Simmons Edeco in North Sea Win
Oilfield service company Simmons Edeco has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by an undisclosed North Sea oil and gas operator. As a result of this two-year contract, Simmons Edeco will provide wellhead and valve maintenance services for all North Sea assets owned by this operator. In addition, the company will continue […]
DeepOcean Wins Equinor Subsea Work
DeepOcean has been awarded a long-term contract involving subsea life of field services on Equinor operated fields. The award covers onshore project management, engineering and offshore operations utilising a variety of vessels within the DeepOcean fleet. Offshore operations may include life of field services such as standard inspectionand survey work involving use […]
Rosenberg WorleyParsons Bags Neptune Energy’s Nova Deal
Neptune Energy has awarded a contract to Rosenberg WorleyParsons for the construction and installation of a Nova topside module on the Gjøa platform in the North Sea. The Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation & Commissioning (EPCIC) contract is for the topside section of the Nova development. Wintershall as the operator of Nova has decided […]
Xodus Reports £5 Mln in Contracts
Energy consultancy Xodus Group has revealed it has won £5 million worth of field development work over the past twelve months. The company has recently been awarded two projects by Apache for its Storr and Seagull developments. For Storr, Xodus will initially complete a conceptual assessment to streamline the options under consideration before embarking on […]
Pioneering Spirit Arrives in Rotterdam
Allseas’ pipelaying vessel Pioneering Spirit, the biggest vessel in the world, has arrived in Rotterdam on Thursday. According to Allseas, the vessel arrived at the Maasmond around midnight, from where it took it about five hours to reach the final location in the Alexiahaven. The vessel recently completed the deep-water pipelay for Line […]
Fugro Appoints New Chair in Geotechnics at UWA
Geotechnical engineer, Dr Fraser Bransby, has been appointed Fugro Chair in Geotechnics at The University of Western Australia’s Oceans Graduate School (OGS) within the Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Dr Bransby has worked across academia and industry, most recently at Fugro AG Pty Ltd, applying his geotechnical expertise to meet the scientific and engineering […]
NKT Victoria One Year in Operation
NKT has marked the one-year anniversary of its cable-laying vessel NKT Victoria after a busy first year at sea. The 140-meter vessel, with cable capacity of 9,000 tonnes on two turntables, has installed 335 kilometers of cables for offshore wind and interconnector projects in countries such as Denmark, Belgium and the UK. […]
MacArtney Provides Winches for Textron USVs
MacArtney has supplied autonomously operating winches to US-based Textron Systems, for naval application on USVs. The Common Unmanned Surface Vehicles (CUSVTM) will be provided with purpose-built winches designed and tested according to the MIL standards. The scope of work comprises design, manufacture, assembly, testing and delivery of autonomous launch and recovery systems custom-engineered to […]
ION to Launch New 2D Multi-Client Program Off Canada
ION Geophysical has announced a new 2D multi-client program offshore Grand Banks in Newfoundland, Canada. In the first phase of GrandSPAN, ION will acquire approximately 10,000 kilometers of data with an expectation to sanction a second phase of approximately 5,000 kilometers of data further south in 2019. The industry-supported program is designed […]
Crown Estate Scotland Extends Nova’s Shetland Tidal Array Seabed Lease
Nova Innovation has secured an extension of its seabed lease at the Shetland Tidal Array. Crown Estate Scotland has granted an extension to Nova’s existing seabed lease at Bluemull Sound in Shetland, increasing the capacity of the site lease from 0.5MW to 2MW. The extension will also see the current lease period […]