Subsea Expo Awards Raises Over $6k for UK Food Charity
meals to the people who need them most. Around 450 guests attended the dinner at P&J Live in Aberdeen, which was held as part of the annual Subsea Expo exhibition and conference that provides a showcase for the UK’s underwater industry. During the evening, which was sponsored by Next Geosolutions, eight awards were presented to companies based across the United Kingdom recognizing innovation, safety, business performance, export achievement and talent.Global Underwater Hub selected FareShare, the UK’s leading food redistribution charity, as the beneficiary of fundraising on the night
UK Companies Honored at Subsea Expo Awards
;s underwater industry, which generates £9.2 billion annually for the national economy.Organized by Global Underwater Hub, the prestigious Subsea Expo Awards celebrate outstanding achievements in the subsea and wider underwater sectors. This year’s black-tie ceremony, sponsored by Next Geosolutions, occurred Wednesday evening at P&J Live. The event featured entertainment from renowned actor, writer, and former MP Gyles Brandreth, who captivated attendees with anecdotes from his distinguished career.Recognizing Excellence Across the IndustryEight awards highlighted innovation, safety
NextGeo Scoops $27.8M for North Sea Offshore Wind Surveys
Marine geosciences and offshore construction support services firm Next Geosolutions has been hired by TenneT under a $27.8 million contract to conduct an unexploded ordnances (UXO) survey off the Dutch coast, in support of the development of offshore wind farms.This contract involves the execution of marine UXO survey, to identify and locate magnetic anomalies potentially associated with unexploded ordnance, which may represent obstacles to the installation of new offshore infrastructure, in the Doordewind offshore wind area.Additionally, the contract includes an UXO survey in the Nederwiek offshore
Next Geosolutions Buys Offshore Survey Vessel for $7M
Marine geosciences and offshore construction support services firm Next Geosolutions has acquired a multi-purpose survey vessel (MPSV) from Beitveit Holding for $7.1 million.The vessel, Sea Admiral, will be renamed NG EXPLORER, and will be used for geophysical, geotechnical, environmental and UXO surveys.The NG EXPLORER, with a length of 58 meters and a width of 14 meters, is an MPSV built in 2010 and equipped with a Dynamic Positioning Class II (DP2) system and diesel-electric propulsion that will raise the Italian flag and be operational from the first quarter of 2025.The ship will undergo refitting
ASL to Work on Metocean Data for Offshore Wind Project in Atlantic Canada
ASL Environmental Sciences has secured research and development subcontract from Ireland-based Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions as part of a metocean data needs assessment for the development of offshore wind projects in Atlantic Canada for Natural Resources Canada.The primary objective of the work is to identify all types of metocean data needed to enable successful offshore wind project development in Atlantic Canada.Following a review of existing datasets, and a dataset gap analysis, ASL will be making recommendations for specific appropriate measures to collect necessary datasets. The analysis
Venterra Acquires Subsea Energy Services Provider Oceanscan
, geotechnical services and specialist personnel to the offshore energy market.Oceanscan is highly complementary to Venterra’s service lines, particularly within its geoscience and survey teams, which are underpinned by the expertise of its companies - Ordtek, Partrac and Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG).Founded in 1989, Oceanscan is headquartered in Aberdeen with overseas subsidiaries in Houston and Singapore. Oceanscan Holdings Limited has four UK subsidiaries, including Oceanscan Limited, Hydrographic Personnel Resources (UK) Limited, Geoforce Technical Services and Sercal Non-Destructive
Venterra’s GDG to Provide Geophysical Services for Polish Offshore Wind Farm
Venterra Group's company Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG), a global offshore wind services provider, has secured a contract to provide early supervisory and investigatory geophysical and geotechnical services for the Baltica 1 offshore wind farm.As part of the contract with Poland’s PGE Baltica, GDG will provide services which include the development of a ground model and the conceptual design of foundations for subsequent design stages for the Baltica 1 offshore wind farm.Having worked in Poland for more than a decade and establishing a local presence in 2022, Venterra has been at the
NextGeo Concludes Tyrrhenian Link's East Section Survey for Prysmian
Marine geoscience and offshore construction support service provider Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has completed all the pre-installation survey tasks for the Tyrrhenian Link East branch on behalf of Prysmian.The works entailed extensive marine detailed geophysical, geotechnical, UXO, archaeological and environmental survey activities along the Terna’s submarine power line connecting the landing points in Sicily and in Campania with two HVDC cables, approximately 485 kilometres long each.Additional survey tasks have been executed in the nearshore sections of the corridor, including boreholes
Bell Joins Rovco as Head of Geoscience
windfarm site investigations. He has more than 20 years’ global experience in marine site characterisation and has lived and worked in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Europe.Bell graduated from Bangor University, Wales, with a BSc in Geological Oceanography in 2002, before joining Thales GeoSolutions as a graduate geophysicist. His previous employers also include Fugro and EGS Indonesia. He worked offshore for 10 years as a geophysicist and party chief and has a decade of experience in managing teams of geophysicists and in the interpretation of a broad range of geophysical data, on complex
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