DOF Subsea Secures Work for Its Vessels in Asia Pacific

DOF Subsea has secured several contracts in the Asia Pacific region, securing utilization for vessels in the Subsea/IMR segment. The Skandi Hercules multi-purpose vessel has been awarded short-term contracts for survey and intervention services in Australian waters. In addition, the vessel will also provide geophysical and geotechnical surveys offshore northern Australia, the company […]

Boskalis Integrates Offshore Units Under Single Brand Name

Boskalis has presented its integrated service portfolio for the offshore energy market under one single brand name. As a result, Dockwise, Fairmount and VBMS, subsidiaries of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., will continue to offer their services under the brand name Boskalis. The Dutch marine services player said it aims to strengthen its positions […]

Well-Safe Introduces Five P&A Clubs

Well-Safe Solutions said it has now set up five different P&A clubs to reduce the cost of well plug and abandonment, following interest by operators in the North Sea. The P&A club concept, launched recently by the Aberdeen-based well abandonment specialist, introduces a new commercial model that tackles late-life activity. By becoming a member of […]

Wellbarrier in Holistic Well Integrity Deal with VNG Norge

Wellbarrier has secured an agreement with VNG Norge to create a holistic well integrity value chain solution to safeguard oil and gas wells worldwide. The joint project, Agreement for Joint Industry Research, Development and Demonstration Project (JIP), will apply a digital solution to enhance well integrity in the exploration and production (E&P) […]

Scotland Backs New Decommissioning Centre of Excellence

The Oil & Gas Technology Centre has been awarded grant funding of £1.9 million from the Scottish Government’s Decommissioning Challenge Fund to invest in the recently-announced National Decommissioning Centre of Excellence in partnership with the University of Aberdeen. Paul Wheelhouse MSP, Scottish Government Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy confirmed the award during a visit […]

Vard to Build Prysmian Cable Layer

Italian subsea cables specialist Prysmian has selected Vard, a Fincantieri shipbuilding company, for the design and construction of its new cable laying vessel. The contract value, including owner supplied special equipment, amounts to approximately € 170 million (approximately NOK 1.6 billion). The specialized vessel for advanced subsea operations, is intended to be the […]

PGS Loses ‘Polar Duchess’ Case Against GC Rieber

Bergen district court has again dismissed claims of €9 million from PGS UK (former Arrow Seismic) against GC Rieber Shipping’s subsidiary Armada Seismic Invest II in connection with the delivery of 3D seismic vessel Polar Duchess. To remind, in 2012 Arrow alleged that Armada had acted negligently when the company took delivery […]

Saipem Kicks Off Sverdrup Pipelaying Ops

Saipem’s vessel Castorone has started operations to install Norway’s largest pipeline to the Johan Sverdrup field. The 36-inch pipeline, which will extend more than 280 kilometers out to the Johan Sverdrup field once installed, is being pulled through a pre-drilled hole at the bottom of the Fensfjord into the Mongstad oil terminal. When the Johan […]

IODP Gears for Another Expedition

The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) has been scheduled to begin Expedition 376, “Brothers Arc Flux: Gateway to the subarc mantle: volatile flux, metal transport, and conditions for early life” aboard the JOIDES Resolution on May 5, 2018. This expedition will drill and log three sites: two caldera sites, one on the caldera rim and […]

Kraken Names Chief Scientist | Subsea World News

Kraken Robotics Systems has appointed Dr. Jeremy Dillon as the company’s chief scientist. As an original member of Kraken’s Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) team, Dillon developed the signal processing algorithms for the AquaPix SAS imaging and bathymetry software. He also invented Kraken’s AquaTrak Correlation Velocity Log, participated in numerous sea trials and […]