Amid the process of rebranding its offshore streamer fleet, Norwegian seismic company TGS has secured the extension of an existing ocean bottom node (OBN) data acquisition contract in North America. The four-month extension to the existing contract will build on existing operations, enhancing the cl
Correll Group, a subsidiary of SPIE Global Services Energy, has been awarded two multi-year framework agreements from Vattenfall to carry out cable testing and fault finding for Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms in Europe. The two framework agreements cover Vattenfall’s existing and potential new off
Norway-based ocean services provider DeepOcean has secured a five-year contract extension with a Mexican company that provides services and solutions for the oil industry for its construction and subsea vessel. Thanks to the contract extension with Diavaz, DeepOcean’s Arbol Grande vessel will work o
A 1981-built non-propelled self-elevating cantilever jack-up rig has mobilized for the commencement of what will be the UK’s first CO2 well injection test. Perenco UK and Carbon Catalyst Limited secured a license to progress the Poseidon CCS project at the Leman gas fields in the UK southern North S
Geotechnical survey work is set to start this month at the West of Orkney Windfarm site offshore Scotland. The survey to ascertain sub-seabed characteristics at the project site will be carried out by Geo using the survey vessel Connector, starting on or around August 30. The campaign will take appr
Perth-headquartered InCapture has secured a permit for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) assessment project on the North West Shelf in Australia, aiming to launch a fully operational CCS project by the early 2030s. The greenhouse gas assessment (GHG) permit G-15-AP spans an area of over 6,500 km2 a
A multibeam echosounder (MBES) geophysical survey of the Dogger Bank D offshore wind site, using several uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), is scheduled to start on August 13. According to information in the project’s Notice to Mariners, XOCEAN will deploy multiple USVs to survey the wind turbine arra
U.S.-based developer of subsea autonomous robotic systems and software Nauticus Robotics has entered into a partnership with Florida Atlantic University (FAU) for the further testing of its flagship underwater vehicle Aquanaut Mark 2. The partners will perform vehicle development testing in protecte
Norway’s energy data and intelligence provider TGS is busy with 2D seismic survey reprocessing assignments off the coast of Indonesia. While the firm has wrapped up one of these jobs in the Sumatra basin, tying key discoveries in the region to open acreage, two more are ongoing, one in Seram Basin a
Australian specialist carbon capture and storage (CCS) developers deepC Store and Azuli (Australia), a wholly-owned subsidiary of UK’s Azuli International, have secured two greenhouse gas assessment (GHG) acreages in the Bonaparte and Browse Basins off Australia. The partners also entered into a joi
Fugro is set to soon deploy its autonomous uncrewed surface vessel (USV) Fugro Vaquita at the Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland. The USV, which Fugro took delivery of at the beginning of this year, will conduct a non-intrusive uncrewed survey campaign at several wind locations. According to a
U.S. subsea engineering and applied technology firm Oceaneering International is set to deliver inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) support services offshore Norway under a new contract with Aker BP. The contract was awarded to the company’s Norwegian subsidiary Oceaneering AS, which will mobi
Fugro has completed four years of continuous survey operations for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind in New York and New Jersey, where the company was supporting the site assessment for five offshore wind projects across three lease areas. According to Fugro, a new data collection and management approac
TDI-Brooks has won a new geotechnical survey assignment at a natural gas project off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago, which is operated by Woodside.
