(OE) Dutch company Huisman has secured a contract from Subsea 7 for the delivery of its 500MT offshore mast crane for one of pipelay vessels for deep water installations. The 500mt Offshore Mast Crane will be equipped with a passive and active heave compensation system on the main hoist to counter-act the vessel’s heave motion... Continue Reading →
Italian TSO puts submarine drone for seabed surveys to test
(OET) Italian transmission system operator (TSO) Terna has launched a project in cooperation with U.S. startup Terradepth focused on testing innovative approaches to surveying the seabed for planning environmentally friendly submarine electrical connections. As part of Project Odisseo, the first test was conducted off the coast near the port of Casamicciola Terme, on the island... Continue Reading →
DeepOcean Bolsters Digital Subsea Offer with Btwn Acquisition
(OE) Norwegian ocean services provider DeepOcean has acquired digital transformation company Btwn, growing its offering within digitalization and automation of subsea operations. DeepOcean has acquired 100% of the shares in Btwn – pronounced ‘between’ - from the company’s employees for an undisclosed amount. In addition to becoming an integrated part of DeepOcean’s digital innovation team,... Continue Reading →
Third Enauta well comes back on stream
(OET) Brazilian oil and gas player Enauta has restarted production from another well at a field offshore Brazil. Following issues in the subsea pumping electrical system adopted for the FPSO Petrojarl I, Enauta temporarily halted the Atlanta field’s production in July 2023. After the reinstallation of the subsea pumping equipment at one of the wells, production resumed on November 5, with well #5... Continue Reading →
Investing in Subsea Decommissioning Pays Off, Decom Engineering Finds
(OE) Decom Engineering has completed the first deployment of its largest subsea Chopsaw to date, achieving substantial time savings of almost 300% on a decommissioning job in the North Sea. Following the $1.2 million (£1 million) investment to develop its largest subsea Chopsaw yet - the C1-46 - the Northern Ireland-based offshore decommissioning technology firm... Continue Reading →
Nauticus Robotics Streamlines Business Ops
(OE) Nauticus Robotics, a U.S. developer of autonomous vehicles and robots for data collection and intervention services for offshore industries, has secured fresh funding for its operations and appointed new executive management team. The new investment was secured before the close of 2023 and eliminated many of the dilutive warrants and ratchet provisions of the... Continue Reading →
CRP Subsea Put to Work at Brazilian Oil Field
(OE) CRP Subsea, an AIS company, has secured a ‘substantial contract’ for the supply of distributed buoyancy modules (DBMs) to a deepwater oil field project in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. CRP Subsea secured was hired by a leading energy technology company, whose name was not disclosed. The company DBMs will be utilised on a... Continue Reading →
Verlume Granted Fit4Offshore Renewables Status
(OE) Scottish energy management and storage technologies specialist Verlume has achieved the ‘Granted' status from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Fit For Offshore Renewables (F4OR) program. Designed as a business improvement programme and to build energy sector specific capability, F4OR has been developed with input from the offshore renewable energy industry and is managed... Continue Reading →
Petrobras signs contract for the development and implementation of the innovative HISEP® project in the Mero field
Petrobras signed, this Tuesday (02/1), a contract with the company FMC Technologies do Brasil, a subsidiary of TechnipFMC, which won the bid for the integrated Engineering, Acquisition, Construction and Installation (iEPCI™) contract, as well as the carrying out tests to develop the HISEP® technology, patented by Petrobras for the separation of oil and gas at... Continue Reading →
Aker Solutions to Pilot Subsea Power Distribution System for Floating Wind
Aker Solutions has signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) in Norway to pilot new subsea power system technology which has the potential to reduce costs and complexity of offshore wind farms. The project will see Aker Solutions provide new power transmission technology, Subsea Collector, for the... Continue Reading →