The first in a series of specialist survey vessels have set sail from Swansea, marking an important step in the plans for the development of floating wind off the coast of Wales and South West England. Operated by Fugro with a crew of 30, the vessel will spend around 100 days at sea, using towed [&h
Fugro’s survey vessel Fugro Brasilis has arrived at the Port of Willemstad in Curaçao ahead of offshore surveys the company will perform as the Curaçao government is working on identifying areas for floating wind development. The work, scheduled to start today (17 July) and take place until 29 July,
Cyprus-headquartered seismic firm SeaBird Exploration has secured a two-year contract with a repeat client for services spanning several projects in the Western Hemisphere. Seabird reported on 14 July that it had signed a Letter of Award (LoA) for ocean bottom node (OBN) source services, with the co
OMV Norge, a subsidiary of Austria’s oil and gas company OMV, has appointed Shearwater GeoServices to conduct a “pioneering” towed streamer survey with ocean bottom nodes (OBN) over its gas and condensate discovery offshore Norway. Under the contract, Shearwater is set to begin the hybrid survey ove
Norwegian marine geophysical company PGS is set to complete its inaugural contract for ultra-high resolution 3D wind farm site characterization by the end of this month. PGS secured its first ultra-high resolution wind farm site characterization project at the beginning of the year, marking its entr
Site investigations are about to start at two locations in Scotland and the UK where Flotation Energy and its project partners plan to build the 480 MW Morecambe and the 1.4 GW Cenos offshore wind farms. At the Morecambe site, located about 30 kilometres from the Lancashire coast, a deep-sea geotech
Germany has found traces of subsea explosives in samples taken from a yacht that may have been used to transport the explosives that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, a letter sent to the UN Security Council states. Four gas leaks were found on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline
McDermott has won a “major” contract with Qatargas to deliver engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) for a subsea pipeline and cable project. McDermott will deliver EPCI for the North Field Production Sustainability (NFPS) Offshore Fuel Gas Pipeline and Subsea Cables Project
Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has awarded several contracts for surveys and studies for Denmark’s new offshore wind areas. Valued at a total of €19.8 million, the contracts secured by GEO.xyz, WSP Danmark, DNV, and LiveLink Aerospace include cable route surveys, consultancy ser
Prysmian Group has signed a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the German-Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT to provide nearshore cable inspection, maintenance, and repair services for TenneT’s HVDC and HVAC submarine power cables in the North Sea. The agreement will be fulfilled in par
Fugro has been appointed to carry out a hydrographic survey offshore Norway to collect datasets that are said to be essential for the sustainable development of new marine industries such as offshore wind. The contract is the latest in a series that Fugro secured with the Norwegian Hydrographic Serv
Energy consultancy Xodus has secured a contract to provide technical and project support services for the decommissioning of a floating production storage and offtake facility (FPSO) located in the Timor Sea off Australia. Xodus will be working on behalf of the Australian Government, providing advic
McDermott has revealed details about an offshore decommissioning contract it secured with Woodside Energy in May for work to be carried out in Western Australia. McDermott announced on 10 July that it had secured an engineering, procurement, and removal contract with the Australian energy giant for
Energy services provider Expro has secured a contract with what it says is a “major operator” for the first deployment of its single-valve subsea solution. According to Expro, the multi-functional single shear and seal mechanism will form part of a full subsea deepwater completion/intervention syste
