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Nauticus Robotics has initiated operations in Norway and the United Kingdom, marking the start of its international expansion strategy for 2023 and beyond with the initiation of its operations. The U.S. company said that the operating bases are strategically located in Stavanger, Norway, and Aberdeen, Scotland to service the North Sea offshore market. According to Nauticus... Continue Reading →
(OE) Offshore construction company Havfram Subsea said Thursday it was taking back its Ocean Installer name. The company's subsea business was known as Ocean Installer from the company's inception in 2011, with the 2020 name change reflecting its diversification into the offshore wind industry. The relaunch follows last year's announcement of the sale of Havfram's wind business lines. ... Continue Reading →
(epbr) Perenco announced this Wednesday the departure of the FSO Pargo platform from a shipyard in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, heading to the Pargo field, in shallow waters in the Campos Basin. The unit is part of the concession's production recovery project, which foresees investments of US$ 400 million and promises to increase... Continue Reading →
Oil and gas company Ocyan announces the arrival in Brazil of the Solstad vessel, the "Normand Cutter", which under its management will carry out the decommissioning activities of Petrobras' underwater structures in the Campos Basin (Rio de Janeiro) and Sergipe- Alagoas, in a contract won last year. “This is the first decommissioning contract for offshore... Continue Reading →
Maritime Developments (MDL) has delivered a bespoke aft recovery system for multiple Subsea 7 vessels operating in deep water. The assembly consists of a chute, a removal device for buoyancy, and a horizontal hang-off system. According to MDL, the complete system will be mountable in different locations on the stern of the vessels, to facilitate... Continue Reading →
Australian operator Karoon Energy has advanced in preparations for the start of production in the Patola field, in the Santos Basin. The company expects to start production in the area at the end of the first quarter of this year. The drilling rig Noble Developer completed drilling and completion activities in the field. Installation of... Continue Reading →
Aker Solutions has secured a contract with French energy giant TotalEnergies for the delivery of the subsea production system, tools and related EPCI interfaces for the Lapa South West field construction offshore Brazil. The development concept located in the pre-salt Santos Basin is a subsea tie-back to the Cidade de Caraguatatuba FPSO, using existing facilities... Continue Reading →
(OE) The Norwegian energy firm Equinor has awarded Siem Offshore a seven-month contract extension for the offshore subsea construction vessel Siem Barracuda. The extension will keep the 120.8m vessel working on Equinor's Hywind Tampen project offshore Norway, where Equinor is building a floating wind farm to power its oil and gas platforms. "The vessel has... Continue Reading →
(OET) Hellenic Cables has signed a contract with Asso.subsea for the transportation, installation, and protection of the 220 kV submarine export cable that will connect 50Hertz’s own transformer platform at the Windanker wind farm in the Baltic Sea to the national grid as part of the Ostwind 3 grid connection system. The overall system will... Continue Reading →
(OET) The partners in the innovative industry-led project that aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of renewable energy for powering subsea production systems and vehicles are getting ready to demonstrate the integrated system offshore Orkney in Scotland. The project, dubbed ‘Renewables for Subsea Power’, is being developed by Verlume, Baker Hughes, Mocean Energy, and Transmark Subsea. It will combine Verlume’s Halo seabed... Continue Reading →
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