Subsea & Survey

Aker Solutions has been awarded with a sizeable^[1] contract by TotalEnergies to provide the subsea production system, tools and all related EPCI interfaces for the Lapa South West field Construction, in the pre-salt Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The development concept is a subsea tie-back to the Cidade de Caraguatatuba FPSO, using existing facilities and infrastructure.

Fugro has received a sizeable contract for the Kelidang Cluster gas field development project from Petronas Carigali (PC) Brunei.

Kraken Robotics Inc. provides an update on its SeaVision® 3D underwater laser scanning technology and related service activities. Kraken’s SeaVision inspection technology is primarily used in assisting the offshore energy sector to acquire higher quality subsea asset integrity information, more quickly at a lower cost than competing solutions.

Helix Robotics Solutions, the Robotics division of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. has entered into a three-year charter agreement with two years of options for the DP2 offshore support vessel Glomar Wave for work on a range of opportunities in both the offshore Renewables and Oil & Gas sectors.

ASI Group have deployed a Saab Seaeye Falcon robot into crocodile-infested waters in East Africa. The crocodiles have been preventing manual inspection of remote inland underwater structures supporting East Africa’s power generation.

Ocean services provider DeepOcean has activated an option to request the installation of a battery hybrid system on board the Stril Server multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV).

TOPODRONE, a Swiss based designer and manufacturer of high-precision surveying equipment, has synchronized airborne photogrammetry, and LiDAR and bathymetric surveying methods which was used to study a floating solar farm. The synchronization was performed upon a request from the Israeli drone service provider ERELIS to conduct a pilot project of reservoir surveying with a UAV for ETZ HADEKEL Ltd. in Northern Israel. The surface of the reservoir is covered by solar panels, which made it difficult to carry out work using standard methods of surveying from a boat.

TechnipFMC has been awarded a significant⁽¹⁾ engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract by Wintershall Dea Norge AS for its Dvalin North project.

Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (“Shearwater”) announces the award of two contracts for 4D seismic surveys with Petrobras for the Jubarte and Tartaruga Verde fields in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. Combined, the two surveys together add eight months to the company’s order book.

Grandeur Subserv Ltd, a company specializing in underwater and environmental engineering services, recently acquired Exail Gaps M5 USBL system for shallow water geophysical surveys on the Nigerian coast.

James Fisher Subtech (JF Subtech), provider of specialist technical marine support to the renewables, oil and gas, civil works and salvage markets, and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has been awarded a contract with EDF to undertake diving works at its Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station based in Suffolk, England. The delivery of subsea inspection and maintenance services from a locally based facility will support the continued safe and efficient operation of EDF’s critical energy infrastructure.

OceanTools Ltd, Aberdeen Scotland, announce the signing of a Collaboration Agreement with TMI-Orion Dynamics, headquartered in Montpellier France, for OceanTools to sell their EMA-5 Electric Manipulator Arm.