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Dec. 2 - Intermoor, Acteon’s Moorings and Anchors business line, has been awarded a three-year contract by Petrobras, following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston in May 2025. With work due to commence in December 2025, Intermoor will deliver comprehensive quality assurance and traceability services across Petrobras’... Continue Reading →
Aug 11 (PN) Seagems completed the BRAVA Project, carried out in the Atlanta Field, in the Santos Basin. Signed in 2022, the contract included an EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation) campaign, developed in partnership with its shareholder Sapura Energy. The final phase began in April 2024, with the mobilization of the vessel Onix to... Continue Reading →
(OE) Triton Anchor has secured two patents in the United States for its proprietary offshore anchor and subsea deployment tool, with a notice of allowance for the anchor patent also received in Japan. These newly patented technologies mark an advancement in enabling low-cost, low-impact deployment of floating wind, solar, and wave platforms. According to Triton... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) The floating offshore wind project is owned by Parc Eolien Offshore de Provence Grand Large – a subsidiary of EDF Renouvelables, Enbridge Eolien France 2 S.à.r.l (EEF2), a subsidiary of Enbridge Inc., and CPP Investments. Provence Grand Large is a pilot project with three Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines installed 17 kilometres off the coast... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) ABS has approved the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) documents for a deepwater floating offshore wind platform design developed by ECO TLP and Mocean Offshore. According to ABS, with FEED documents approved, the platform design now moves into commercialisation for site-specific projects. “ABS approval for non-site-specific FEED for a wide range of water depths and... Continue Reading →
(OE) TechnipFMC and Prysmian have signed a collaboration agreement to further accelerate the global development of floating offshore wind to help meet growing demand for renewable electricity. The collaboration agreement brings together the technologies and competencies of these two offshore industry leaders, providing the unique capabilities to pioneer a complete water column solution, from seabed... Continue Reading →
(OE) Schottel Marine Technologies has released a report highlighting the potential of its Swift Anchor technology, which found it could deliver up to 12% of Levelised Cost of Energy (LCoE) savings for floating wind farms. The study was carried out in collaboration with London Marine Consultants (LMC) and BVG Associates (BVGA). The 12% LCoE savings... Continue Reading →
(OE) Oil and gas company Enauta has completed the anchoring of the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Atlanta at a field in Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. However, the production start from the unit might face delays due to announced strikes by the officials working in public institutions. In June, Enauta completed the anchoring... Continue Reading →
(OE) Technip Energies, in partnership with Université Gustave Eiffel, Valeco, and OPEN-C Foundation, has launched the PAREF project, an R&D program aimed at accelerating industrial-scale development of floating wind. The project, funded by the French State as part of France 2030 operated by ADEME, aims to design, fabricate, and test a reusable anchoring system, high... Continue Reading →
Philip Lewis, Contributor Examining similarities and differences between the deepwater oil & gas and the emerging floating wind segment. (OE) There has been much excitement around the potential for the offshore wind industry to access deeper water sites through the deployment of floating wind technology. Further, there has been much discussion around the development and deployment... Continue Reading →
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