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Singapore-based Sembcorp Marine said Monday it was proposing to change its name from “Sembcorp Marine Ltd” to “Seatrium Limited." This follows the completion of the combination of the company's businesses and Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd on February 28, 2023, and will adopt a new branding for the enlarged entity. "The proposed change of name... Continue Reading →
(OE) Danish wind turbine maker Vestas said Friday it had signed a preferred supplier agreement to supply its giant 15MW offshore wind turbines for a floating wind project in South Korea. Vestas did not say who the client was. It did say that the floating offshore wind project would have a capacity of 495 MW.... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L) is splitting up its renewables and low-carbon division as part of CEO Wael Sawan's shake-up to boost the energy giant's returns. The changes come as Sawan, who took office at the start of the year, has signalled in recent weeks that Shell is considering ditching oil reduction output targets as part of its... Continue Reading →
(RN) CIP, through its New Markets Fund, and the Philippines Government have signed a series of Offshore Wind Service Contracts with aggregate capacity estimated at 2GW. The fund signed the 25-year contracts with the Department of Energy, making CIP the first company to venture on a 100% foreign-owned basis into offshore wind development in the... Continue Reading →
(CGTN) Goldwind, the world's top wind turbine supplier in 2022, expects the global offshore wind power market to expand hundreds-fold, possibly even thousands-fold, in the next few decades. "The global offshore wind power development we see now is just the beginning," Wu Kai, vice president of Goldwind, told CGTN in Beijing. "With the comprehensive utilization... Continue Reading →
Helix Energy Solutions' robotics division Helix Robotics Solutions said Monday it had won a trenching services contract with "a leading renewables cable installation contractor." The contract is for the trenching of inter-array and export cables as part of a 640MW wind farm offshore Taiwan. Under the contract, Helix plans to mobilize its newly acquired T1400-1... Continue Reading →
While the global energy crisis marked 2022, efforts to propel the energy transition forward in a bid to usher in a sustainable energy future continued gaining momentum. As a result, last year was also a bumper year for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), as more than 140 new... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) (9501.T) said on Monday that it had won the rights to develop up to 1.9 gigawatts (GW) of floating offshore wind capacity across two projects in Scotland together with Norway-based company Vargronn. Many once-conventional energy and power companies around the globe are switching their attention to renewable energy, such... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Japan's top utility JERA has agreed to buy Parkwind, Belgium's largest offshore wind platform, for 1.55 billion euros ($1.7 billion), as it expands in renewable power to meet decarbonisation goals. JERA, a joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (9501.T) and Chubu Electric Power Co Inc (9502.T), will add Parkwind's four offshore wind farms in... Continue Reading →
(OED) Floating offshore wind developer BlueFloat Energy said Thursday that its 1GW ‘Winds of September’ floating wind project had taken a step further by deploying a floating LiDAR in the waters off Hsinchu, Taiwan. The project was named after the strong winds blowing in the Hsinchu region every September, and is BlueFloat Energy’s first project... Continue Reading →
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