Van Oord to Demo New Suction Bucket Solution on Deutsche Bucht OWF

Financial close has been reached for two pilot wind turbines at the Deutsche Bucht Offshore Wind Farm. The project will test Mono Buckets, a new type of foundation structure, equipped with a 8.4 MW turbine. In addition to its Balance of Plant contract for the wind farm, Van Oord will also be […]

Providence Welcomes Results of Dunquin South Seismic

Providence Resources has welcomed the results of the seismic survey over the Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 3/04 located in the southern Porcupine Basin.   FEL 3/04 is operated by Eni on behalf of its partners, Repsol Exploracion Irlanda (33.557%), Providence Resources (26.846%) and Sosina Exploration (2.684%). The Dunquin initial interpretation of the 3D seismic […]

Hawaiki Submarine Cable Goes Online | Subsea World News

Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP has started commercial operations for its 15,000 km fibre optic deep-sea cable linking Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and the United States. The USD 300 million Hawaiki submarine cable system will deliver 43 terabits of additional capacity – several times the current levels of Australia and New Zealand combined – on a fully diverse […]

PSA Nods Equinor’s Use of Visund Subsea Production Facility

Equinor has obtained a consent from Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway for the use of a new subsea production facility and wells on the Visund field. The Visund field, located in the northern North Sea, has been developed by means of a semi-submersible integrated quarters, drilling and processing facility (Visund A) and […]

Scotland Injects £1.4M in Wave Energy Projects

Wave Energy Scotland (WES) is awarding contracts with a total value of £1.4 million to three innovation projects designed to support further investigation of promising structural materials and manufacturing concepts to be used in the construction of wave energy devices. ARUP will evaluate new ways of using concrete, CorPower Ocean will lead […]

Xodus Adds New Advanced Engineering Lead

Xodus Group has appointed Dr Tao Zhao as its new advanced engineering lead. With over 15 years’ experience in subsea pipeline and riser design and analysis, Dr Zhao joins Xodus from Heerema Marine Contractors. Throughout his career, he has provided a range of analysis for offshore contractor and engineering consultants in both […]

Seatronics Adds New Teledyne Pipe Tracking System

Seatronics, an Acteon company, has increased its investment in Teledyne Marine pipe tracking technology with the purchase of a HydroPACT 660 system to add to Seatronics’ extensive global rental fleet. The HydroPACT 660 smaller and lighter coil array has been designed to help reduce the operating cost of subsea pipe surveys by […]