Bluefield Geoservices (Bluefield) has added three more professionals to the firm’s engineering and operations team following several recent contract wins in the United States and Europe. The new Bluefield employees—Lev Belskiy as geotechnical project manager and Jonathan Bell and Dariusz Nowak as geotechnical technicians — bring a diverse wealth of offshore geotechnics experience to the subsea geotechnical services provider and will play instrumental roles in the company’s planned expansion on both sides of the Atlantic in 2023.
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Bluefield Geoservices (Bluefield), an international subsea geotechnical services provider, today released details of what the company believes to be the deepest-ever successful offshore Cone Penetration Test (CPT), carried out in ultra-deep-water depths of more than 4,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean. Bluefield operators successfully completed 23 seafloor CPTs to a push depth of 2 meters as part of an ongoing geotechnical site investigation campaign to assess the ocean floor conditions that characterize this vast abyssal plain.
In May 2022, Bluefield Geoservices (Bluefield), an international marine geotechnical services provider, was awarded International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certifications by the British Standards Institute (BSI), including ISO 45001:2018 (health and safety management) and ISO 9001:2015 (quality management). By demonstrating its implementation of the stringent criteria incorporated within these standards, Bluefield proves its commitment to the Company’s workforce and clients, ensuring best in class service delivery globally.
Bluefield Geoservices (Bluefield), an international subsea geotechnical services provider, recently announced its third survey project offshore the US this season, the latest being an export cable route site investigation off the Northeast US for a major offshore wind project. The campaign will see Bluefield execute in situ cone penetration test (CPT) testing and vibrocorer sampling, onshore and offshore lab testing, and reporting along two power cable routes.
Besides Bluefield Geoservices’ custom geotechnologies and geoengineering solutions, the team’s differential is the breath and caliber of professional experience. In a series of short Q&As, we shine a spotlight on the experts Redefining Geoscientific Frontiers.
The seabed environment poses well-documented challenges for offshore developers. The build-out of safe and sustainable offshore infrastructure hinges on the robust geotechnical analysis of seabed soil and bedrock conditions. After all, offshore assets, be them oil platforms or wind turbines, typically tower hundreds of meters above their foundations and are constantly subjected to considerable (and variable) environmental lateral loads and geohazards.
Bluefield Geoservices U.S., an international subsea geotechnical services provider, recently took delivery of a ROSON 100 CPT unit to support growth plans in the Americas. The CPT, the latest addition to the firm’s expanding portfolio of geotechnical equipment, will be managed by the company’s Newport office, in Rhode Island, and will serve the immediate demands of the offshore renewable energy market in the region.