Norwegian marine survey contractor Argeo has secured a loan of NOK 20 million (approximately €1.9 million) from Innovation Norway. According to Argeo, the yield is 6,2 per cent, the duration is six years and the loan is on certain conditions. The company has not disclosed any other details. “We are
A new monitoring technology that is said to ensure more frequent checks of the future CO2 storage and results in less impact on the environment is currently being tested for Project Greensand in the North Sea. Magseis Fairfield reported last week that it had mobilized its MASS III nodes and modular
Swedish energy company Vattenfall conducted large-scale seabed surveys with uncrewed surface vessels at several of its offshore wind farms in Denmark, Sweden, and the UK earlier this year. In the late summer and early autumn of 2022, uncrewed vessels were used for seabed surveys across Horns Rev 1,
UK-headquartered provider of marine engineering services James Fisher and Sons is selling the Subtech Swordfish dive support vessel (DSV) for a cash consideration of $24 million. The company has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MoU) for the sale of the 2007-built vessel to Seamec Limited, a c
Fugro Netherlands Marine has won a contract to carry out an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey and identification campaign at the 900 MW EnBW he Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The He Dreiht offshore wind farm will be built some 90 kilometres northwest of the island of Borkum and ab
Namibia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has granted a second one-year extension for the Petroleum Exploration License 87 (PEL 87) located in the Orange Basin. Canada-based Sintana Energy reported on 21 December that Namibia’s Minister of Mines and Energy had granted a second one-year extension to the
EGS has completed an offshore geophysical and hydrographic survey for Ørsted’s Skipjack Wind offshore wind project off the coast of Maryland’s Delmarva Peninsula, USA. EGS was contracted by Ørsted to conduct, process, and interpret high-resolution geophysical and hydrographic survey data of the near
Solstad Offshore has received Letters of Award from subsea contractors for the construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Maximus that combined have a duration of minimum 200 days. The Norwegian company reported on 23 December that Normand Maximus had received Letters of Award from various undisclose
TGS and CGG have secured a contract to carry out the acquisition and imaging of a dense ocean bottom node (OBN) multi-client seismic survey in the Sleipner area of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras has awarded Norwegian seismic company PGS with a 4D production contract over the Barracuda-Caratinga field in the Campos basin offshore Brazil. The Ramform Victory will most likely be rigged to acquire the Barracuda-Caratinga 4D survey, supported by PGS Apollo a
DOF Subsea Asia Pacific has secured a contract to provide construction support for riser and spool installation including air and saturation diving for a brownfield expansion project in Malaysia. The award includes project management, engineering, procurement, transportation and installation servic
Surveys of the area that the Lithuanian Government selected for the country’s first offshore wind farm have shown that the seabed in the Baltic Sea is suitable for the development of this type of project. The Lithuanian Energy Agency selected Geobaltic and Garant Diving to carry out the geophysical
The Crown Estate has announced the awarding of the first contracts for its first major investment in surveys to help with the construction of floating offshore wind farms in the Celtic Sea. The awarding of the first contracts marks an important step in what is anticipated to be a multi-million pound
CGG has made an agreement with Carbon Transition’s subsidiary Axxis Multi Client to reprocess the Utsira ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey in the Norwegian North Sea.
