Esso Exploration Angola Block 15 Limited, will begin during th
Marine geophysical service provider PXGEO has won its first contract in Malaysia, as part of which it will deliver offshore seismic data acquisition services using its seismic vessel PXGEO 2. The two-year agreement with a new client includes a minimum commitment of 365 days of acquisition activity o
Norway’s VARD is set to perform an extensive conversion of a seismic research vessel into a seismic source vessel for compatriot company Sanco Shipping. Following Sanco Shipping’s takeover of the PGS Apollo, now renamed Sanco Sailor, on July 31, the vessel sailed directly to Vard Langsten. VARD said
Joint venture partners Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies have injected and stored the first CO2 volumes at the Northern Lights CO2 project in the Norwegian North Sea, marking the start of operations of what is said to be the world’s first third-party CO2 transport and storage facility. The first CO2
Thailand-headquartered subsea and offshore drilling services company Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited has established a joint venture in Taiwan with ATE Energy International, a Taiwanese company specializing in the energy engineering sector. Mermaid Subsea Services (Thailand) Limited holds a
The UK National Grid has completed the award of its high-voltage direct current (HVDC) civil works supply chain framework, with £12 billion (around €13.9 billion) worth of agreements confirmed, marking the third and final stage of its £59 billion supply chain framework awards. The HVDC supply chain
Semco Maritime, a Danish engineering and contracting company operating in the conventional energy sector and offshore wind, has partnered up with London-headquartered start-up Stormborn to help bring unmanned surface vessel (USV) technology to market. Semco Maritime announced that it had made an inv
As part of its goal to become a full-service partner across the energy lifecycle, Dubai-headquartered engineering and services company Kent has signed a binding agreement to acquire Exceed (XCD) Holdings Limited, a Scottish provider of well management, subsurface and decommissioning engineering serv
A flexible, large subsea construction vessel owned by Norwegian DOF Group has been contracted on a four-year term charter with Brazil’s oil & gas company Petrobras. Under the contract valued at approximately $165 million, Skandi Salvador will operate with two work-class remotely operated vehicles (R
Norway’s Reach Subsea has performed a subsea inspection campaign at TotalEnergies’ fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) using its Reach Remote 1 uncrewed surface vessel (USV). The annual inspection of subsea production systems and Xmas trees also included integrity checks, assessment of a
Brazil’s state-owned oil & gas giant Petrobras has awarded compatriot OceanPact with four new contracts worth approximately BRL 3.2 billion (around $640 million) for the charter of remotely operated vehicle (ROV) support vessels (RSVs). Founded in 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, OceanPact offers services fo
Norway’s Kongsberg Discovery, Kongsberg Gruppen’s business area for robotics and sensor technology, is set to acquire active and passive electromagnetic sensing capabilities from Argeo’s bankruptcy estate. To remind, it was reported on July 7 that Norwegian subsea services provider Argeo and its Nor
