ROVworld Subsea Information

MMT has entered into a contract with Medgaz in Spain for inspection of the offshore pipeline between Algerie and Spain.

The newly merged Aberdeenshire-based Underwater Engineering Services (UES) and Houston headquartered Seanic Oceans Systems has secured its first contract in Tunisia, a region which neither firm had previously operated in.

Statoil has awarded a subsidiary of Oceaneering International a technology development contract to provide the development, manufacturing, testing, and mobilization of a self-contained, battery-powered work class remotely operated vehicle (E-ROV) system deployed on the seabed of the North Sea.

HOUSTON – GulfMark Offshore has won two new long-term vessel contracts.

One, running for two years plus options, involves a charter of the platform supply vessel M/V Highland Prince, built in 2010, to ASCO Marine for use in the UK sector.

Mobile & Marine Robotics Research Centre (MMRRC), operating at the University of Limerick (UL), has purchased a new Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV), and associated launch and recovery systems, under a MaREI Science Foundation Ireland infrastructure grant (15/RI/3232). 

Ocean Installer has been awarded a turnkey project for procurement and installation of a spread mooring chain system for a floating storage unit (FSU) in Malta.

The mooring installation and hook-up takes place in Marsaxlokk Bay, where the FSU will be providing re-gasified LNG for the fueling of electricity generators onshore at Delimara power station.

As the company informed, the client is ElectroGas Malta.

Fugro has been awarded a supply arrangement by the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) to provide vessel based hydrographic survey services. Under the contract CHS will procure hydrographic surveys as needed, anywhere in Canada.

SubCImaging writes:  

As part of the National Science Foundation Ocean Observing Initiative (NSF-OOI) Cabled Array project SubC Imaging was selected as the vendor for providing underwater High Definition Video Cameras (1Cam) and Lights (Aquarea LED) to the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington for the CAM HD instrument

Statoil has awarded Oceaneering International Inc. an eight-year contract to provide two work-class electric ROVs for its Cat-J jackup drilling rigs in the North Sea. Statoil’s Cat- J rig is a fit-for-purpose harsh environment jackup for operations in both surface and subsea wells in the shallow-water segments on the Norwegian continental shelf.

 Bibby Offshore has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by BP to replace subsea infrastructure in the Central North Sea.