Two survey activities are planned to start this month at the Empire Wind offshore wind farm site located about 20 miles south of Long Island. The first is a short-term underwater sediment survey campaign, planned to begin in late June. The sediment survey experts will sample the seabed along the pro
A floating LiDAR device has been deployed at the Ichnusa Wind Power Project site some 35 kilometres off the coast of Sardinia to monitor wind and wave conditions. The floating LiDAR campaign, the first of its kind for an offshore wind project in Sardinia, is being managed by Akrocean. Monitoring wil
Scotland’s remote technology specialist Air Control Entech (ACE) has received the DNV class approval for Hydromea’s EXRAY underwater inspection robot for visual remote inspection technology (RIT). EXRAY, developed by Swiss underwater robotics company Hydromea, is an underwater inspection robot that
Oil and gas services provider Hartshead Resources NL (HHR) has awarded Geoquip Marine Operations with a contract to perform a geotechnical survey for field developments located in the Southern North Sea. Following a competitive tender and evaluation process, Geoquip has been appointed to deliver a g
A preliminary geophysical and environmental survey campaign has started at the Muir Mhòr floating wind project site in Scotland, being developed by Fred. Olsen Seawind and Vattenfall. The survey campaign will take place along the export cable corridor for the Muir Mhòr floating offshore wind project
The Correll Group, Electrical Engineering Division has secured a contract with Prysmian Powerlink for the testing and terminations of the 66 kV inter-array cables and offshore substation topside on the GodeWind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. The project will be completed in
Poland’s GAZ-SYSTEM has appointed an Australian engineering and project delivery services company to provide technical assistance in integrity management and supervision during the operations of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline. Under the five-year agreement, Perth-headquartered SEA Global will perform
Northland Power has selected Subsea Europe Services as its partner for a pilot project at the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm that will place autonomous marine survey and underwater inspection at the heart of its operations and maintenance (O&M) programmes. Northland Power will task Subsea Europe
Norwegian seismic company TGS is planning to carry out the first 2D-cubed project offshore Brazil, a technology said to enable the transformation of 2D data into a 3D volume that can be interpreted on a regional scale. The Amazonia Azul 2D-cubed project represents an expansion of TGS’ multi-client d
Dutch thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) producer Strohm has secured a contract with Brazilian oil and gas company PRIO, formerly PetroRio, to provide its composite pipe solutions for a field offshore Brazil. Under the award, Strohm has already delivered two sets of TCP Jumpers for gas lift service,
Subsea 7 has secured an extension of the existing frame agreement with Aker BP under which it will continue providing subsea services for the company’s developments on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Under the agreement, Subsea 7 will provide engineering, fabrication and installation activiti
Dubai-headquartered marine geophysical company PXGEO has placed an order with Saab for the delivery of over 20 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for a value of approximately €53.3 million. The order includes more than 20 Sabertooth vehicles making it Saab’s largest Sabertooth order to date, the
Oslo-headquartered ocean services provider DeepOcean has won a contract to deliver post-lay trenching works on 30 kilometers of pipeline offshore Mexico. According to DeepOcean, the contract award comes on the back of over 300 kilometers of completed trenching scopes offshore Mexico on pipelines ran
PXGEO and Saab have developed what is said to be a next-generation ocean bottom node (OBN) handling system in a push to make offshore seismic data acquisition fully autonomous. According to the partners, the next-generation MantaRay OBN handling system uses hovering autonomous underwater vehicles (H
