Fara Holdco Boosts Executive Team
Fara Holdco, owners of Bibby Offshore, CECON Contracting and Rever Offshore, has appointed Mark Bessell as chief executive. Bessell joins the executive team at Fara Holdco following four years as COO with Songa Offshore in Norway. Previously, Mark held positions with Ocean Rig as senior vice president, and as managing director of […]
FairfieldNodal Becomes Fairfield Geo | Subsea World News
FairfieldNodal has changed its name to Fairfield Geotechnologies (Fairfield Geo) to reflect the company’s strategy and evolution as a provider of life-of-field technology, data and solutions. FairfieldNodal is a provider of ocean bottom nodal (OBN) technology and related services and data to oil companies and independent operators. Fairfield Geotechnologies has embarked on […]
Jan de Nul Connects Two Wind Farms to German Transmission Grid
Jan De Nul Group has completed the export cable installation works in the German North Sea in order to connect the offshore wind farms Trianel Windpark Borkum II, developed by Trianel, and Borkum Riffgrund II, developed by Ørsted, to Tennet’s German transmission grid. For both cable installation projects, Jan De Nul mobilized […]
Polarcus in Capreolus Sale | Subsea World News
Polarcus’ subsidiary has signed an agreement for the sale of its 22,130 square kilometers Capreolus 3D survey offshore Australia. The deal with an undisclosed party will be in return for a cash consideration of USD 6.5 million. According to Polarcus, the transaction will result in a non-cash gain of approximately USD 4.9 […]
Maersk Drilling-Maersk Supply Service JV Gets Its Name
Maersk Drilling and Maersk Supply Service have launched the new name of its 50:50 decommissioning joint venture, Maersk Decom. “Maersk Decom may be a new company, but it is built on the track record that both parent companies, Maersk Drilling and Maersk Supply Service, have already established within the field of decommissioning. The name carries […]
Kreuz Subsea Gets Director of Diving and ROV Ops
Kreuz Subsea, has appointed Jerry Starling as director of diving and ROV operations. Starling, who will be based at the company’s Singapore headquarters, recently held senior diving roles at DOF Subsea and DeepOcean. Prior to this, Starling was group diving operations manager for Harkand where he worked with Kreuz Subsea chief executive […]
Optime Subsea Supports AKOFS in Equinor LWI Contract
AKOFS Offshore (AKOFS), a company owned by Akastor, has selected Optime Subsea to support the company in delivery of recently secured contract with Equinor. Optime will support AKOFS in recently received five year light well intervention (LWI) services contract with Equinor on the Norwegian continental shelf. “We are pleased to award this […]
DNV GL’s Noble Denton Gets New Management
DNV GL has appointed Neil Jamieson Fraser as its new head of Noble Denton marine services in the UK and West Africa. The role will focus on marine warranty, marine advisory/assurance, technical assurance, and advanced engineering services, DNV GL said. Neil has worked with DNV GL for more than 25 years and has […]
Balltec Connectors Deliver Malikai Job
Balltec has recently completed the disconnection of its MoorLOK subsea mooring connectors on behalf of EMAS Offshore on the Shell Malikai oil field off Sabah, Malaysia. The connectors, rated to 615 mT MBL, were originally supplied in 2015 to Technip MMHE Joint Venture and used for temporary mooring of the Tender Assisted […]
Seatec Rolls Out New Winch
Seatec said it has launched a new compact and low-cost CTD winch unit. The unit is based on previously designed and delivered CTD winch systems. According to Seatec, this unit (LIER-077) has a drum capacity of only 250mtr and runs upto 120mtr/min with 50kg SWL. It can operate at 230Vac or 440Vac. […]