Subsea & Survey

Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc., a leading steel fabricator and service provider to the industrial and energy sectors, has been awarded multiple subsea fabrication projects from a leading integrated subsea engineering, procurement, construction and installation (“EPCI”) company.

Saipem has been awarded two offshore contracts, one in Guyana and the other in Brazil, worth approximately $1.9 billion.

Unique Group, global innovators in subsea technologies and engineering, has announced the launch of two Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs), the Uni-Mini and Uni-Max. The USV systems have been developed entirely in-house, designed for surveying operations and engineered to meet diverse operational needs across challenging environments.

Kraken Robotics Inc. has been awarded a contract for a specialized sub-seabed survey to map the exact location and integrity of buried pipelines. The contract, valued at $1 million, will be completed in the first half of 2024. It builds off a previous sub-seabed acoustic survey that Kraken completed last year.

The APACHE 3 Pro is a compact hydrographic drone for autonomous bathymetric surveys. Featuring CHCNAV's GNSS RTK + Inertial Navigation sensor, the Apache 3 Pro provides high precision positioning even GNSS signal is temporarily interrupted.

Rovco has successfully completed all survey work on behalf of Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn for the planned Cenos floating offshore windfarm located in the Central North Sea, 200 kilometers off the coast of North-east Scotland.

Dril-Quip, Inc., a global leader in offshore drilling solutions, is delighted to announce its selection, after a competitive process, as supplier of drill-through systems for Petrobras' pre-salt development wells.

McDermott has been awarded a sizeable* engineering, procurement, removal and disposal contract by Santos. The offshore decommissioning award is for the full removal and disposal of the Campbell platform structure, which is part of the Varanus Island Hub offshore infrastructure in Western Australia.

Salamander, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7, has successfully launched floating LiDAR and wave buoys as part of the metocean campaign for the proposed floating offshore wind farm project off the North East of Scotland.

Subsea7 has announced the award of a sizeable contract by Shell for the decommissioning of subsea infrastructure associated with the FPSO Fluminense in the Bijupirá and Salema fields of the Campos Basin, at 700m water depth.

In September, Argeo announced the purchase of three new advanced AUV’s from Kongsberg, two Hugin Superiors and one Hugin 6000. On November 14, the contracts for all three vehicles were formally signed at Kongsberg’s premises in Horten.

DOF Group is pleased to announce a contract with Subsea7 for a Time Charter of Skandi Acergy, adding a minimum of 18 months firm backlog, at a value in the range $85–105 million, to the Group. Commencement is expected to be Q1 2025 after the vessels current commitments.