Taiwan: Ørsted Backs Construction of Woen-Jinn’s New Cable Layer
Ørsted has signed a construction contract with Taiwanese supplier partner Woen-Jinn for Greater Changhua projects’ array cable installation. The contract includes the provision to allow Woen-Jinn (WJ) to invest in a newbuild cable-laying vessel, which should enable them to become a competitive offshore wind cable installation supplier throughout Asia in the future. The contract with […]
Edda Mistral Arrives at Grimsby Prior to Hornsea Project One Deployment
Edda Mistral Service Operations Vessel (SOV) has arrived at the Royal Dock in Grimsby, six months after its sister vessel, Edda Passat, prior to its deployment on the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm located 120km off the Yorkshire Coast, UK. Although primarily intended for use during the operations phase of Hornsea Project One, the project team […]
CGG Moves to Delist from NYSE
Seismic player CGG has decided to delist its American Depositary Shares from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and deregister with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). CGG said it believes that the costs associated with continuing the listing and registration of its ADSs exceed the benefits received by CGG, […]
Briggs Marine Acquires Three Canadian Marine Companies
The Briggs Group has acquired a consortia of three marine companies in Canada. The companies namely Foreshore Technologies, Balanced Environmental and Ocean Tech are based in North Vancouver, British Columbia and have been trading for 25 years. Foreshore Technologies specializes in diving, environmental survey, structural survey and marine operations. Balanced Environmental Services are experts in […]
Flexential Boosts Its Portland Data Center
Flexential, provider of hybrid IT data center solutions, has completed the $32-million expansion of its data center outside Portland, Oregon. The 115,000-square foot expansion brings the data center to 240,000 square feet and boasts international connectivity. The Portland data center houses the U.S. cable landing station for the Hawaiki submarine cable, which delivers the first […]
AgileTek Sees Rise in Contract Awards
Subsea engineering analysis consultancy AgileTek said it has secured global contracts to the value of £0.7 million so far this year. The 40 projects, which includes work on North Sea umbilical projects and European and Asian offshore wind farms, involves work delivered from AgileTek’s base in London for clients in the UK, Germany, Belgium, Greece […]
Teledyne Gavia Introduces ASW Training Target Module
Autonomous underwater vehicles provider Teledyne Gavia has recently delivered a Sonar Transponder Module (STM) for ASW training to an undisclosed military customer. The STM module made by Scanmatic of Norway and integrated into a Gavia payload module is capable of receiving and re-transmitting sonar signals for training sonar operators. The STM consists […]
SeaRobotics AUV for USACE Post-Hurricane Survey Ops
SeaRobotics has recently delivered an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) for rapid post-hurricane hydrographic survey in the Caribbean. SeaRobotics’ 3.6 meter, collapsible ASV should allow rapid deployment and completion of the hydrographic surveys necessary to re-open infrastructure enabling delivery of life saving goods and services, after […]
ACES Muscat Starts Sohar Port Site Investigation
ACES Muscat has started the geotechnical investigation for the Sohar Port – Southern Development Package1 in Oman. The package comprises of soil improvement at the top surface of the reclamation area, installation of revetment along the reclamation area and installation of scour protection along the outfall. ACES Muscat scope of work in […]