(Reuters) Mozambique expects to ship its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Europe from the Eni-operated Coral Sul floating plant later this month or early November, petroleum regulator INP said on Friday in a supply boost for the energy-starved region. BP's LNG tanker, British Sponsor, has already arrived offshore northern Mozambique, said Welligence Energy Analytics in... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil books DOF Subsea vessels offshore Guyana
Norwegian DOF Subsea has secured a three-year contract for two multipurpose support construction vessels (MPSVs) with Esso Exploration & Production Guyana. DOF Subsea will perform inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR), well-intervention support, and light subsea construction activities to support the “growing” subsea infrastructures in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. The two MPSVs, featuring 250-ton AHC cranes and work-class... Continue Reading →
BRAZIL Oil Production Surpassed 4 Million beod in September
Brazil on its journey to increase oil and gas production. The country achieved an important achievement in September, when it produced 4.048 million barrels of oil equivalent per day – a value that represents 3.148 million barrels of oil and 143 million cubic meters of natural gas. This was the second time in its entire... Continue Reading →
Test Results Are In: Gazelle’s Floating Wind Platform Design Principles Confirmed
Gazelle Wind Power, the developer of a hybrid modular floating offshore wind platform, said Thursday it had received the results of its basin model tests at the Environmental Hydraulics Institute-University of Cantabria (IHCantabria) facilities in Spain. According to Gazelle, the test report, witnessed by DNV and Safier Ingenierie, verified the feasibility of the Gazelle platform’s... Continue Reading →
Mooring & Anchors: InterMoor Wins Floating Wind Gig in Asia
(OE) InterMoor said Thursday it had secured the engineering design scope and the transportation and installation study for two upcoming offshore floating wind farms offshore Asia. The company, a brand in Acteon’s Engineering, Moorings and Foundations Division, said that one wind farm comprised 50-80 turbines, each of 15MW capacity, totalling a capacity of 750- 1200MW,... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s Lula and Bolsonaro statistically tied in presidential race -poll
(Reuters) - Brazil's presidential race has narrowed to a 4-percentage-point gap between leftist front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, and they are now statistically tied, according to a poll published on Wednesday. Datafolha said Lula now has 49% of voter support against 45% for Bolsonaro less than two weeks... Continue Reading →
Offshore Wind Research Project Aims to Deploy Monopiles in Deeper Waters
A new research project, launched this week today, aims to extend the use of offshore wind monopile foundations, to support larger turbines in deeper waters, global climate consultancy the Carbon Trust has informed. "Monopiles are the cheapest and most widespread offshore wind turbine foundation, however, they experience structural issues as their length and the weight... Continue Reading →
DNV, JIP Partners Enter Phase 2 To Develop Best Practices For Safe Offshore Wind Installation
DNV and its partners on Thursday confirmed the completion of Phase 1 of a joint industry project (JIP) on Bottom Impact and Partially Submerged Conditions, which has resulted in a new framework for optimizing the installation process of offshore wind turbines. "New partners are encouraged to join Phase 2, which will focus on validating models... Continue Reading →
High gas prices spur green hydrogen investment -report
(Reuters) - Soaring natural gas prices have made hydrogen produced from fossil fuels increasingly uneconomic and spurred more than $70 billion of new investment in hydrogen from renewables since war broke out in Ukraine, a report said on Thursday. So-called green or clean hydrogen is made using electrolyzers powered by renewable energy to split water from oxygen,... Continue Reading →
Siemens Gamesa introduces the most powerful wind turbines in Brazil and aims offshore
(Forbes) Siemens Gamesa has started to install a new generation of more powerful machines for onshore wind energy in Brazil, in an important step to increase its competitiveness in a key market for the manufacturer and position itself for the development of the country's offshore wind market, according to a company executive. Brazil will be... Continue Reading →
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