ROV solutions, tooling and products specialist Aleron has promoted Gary McConnell to its new managing director. Formerly commercial manager, McConnell steered the business through a challenging year and will continue to lead Aleron through a period of growth, implementing new internationalisation st
Norwegian energy services player Aker Solutions has seen its loss widened in the fourth quarter 2020 on impairments and lower activity, which led to some 30 per cent revenue drop. The Oslo-listed company recognised quarterly net loss of NOK 844 million, versus net loss of NOK 129 million in Q4 2019.
The AR500 tidal energy generation system, designed and built by Simec Atlantis Energy, has started generating clean electricity in Japan following its installation off Goto Island chain late in January.
Subsea boosting could make an immediate increase in production profitably on more than 200 oil projects globally, according to Rystad Energy’s newly launched Subsea Processing Screening Tool. The increase in recoverable reserves for the top 100 projects, out of more than 200 projects identified wher
SeaTwirl has been granted a patent for its divisible offshore wind turbine by the Japanese Patent Office. “Japan has great water depths and large cities along the coasts, which is an interesting market for our floating wind turbine, especially when Japan has set a goal of becoming CO2 neutral by 205
Norway-based designer and shipbuilder Vard is helping the French cabling firm Orange Marine expand its fleet of cable ships. This is the second time Orange Marine has opted for Vard, following the cable laying and repair vessel Pierre de Fermat of VARD 9 01 design. The new vessel, announced in Decem
C-Power has announced the addition of a Saab double-hull Sabertooth hybrid autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to the six-month sea trial of the SeaRAY autonomous offshore power system (AOPS).
Seabed seismic player Magseis Fairfield has secured a new deep-water 4D OBN monitor survey in the US Gulf of Mexico for a repeat customer. The company plans to carry out the survey with its ZXPLR technology, currently in use for ongoing projects in the same geographical area. Mid-December last year,
Aberdeen-based 3D technology specialist Eserv is investing a six-figure sum into the research and development of new capabilities to allow them to expand into the subsea sector. Eserv’s decision to drive the business into new sectors comes on the heels of a successful 2020 which saw their AS-TEG sol
AW-Energy has announced its entry into the commercial hydrogen market by introducing a combined WaveRoller wave energy device and HydrogenHub process for the production of green hydrogen.
Powering ships with hydrogen that can be refueled at offshore floating solar islands sounds like a perfect sustainable shipping alternative. Now, the idea is coming closer to reality in the Netherlands with a prototype of such solar island set for testing on the Waal near IJzendoorn through a joint
Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group and Sea Machines Robotics, the USA-based startup developing autonomous ship solutions, have signed an alliance agreement to further investigate the adoption of collision avoidance functionality onboard Damen-built ships.
Transocean has deployed the HaloGuard technology on a drillship working in the Gulf of Mexico with plans to deploy it on 6 more rigs by the end of the year.
Kongsberg Maritime has signed a letter of intent to deliver a large technology package for Triumph Subsea Services’ next generation field development vessel (FDV). The deal, signed with Brodosplit Shipyard and DIV Group in Croatia, covers an ST-269 unit, with an option for three more vessels of iden
