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May 6 (offshoreWIND.biz) China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation has completed the installation of a 16 MW floating offshore wind turbine, described as the world’s largest single-unit floating wind turbine platform, off Yangjiang, Guangdong. The Sanxia Linghang (Three Gorges Pilot) platform was installed on 2 May in waters located more than 70 kilometres offshore at depths... Continue Reading →
April 23 (OE) Over the last few years, the energy trilemma has pivoted away from energy transition to energy security and affordability. As a result, offshore oil & gas exploration and production activity, including deepwater activity, has been relatively healthy. Construction, operational support and decommissioning activity has supported the deployment of large anchor handlers and... Continue Reading →
Feb. 26 (OE) Intermoor, Acteon’s Moorings and Anchors business been awarded a new contract by Petrobras for the provision of stack-up mooring system services in Brazil. This work will support light-workover interventions and abandonment operations on installed subsea Christmas trees across both anchored and dynamically positioned mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) and well intervention vessels (WIVs).... Continue Reading →
Feb 24 (PN) Petrobras President Magda Chambriard announced that the company completed the anchoring of the P-79 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the Búzios field, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, in record time. The activity was completed in just 12 days, an unprecedented milestone for the company among its... Continue Reading →
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 →
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