Norway’s Reach Subsea has secured a contract with an undisclosed company for inspection, maintenance, repair (IMR) and light construction services in the Black Sea. The two-year contract has been signed with a charterer that is providing remotely operated vehicle (ROV)-based subsea operations, const
The fourth liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) carrier destined for the Northern Lights CO2 project in Norway has been christened in China. Northern Purpose has been custom-designed to transport liquefied CO2 as part of the world’s first cross-border CO2 transport and storage infrastructure. It was buil
Adura Operations, an incorporated joint venture (IJV) between the UK’s Shell and Norway’s Equinor, has selected Norwegian Shearwater GeoServices to perform ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic acquisition at its field in the UK North Sea. Shearwater’s scope covers approximately 220 km2 of seismic acquisi
TDI-Brooks’ 2003-built multi-use oceanographic research vessel Miss Emma McCall is on its way to Honduras to complete its reflagging exercise, before being deployed for a geotechnical project in this country. The 153-meter-long vessel completed its full term ABS shipyard period and is currently en r
Boskalis will invest in a new high-capacity cable-laying vessel (CLV) targeting the offshore wind and interconnector markets, the company said on May 18. According to the company, the vessel is designed to support growing demand for long-distance cable installation, particularly for high-voltage dir
Norway’s Ulstein Verft has delivered the cable-laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Electra to French cable systems designer and manufacturer Nexans, purpose‑built for the transport, laying, protection, repair and jointing of subsea power cables. Nexans Electra was ordered as the second vessel by Nexans at No
Belgium-headquartered GeoXYZ has been appointed to carry out unexploded ordnance (UXO) investigation and geotechnical surveys for a proposed HVDC subsea electricity interconnector that will link Northern Ireland and Scotland, with the work set to begin this month. The LirIC interconnector project wi
An arbitration regarding a disputed 2024 charter hire related to the largest vessel in Solstad Offshore’s fleet has been resolved in the favor of the Norwegian offshore vessel owner, the company reported. Solstad reported yesterday, May 14, that arbitration proceedings related to a disputed charter
Fugro is set to deploy its geophysical vessel in a couple of days to carry out a maintenance survey of an interconnector between France and the UK that has been operating since 1986. The 2 GW IFA 2000 high voltage direct current (HVDC) electrical interconnector is approximately 70 kilometers long, w
South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution has acquired a 2016-built cable laying vessel (CLV) from Norwegian DOF Group, representing the second offshore wind-dedicated CLV introduced in Korea. The 10,000-ton class Skandi Connector was designed by Dutch shipbuilder Damen and has to date been deployed on
Danish energy company Ørsted has issued a tender looking to award a six-year frame agreement for pipeline inspection services to be performed in the Danish part of the North Sea. Ørsted is planning for a new frame agreement with bi-annual remotely operated vehicle (ROV) inspection with planned call-
Norway-headquartered Red Rock has completed the commissioning and harbour acceptance testing (HAT) for the crane systems onboard Nexans’ new cable-laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Electra. Besides the crane delivery, Red Rock also supplied two work baskets with a common HPU solution for the vessel. Nexans
UK designer and manufacturer of uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) ZeroUSV has made a strategic investment in the Manor Marine shipyard, which in the last 12 months constructed and outfitted all four Oceanus12 vessels currently in operation. By becoming a shareholder in Manor Marine, ZeroUSV says it se
The CMHI shipyard in Shenzhen, China, has begun the construction of two methanol-ready dual-fuel multipurpose subsea vessels for Norway’s Olympic Subsea. Olympic Subsea reported that earlier in April the keel laying for the first vessel and the first steel cutting for the second vessel took place at
