Ørsted has awarded three multi-year framework agreements for fault-finding, diagnostic and dry repair of cables at its offshore wind farms in the UK, the U.S., and Taiwan to Correll Group. The agreements have been signed for an initial period of three years and Ørsted has also selected the UK-based
Norwegian Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has secured contracts with a combined value of approximately $3.4 million with Equinor and partners for surveys in Norway. EMGS reported at the end of May that it had entered into several agreements with Equinor and partners for fully pre-funded multi-cli
Norway-headquartered Reach Subsea has exercised the option to extend the contract for one of Havila Shipping’s inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR), survey, and construction vessels, on improved terms than previously agreed. Reach Subsea has entered into an agreement with Havila Shipping to ext
Cyprus-headquartered seismic firm SeaBird Exploration has secured a contract with a repeat client that will take its seismic research vessel Eagle Explorer to the Western Hemisphere. The duration of the contract is six months, including options to extend by another 6+6 months. Mobilization has start
Norwegian seismic company PGS has received the final permit for a large 4D survey for Petrobras in the Campos basin off the coast of Brazil.
Solstad Offshore’s subsea construction vessel (CSV) Normand Navigator is preparing for a new project with the mobilization of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The 2015-built Normand Navigator arrived at Husøy, Karmøy in Norway, this week for the mobilization of ROVs from Omega Subsea Robotics, a j
U.S. technology company Oceaneering has carried out a pipeline inspection industrial pilot using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for TotalEnergies, as part of the French energy giant’s ambition to become a net-zero company. The North Sea pilot using the Freedom AUV saw the inspection of over
Preparations are currently underway for a CO2 injection test at a carbon capture and storage (CCS) license in the North Sea that encompasses the “UK’s largest depleted gas field”. Perenco UK and Carbon Catalyst Limited secured a license to progress their Poseidon CCS project at the Leman gas fields
Malaysian oil and gas services provider Sapura Energy has completed what it says is the first reverse S-lay pipeline operation in Asia. The company’s heavy-lift pipelaying vessel Sapura 1200 performed the reverse S-lay pipeline decommissioning technique in a pipeline removal campaign in Thailand. Sa
The Celtic Interconnector is starting to take shape and the offshore cable installation work is slated to begin in 2025.
Cyan Renewables, a portfolio company of Seraya Partners, and Ocean Infinity have teamed up to provide geophysical and geotechnical services for offshore wind projects in the Asia-Pacific region. The companies have formalized their partnership through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU
The UK’s North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has revealed its intention to introduce a levy on carbon storage licenses in the future, once the carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry begins operating on a more self-sustaining basis. The NSTA ran a call for evidence between December 4, 2023, and
Norway-based ocean services provider DeepOcean has completed subsea dredging operations remotely from shore for the first time ever. This milestone activity was carried out for Norwegian oil and gas player Aker BP. DeepOcean’s remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) onboard the Edda Fauna were utilized fo
Rovco has been selected for site characterization work on the 1.5 GW Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind project in the UK. With the project scheduled to start imminently, the UK-based company will be responsible for carrying out a full geophysical investigation of several key sites at Outer Dowsing Offshor
