GUH: Major projects await but subsea sector needs more visibility
Global Underwater Hub CEO Neil Gordon says the subsea sector needs clearer visibility on major projects in wind, oil and gas and defence.
Global Underwater Hub CEO Neil Gordon says the subsea sector needs clearer visibility on major projects in wind, oil and gas and defence.
The skills supply and demand dilemma is once more at the forefront of a set of very big challenges facing the underwater industry.
I spent nearly ten very happy and rewarding years working offshore with a great bunch of people operating deep water manned submersibles and ROVs mainly in the N Sea.
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UK Technology SME, Viper Innovations, is celebrating the continued success of its award-winning V-LIM product, as global sales of the advanced monitoring device exceed 350 units.
Aberdeenshire start-up company Legasea is to invest ยฃ1.3 million in its offshore recycling operation โ creating up to eight โgreenโ jobs.
Subsea opportunities will be plentiful in Asia Pacific over the coming years as international oil companies (IOCs) and national oil companies (NOCs) advance a backlog of projects, while offshore wind developers accelerate activity across the region.
Subsea experts and innovators are eager to contribute to the global energy transition by leveraging the technology, people, competencies and financial muscle developed over many decades at the cutting edge of offshore development and operations.
Momentum is building within the UKโs energy sector and the blue economy.
Six years ago, Equinor began a journey towards the creation of standardised docking infrastructure for subsea drones, a new class of vehicle with the potential to revolutionise robotic support in the oil & gas and maritime renewables sectors worldwide.
โYou would like to think it was good planning,โ joked Neil Gordon, chief executive of the Global Underwater Hub (GUH), โbut I think itโs just fortunate that, at the moment, it looks as if everything has landed well for us.โ
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Leaders from government, offshore energy, renewables, defence and aquaculture will gather in Aberdeen later this month for a much-anticipated conference.
Ashtead Technology is forecasting a buoyant balance sheet after a โstrong performanceโ in 2021.
Maybe yesterday should be renamed Green Monday rather than Blue Monday. It was certainly a day to celebrate the ambition for renewable energy in Scotland as the ScotWind licencing round was announced with provision for significantly more GW than anticipated.
The worldโs top market for subsea tie-backs will take an inflation-driven cost increase of ยฃ4.8billion on upcoming contract awards through to 2026.
In a year that continued to be dominated by the pandemic and the rapid acceleration of the energy transition, both the underwater industry and its representative body have been evolving.
Subsea Integration Alliance, comprising Subsea 7 and OneSubsea, will provide engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) of subsea pipelines and production systems for Woodsideโs Scarborough project offshore north West Australia after announcing the deal.
A leading Aberdeen-based electrical and subsea supplier has continued its 40th anniversary celebrations with the creation of a new division.
Neptune Energy has awarded Maersk Supply Service (MSS) a contract for subsea decommissioning at its Juliet field in the southern North Sea.
Subsea energy storage company EC-OG has appointed an experienced business leader to its board to help power the companyโs growth.
Subsea service firm Rovop said it is on a โstrong growth trajectoryโ after securing contracts valued at ยฃ25million in the last six months.
French power company EDF Group (EPA:EDF) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore government-owned utilities company SP Group to jointly develop a subsea transmission cable to enable renewable energy imports from Indonesia to Singapore.
Cross talk effects in subsea umbilicals are not always recognised.