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NKT Upgrades Its CLV for Better Offshore Installation Services

Jul 04, 2024

Danish subsea cable and services firm NKT has boosted the offshore installation capabilities of its cable laying vessel (CLV) NKT Victoria by conducting several technical upgrades.According to NKT, the vessel now features increased cable load capacity…

SLB OneSubsea Gets TotalEnergies’ Kaminho Deepwater Job Off Angola

Jul 04, 2024

SLB, through its OneSubsea joint venture, has secured a contract from TotalEnergies to provide subsea production system, including associated equipment and services, for the development of Kaminho project, offshore Angola.SLB OneSubsea, a joint venture between SLB…

DeepOcean to Wire RWE’s Nordseecluster A Offshore Wind Farm

Jul 03, 2024

Ocean services provider DeepOcean has been hired by RWE for trenching, transport and installation of all inter-array cables with adjacent services for the offshore wind turbines of Nordseecluster A project, being built in Germany.In August 2023…

Oceaneering Lines Up Vessel Services Work in the Gulf of Mexico

Jul 02, 2024

Oceaneering International announced its Offshore Projects Group (OPG) segment has been awarded multiple contractual agreements for vessel services with global energy companies, covering operations in the Gulf of Mexico.The scope of work under…

Global Maritime Tapped to Support Floating Wind Project

Jul 02, 2024

Marine and engineering consultancy Global Maritime said it has been awarded a contract by the Salamander Offshore Wind Farm, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7, to provide engineering services for the PREDICT 2.0 project…

OPT and Unique Group Team Up for USV Services in Middle East

Jul 02, 2024

U.S.-based marine power, data, and services company Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) and UAE’s subsea technology and engineering services firm Unique Group have partnered up to offer unmanned surface vehicle (USV) services in the Middle East.Unique…

Prysmian Buys US Wire and Cable Manufacturer

Jul 02, 2024

Italian cable maker Prysmian has completed the acquisition of Encore Wire, strengthening its position in the growing North American market.Prysmian acquired all of the outstanding shares of Encore Wire’s common stock for $290.00 per share, in cash…

CorPower Ocean Puts Finishing Touches to C4 Wave Energy Device Upgrades

Jul 02, 2024

Swedish wave energy company CorPower Ocean is nearing completion of planned on-land inspection and upgrades of its first commercial-scale wave energy device, C4, following its first deployment offshore Portugal. The upgrades being implemented…

Norway’s Seismic Firms TGS and PGS Complete Merger

Jul 02, 2024

Norway-based seismic firms TGS and PGS have officially completed their merger, creating a ‘premier’ energy data company.After clearing all regulatory hurdles for the merger, the most recent of which was the approval from the UK Competition and Markets Authority…

Preparing for Floating Wind – Leveraging the Oil & Gas Supply Chain

Jun 28, 2024

Examining similarities and differences between the deepwater oil & gas and the emerging floating wind segment.There has been much excitement around the potential for the offshore wind industry to access deeper water sites through the deployment of floating wind technology…

ABS and FibreMax Team Up for Floating Wind Mooring Tech

Jun 28, 2024

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Dutch company FibreMax have signed an agreement to collaborate on stiffness-driven mooring tendons for the floating offshore wind market.The collaboration, which is principally focused on floating offshore wind assets…

SLB OneSubsea to Design All-Electric Subsea System for Equinor’s Fram Sør Field

Jun 27, 2024

Oilfield services company SLB has, through its joint venture OneSubsea, secured a contract from Equinor for the front-end engineering design (FEED) of a 12-well, all-electric subsea production systems project in the Fram Sør field, offshore Norway…

Fugro Gets Offshore Wind Survey Job in Japan

Jun 27, 2024

Fugro has been awarded a site characterization contract for a 684 MW offshore wind farm development off the coast of the Japanese cities of Murakami and Tainai, Niigate Prefecture, Japan.The offshore wind farm off the country’s west coast will be developed and realized by a consortium of RWE…

Does an OSV Newbuild Boom Loom?

Jun 26, 2024

The market for offshore support vessels has experienced tremendous development in the last couple of years. And while we expect the market to continue its positive journey, we would argue that, at least on an overall basis, the market has already recovered to healthy levels at the time of writing…

TGS Set for Offshore Wind Measurement Campaign in Morro Bay Off California

Jun 26, 2024

Norwegian seismic firm TGS has announced a new campaign for offshore wind and metocean measurement located in Morro Bay, off the U.S. West Coast.This initiative further expands the company's pioneering multi-client wind and metocean measurement initiatives in key global offshore wind regions…

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