Subsea Services

VESSELS

VESSELS

An Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) is on its way from Europe to Australia to carry out inspection, maintenance and repair operations with new onboard monitoring technology.

4th September 2025

Down Under within Reach: USV sets sail for Australia

4th September 2025

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Moves are being made towards a network of subsea tunnels to connect four of Scotland’s remote Shetland Islands, which are nearer to Norway than the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh.

4th September 2025

Network of subsea tunnels planned for Shetland Isles

4th September 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A 20km offshore carbon dioxide pipeline has been installed in the North Sea to send the gas to storage reservoirs.

29th August 2025

VIDEO: North Sea carbon capture in progress

29th August 2025

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

A subsea equipment repair base has been opened in Florida by Drift Offshore, a UK firm that says it is answering a shortfall of such facilities in the US.

28th August 2025

UK firm opens subsea repair firm in US

28th August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

High-tech robotics and autonomous navigation firm Exail is building on its success with its USVs with another sale, this time to an unnamed ‘global hydrographic authority’.

28th August 2025

Exail expands sales with autonomous USV order

28th August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Saildrone’s Surveyor class of Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) has been given full classification by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), the first for a deep-sea unmanned platform, it says.

27th August 2025

VIDEO: Saildrone’s ‘Surveyor’ USV wins classification

27th August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Marine contractor Van Oord is to breathe life into thousands of oysters to mitigate the damage caused to the North Sea bed by the growing scale of wind farms, cables and other…

27th August 2025

Van Oord lays foundations for North Sea oyster revival

27th August 2025

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Finland’s National Prosecution Authority has filed charges against a tanker suspected of severing five submarine cables by dragging its anchor on the seabed for 90 kilometres.

21st August 2025

Finland files charges for submarine cable sabotage

21st August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

The UK’s University of Plymouth will deliver a C-Enduro Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) to the Royal Navy, with maritime autonomy and smart shipping applications firm Robosys retrofitting it with its VOYAGER AI Autonomous Navigation…

21st August 2025

Royal Navy orders USV and automation technology

21st August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

To maintain its global leadership in subsea rock installation (SRI) and support the offshore energy transition, Van Oord has announced the construction of two new state-of-the-art vessels.

21st August 2025

Van Oord invests in methanol vessels

21st August 2025