UK-headquartered energy services provider Expro has secured a new contract with Harbour Energy for a well abandonment campaign as part of a decommissioning project on the UK Continental Shelf. The multi-year contract, valued at more than $20 million, will see Expro use its Subsea Well Access technol
The UK’s first-of-its-kind national robotics center for offshore renewable energy has been opened at Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s testing facility in Blyth. The Digital, Autonomous and Robotics Engineering (DARE) Centre will provide an opportunity for developers, researchers and the wi
TechnipFMC has secured what it describes as a “significant” contract with Equinor to provide riserless light well intervention (RLWI) services on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Under the agreement, TechnipFMC will provide production enhancement, production data, and pre-plug-and-abandonment
Italian oilfield services provider Saipem has secured two new offshore contracts with an overall value of approximately $850 million. Saipem has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by Turkish Petroleum OTC for the second phase of the Sakarya FEED a
A geophysical and UXO survey is set to begin at the end of this month for an interconnector that will link the UK and Germany for the first time. Geociencias y Exploraciones Marítimas (GEM) will perform a survey of the route for the installation of the NeuConnect Interconnector, nominally 705 kilome
Helix Energy Solutions’ semi-submersible vessel Q7000 has arrived at Port Taranaki in New Zealand to commence the third phase of a field decommissioning project. Q7000, which arrived at the port on 16 May, will plug and abandon the wells across the Tui field as part of Phase 3 of decommissioning act
Belgium-based Marlinks has secured its first major contract in Taiwan for the cable health monitoring services of the export and inter-array cables of the 1,044 MW Hai Long offshore wind farm. The contract awarded covers the design, supply, installation, commissioning of monitoring hardware, and ong
Survey activities are ramping up at Ocean Winds’ Caledonia offshore wind farm site with a pair of floating LiDAR devices soon to be deployed in the Scottish waters. The wind farm’s developer, Ocean Winds, said it is laying the groundwork for its comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), a
Van Oord has set a new world record by carrying out subsea rock installation works in a water depth of 1,364 meters, a distance said to be comparable to almost five times the length of the Eiffel Tower. The activities were conducted by the company’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes at the Sangomar f
Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has awarded Fugro a contract to deploy multiple floating LiDARs at the new offshore wind farm sites in Denmark. There are four new sites the Danish government has designated for offshore wind farms, which could add as much as 7.2 GW of new capacity
Switzerland-based autonomous underwater robotics company Hydromea has partnered up with Unplugged, a Norwegian firm focused on inductive charging and data transfer technology, to develop a resident underwater drone system for the inspection and monitoring of underwater assets. Under the project, the
French major TotalEnergies has awarded Norway’s Shearwater GeoServices with a contract to carry out surveys over its gas fields located west of Shetland, offshore the UK. Under the contract, Shearwater will carry out two 4D surveys over the Laggan, Tormore, and Edradour fields, with an option to ext
Houston-based Nauticus Robotics has secured an additional $2.7 million under its current contract with Leidos to advance the development of the Aquanaut-derived subsea platform. The subsea platform, an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), has advanced artificial intelligence and sensing capabilities a
Following the completion of four carbon storage acquisition jobs last year, Norwegian seismic company PGS has secured another seismic acquisition contract for carbon storage. PGS did not reveal many details about the contract but did state that it was signed with an “independent energy company” and
