Allseas’ Solitaire has started laying the Gulf of Finland stretch of the Nord Stream gas line in the Baltic Sea.

Allseas’ Solitaire has sailed out of Rotterdam following an equipment retrofit to install part of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Gulf of Finland.

Saipem´s pipelay vessel Castoro Sei is resuming work on the Finnish offshore stretch of the Nordstream gas trunkline installation in the Baltic Sea.

Fairfield Energy has contracted Technip UK to provide subsea engineering, procurement, construction, and installation services for the Dunlin Fuel Gas pipeline project in the northern North Sea.

Subsea 7 has won a $100-million contract for work in the UK sector of the North Sea for an unnamed client.

ClampOn has a Letter of Intent from FMC to supply 19 subsea sand and vibration monitors and pig detectors for Total’s Laggan-Tormore project west of Shetland.

Saipem has won new offshore contracts in various locations worth over €1 billion ($1.267 billion) in total.

BP has awarded Technip a subsea engineering and installation contract for the Devenick field gas/condensate development in the UK northern North Sea, 234 km (145 mi) north east of Aberdeen.

Apache North Sea has contracted Subsea 7 for a pipeline bundle for its newly launched Bacchus subsea development project in the UK central North Sea.

Saipem’s pipelay vessel Castoro Sei has arrived in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to continue construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

GDF Suez has become the fifth participant in the Nord Stream consortium constructing the 1,224-km (760-mi) subsea pipeline taking gas from Russia through the Baltic Sea to western Europe.

Det Norske Veritas has awarded ATEX certification to the final portion of TDW Offshore Services’ remote pig tracking and pressure-monitoring system.

A study is under way into the suitability of sandstones beneath the Moray Firth, 30 mi (48 km) offshore northeast Scotland, for storing emitted carbon dioxide (CO₂).

Gassco has assumed operatorship of the North Sea trunkline which will transport gas from the Gjøa and Vega fields to the FLAGS pipeline system in the UK North Sea.

Statoil has contracted Technip for a pipe-in-pipe flowline for the Marulk field development in the Norwegian Sea.

Corus UK has contracted Bredero Shaw for pipeline coatings for Total’s Laggan-Tormore gas-condensate export project west of Shetland.

Apache Energy has ordered gas flowlines from NKT Flexibles for its Halyard development off Northwest Australia. Delivery is scheduled for September.

Acergy has contracted NKT Flexibles for water injection flowlines for a subsea facilities project on the Draugen field in the Norwegian Sea.

Subsea 7 Inc. has won a $75-million contract for pipeline bundle work in the North Sea.

The shallow water derrick/laybarge GSP Bigfoot 1 will install a subsea pipeline for phase 2 of TPAO’s Akcakoca gas project in the Turkish Black Sea.