Partrac has been awarded the metocean support services contract for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm, UK. Partrac will manage the supply, deployment, maintenance and delivery of meto...

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis, the Netherlands) has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to acquire offshore activities from VolkerWessels. Under the intended transaction, B...

Fugro will utilise its exhibition stand at Oceanology International 2016 (from 15-17 March, London, UK) to shine a spotlight on new technological developments that support the offs...

AXYS Technologies (Canada) has recently completed another two successful validation campaigns for its FLiDAR 6M wind assessment platform. This latest achievement marks the 9th and...

Fugro is to provide offshore survey and positioning services at the Kaombo oil development offshore Angola. Under a contract awarded by Technip, Fugro will provide offshore deepwat...

Cost reduction is the constant aim of the marine renewable energy industry, and this year’s ‘Marine Renewables’ conference session on Tuesday 15 March, the openin...

Zupt has welcomed Simonette Lentze-Muller as their VP of Offshore Operations. Within this role Simonette will be responsible for the oversight of all of Zupt’s offshore opera...

Stema Systems and ECE Offshore sealed their corporation in November 2015, formaliing their collaboration in the shape of a strategic corporation agreement. Reinier Nagtegaal of ECE...

In December 2015, EIVA added OceanCosmos Nigeria Limited as the first EIVA representative in Nigeria. OceanCosmos Nigeria Limited will offer its customers both EIVA hardware and so...

CGG GeoConsulting has acquired GLOGOS, the Global Onshore Gas-Oil Seeps dataset, from Gas Consult. GLOGOS will be incorporated into the new Seep Explorer, creating an onshore and o...

James Fisher (UK) has successfully deployed subsea export cables as part of the initial construction phase (Phase 1A), in support of MeyGen Limited’s (MeyGen) 398MW tidal arr...

This week saw the signing of a representative agreement under which Italian Marine ONE will include EIVA hardware and software solutions for offshore construction an...

 Two recent events have highlighted how the International Marine Contractors Association and the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES) are working closel...

In light of current market conditions and low industry interest, the U.S. Department of the Interior will cancel the two potential Arctic offshore lease sales scheduled under the c...

The Brazilian company MACSEA is now part of EIVA’s international representative network of offshore specialists. The underwater technology expert MACSEA has signed a contract...

DeepOcean has been awarded a contract by DONG Energy for the provision of installation and trenching works for the Walney Extension offshore wind project in The Irish Sea. Offshore...

Ola Oskarsson, founder and CTO of MMT, will give a presentation on 3D visualisation of subsea structures at Offshore Energy 2015 on 14 October 2015 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. O...

The ‘IMCA Renewables Contracting Principles’ can now be downloaded from the Safety and Legislation section of the The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA, UK) websit...

Spectrum, Norway, entered into a multi-client master co-operation agreement with the federal government of Somalia during a signing ceremony on 5 September 2015 at the SYL Hotel, M...

Fugro, The Netherlands, has secured a contract for the installation and burial of array cables at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm being built in the English Channel, 13 kilometres o...

‘Effective competence solutions’ is the theme of an International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA, UK) Competence and Training Seminar to be held in Aberdeen on Wednesday 2 Se...

Planning approval for offshore wind energy has been issued at Dogger Bank, taking the total of consented projects in the North Sea zone to 4.8 gigawatts (GW), almost equal to all t...

UTEC Survey, USA, is strengthening its leadership team with two key promotions. In Houston, Cory Goodyear (top image) will become general manager after eight years with the company...

MMT, Sweden, has been granted a contract from DONG Energy Wind Power for UXO inspections and excavations of various contacts with option on disposal and removal at Race Bank Offsho...

In recent months, USA-based LinkQuest has shipped close to 100 underwater acoustic modems for worldwide offshore oilfield deployments. LinkQuest's underwater acoustic modems are ba...

DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd., UK, has been awarded the inter array cable installation contract for the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm offshore Belgium. DeepOcean’s scope under this...

The Atlas Competency scheme (ACS) is one of the channels of support for Atlas Professionals (UK). The need for personnel to demonstrate competence has now become a pre-requisite fo...

Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) in partnership with VolkerWessels (Volker Stevin International), The Netherlands, has been awarded a contract by Veja Mate Offshore Project fo...

AXYS Technologies Inc. (AXYS), Canada, has joined the Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) to further the shared goal of developing innovative and cost-efficient off...

RMS Submarine, UK, announce the appointment of Roland Coomber in the position of Technical Resourcing manager. The appointment of a Technical Resourcing manager expands RMS interna...