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The floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) is now securely anchored on the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea. The hook-up of the FPSO to the subsea facilities, preparing it for production start-up towards the end of the year, will now start. “This is an important milestone for Equinor and its partners...

From 24 to 27 September 2024, it is once again time for the famous port city of Hamburg to become the world’s energy hub. For four days, it will be all about wind energy generation and distribution at WindEnergy Hamburg, held on the campus of Hamburg Messe und Congress (HMC). Every two years one...

Altera Infrastructure are pleased to announce that an operations and maintenance contract with Equinor for the Petrojarl Knarr FPSO has now become effective. This vessel is set for deployment on the Rosebank field with a nine-year firm contract, and options extending up to 25 years. This follows the final investment decision by Equinor and...

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate and the Petroleum Safety Authority are changing their names. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre emphasises that both agencies are crucial in the effort to further evolve the Norwegian shelf, both within oil and gas as well as new industries. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre visited the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD)...

Praxis Automation has been awarded a long-term collaborative contract by Rawabi Vallianz Offshore Service (RVOS), a Saudi world class support service provider to the offshore industry. RVOS is one of the offshore service companies of Rawabi Energy company. Under this RVOS fleet-wide contract, new build and existing offshore support vessels will be equipped with...

SMST is rapidly expanding its presence in the emerging US offshore wind industry. Recently, Marine Procurement (MPL) based in Scotland has awarded SMST a contract for the delivery of a 5t Motion Compensated Crane to operate for the Empire Wind project, located offshore New York. The SMST crane with 3D motion compensated knuckle, a...

ADIPEC 2023 will take place in Abu Dhabi from 2-5 October, bringing together industry leaders, innovators, and policymakers to accelerate the practical action and credible solutions needed to tackle the biggest challenges in energy and climate. Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab...

Petrobras signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with TotalEnergies and Casa dos Ventos this Thursday (14/09), so that they can analyse a number of renewable energy projects in Brazil. The objective is to produce joint studies on the business opportunities from onshore wind farming, offshore wind farming, solar power and low-carbon hydrogen within this...

With the Statfjord Øst project, Equinor and its partners expect to increase production by 26 million barrels of oil equivalents. The project is completed with sound safety results and is expected to deliver within estimated cost, despite the inflation and weakened Norwegian krone. Production starts six months ahead of schedule. “This proves the importance...

Salamander, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea 7, has appointed Fugro to conduct a comprehensive metocean survey for the proposed Salamander offshore wind farm project. Located 35km off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland, the 100MW project will use innovative floating offshore wind technologies to help Scotland and the UK progress...

DeepOcean has entered into a long-term charter agreement for a newbuild unmanned surface vessel (USV) which will be utilised for subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) and survey work in the offshore renewables and oil and gas industries. DeepOcean is chartering the vessel from USV AS – a joint venture company established by Solstad...

Nexans has announced an expansion in its presence in the offshore wind and interconnection market, by adding a third cable laying vessel to its fleet. This strategic decision will allow the Group to meet the increasing demand for electrification, especially in the American and European markets, driven by a record project backlog and recently...

PD&MS, a specialist engineering services company operating within the energy transition, conventional energy, low carbon and renewables sectors, has been acquired by RSK, a global leader in the delivery of sustainable solutions. The Aberdeen-based company has been operating since 2002. Synergie Environ and Optimus joined PD&MS in 2021 and 2022, respectively. The business works...

The Government of Curaçao has asked Fugro to map the seabed of the island’s surrounding waters for future development of floating offshore wind farms. The Curaçao Government’s target is to realise 6GW in renewable energy capacity by 2035, which is more than the domestic need for energy, ultimately enabling the production and export of...

Germany has announced the results of its biggest offshore wind auction to date. 7GW of new capacity were awarded. The auction design required project developers to pay for the right to build their wind farms. This uncapped negative bidding means costs will have to be passed on to consumers, and to the wind supply...

C-Kore Systems recently delivered their automated subsea testing tools for a large subsea construction campaign in Brazilian waters. The C-Kore tools will be used to perform the subsea electrical verification of new umbilicals after installation. C-Kore’s subsea testing tools are used by operators and installation contractors around the world on both installation campaigns and...

Sparrows Group has secured a three-and-a-half-year contract with INEOS FPS to provide crane and lifting equipment operations, maintenance, engineering, and inspection services on the company’s Unity platform. Sparrows has worked with INEOS FPS since 2017. The contract will include all mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and structural maintenance of cranes and lifting equipment, which will be...

The first 32m parallel hybrid crew transfer vessel (CTV) designed by Incat Crowther for Emden-based EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO) has been successfully delivered, with the vessel already servicing Germany’s offshore wind industry. Windea One is the world’s first CTV to utilise Volvo Penta’s new parallel hybrid system together with IPS propulsion and can be...

Egypt’s Sumed pipeline operator Arab Petroleum Pipeline Company has completed the tailshaft conversion to Thordon’s SXL seawater-lubricated bearing system for seven special purpose single point mooring (SPM) service boats. The final vessel in a series of 17.5m long, 1976–built service boats had its original oil-lubricated tailshaft bearings replaced with the Thordon system at Nefertiti...

Cable-laying vessel Isaac Newton, multipurpose vessel Adhémar de Saint-Venant, and a remotely-controlled cable burying vehicle of consortium Jan De Nul Group-LS Cable & System have completed the installation of the second marine cable for the offshore wind farm ‘west Alpha’. In recent weeks, more than 60km of cable was laid and buried in the...

As part of the global roll out of offshore floating solar, SolarDuck together with its project partners, TNB Renewables (TRe) and TNB Research (TNBR), wholly owned subsidiaries of Tenaga Nasional Berhad, the largest electricity utility in Malaysia, and Hydro Extrusion Norway, a leading aluminium and energy company committed to a sustainable future, is pleased...

Ørsted and Vestas announced a commercial sustainability partnership, recently. Ørsted will procure low-carbon steel wind turbine towers and blades made from recycled materials from Vestas in all joint offshore wind projects. The deployment of offshore wind is crucial to enhancing energy security, advancing affordable energy for all, and not least curbing the climate crisis....

Jan De Nul Group has signed an agreement with RWE for the long-term chartering of two next-generation installation vessels for future offshore wind foundation and turbine construction. The charters are supported by a Service Agreement through which Jan De Nul Group will provide both in-house and market solutions and services, to support and perform...

Jan De Nul’s heavy lift vessel Les Alizés has been getting ready for its first assignment, the transport and installation of 107 monopile foundations and one offshore substation topside at Ørsted’s Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms. The vessel departed the CMHI Haimen Shipyard in China in January this year,...

International engineering and contracting group Semco Maritime has entered an agreement to acquire Wind Multiplikator Group, the German full-service provider specialised in management of offshore wind farms and projects as well as provisioning of engineering and consulting services. The transaction also includes all activities in offshore service provider OWS Offshore Wind Solutions, which is...