Subsea 7 S.A announces the award of a sizeable(1) contract by Nexen as part of the Buzzard Phase 2 Project, located approximately 55 kilometers off the north-east coast of Scotland.

Pete Jones has joined Neptune Energy Group Holdings Limited as UK Managing Director and will be based in Aberdeen. Most recently Mr. Jones held the position of Managing Director of Taqa Europe.

Harvey Gulf International Marine’s parent, HGIM Corp., has announced the appointment of a new Board of Directors to serve following the company’s emergence from Chapter 11 proceedings.

Balances Softer, But Still Constructive

Dominion Energy Virginia and Denmark-based energy company Ørsted took significant steps forward on August 3, 2018, in the development of Virginia's first offshore wind facility. Dominion Energy filed with Virginia's State Corporation Commission (SCC) for approval to build the two 6-megawatt turbines and grid infrastructure needed to connect the facility to the coast./p>

The contract with Shell involves a team which will deliver an integrated verification and class project for the operator's Penguins floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.

Eni announces the approval of the Development Plan for Area 1 discoveries offshore Mexico. This achievement occurs just 32 months after Eni signed the Area 1 Production Sharing Contract (PSC), won in an international bid round, and 17 months after the drilling of the first well.

Seatronics, an Acteon company, global leaders in the rental and sale of marine electronic equipment has doubled its stock of Sonic 2024 Multibeam Echosounders with the acquisition of eleven new systems from long-term supplier R2 Sonic.

Marsol International Limited is the first company in the United Arab Emirates to be awarded ISO 45001:2018 certification by Bureau Veritas. With its main operating and commercial office in Dubai and extensive experience in the offshore marine terminals business, the accreditation reflects Marsol’s commitment to superior standards and employee safety.

Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR), one of Damen Shipyards Group’s most experienced yards in the repair and refit of complex offshore structures, has been awarded a contract by Stena Drilling for a refit of its drilling rig Stena Don.

Global Marine Systems Limited (GMSL) trading as the Global Marine Group (GMG), a market leader in offshore engineering services to the telecommunications, renewables and oil & gas industries, announces that it has appointed Ian Bryan, Managing Director of Group Operations; Mike Daniel, Managing Director of Global Offshore and Mark Preece, Managing Director of CWind to its Board of Directors effective from July 2nd 2018.

McDermott International, Inc. has announced its modification plans to convert the Amazon to an ultra-deepwater J-Lay vessel.

In June, LLOG Exploration delivered first production from their Crown and Anchor field in the Gulf of Mexico. This milestone also represents a major achievement for Aberdeen based Enpro Subsea as it is the first of multiple deployments by LLOG of their patented Flow Access Module (FAM) technology.

The world’s first daughter craft based on surface-effect-ship (SES) technology, supported by the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), has kicked off two months of sea trials at Vattenfall’s Horns Rev 1 and Ørsted’s Horns Rev 2 wind farms. The Sea Puffin’s innovative design aims to enable developers to operate daughter craft vessels in harsher weather conditions, which will be important as wind farms installations move further offshore.

A Synchoist load positioning system, from Enerpac Heavy Lifting Technology, has been used by Finnish wind power production company, Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy, for the installation of gravity base foundations at the Tahkoluoto Offshore Wind Farm, Pori, Finland. The Tahkoluoto Wind Farm is the world’s first offshore windfarm designed for operation in ice conditions.

Stork Technical Services Trinidad and Tobago Ltd, has become the first business in Central and South America to achieve OPITO approval for the way it monitors and develops the skills and competence of its maintenance workers in the region.