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(offshoreWIND.biz) Milad Sheikhi, Head of Sales and Business Development – Offshore Wind at Jumbo Offshore discusses the way forward for standardisation in offshore wind. Is regulatory restriction the way forward for offshore wind – or will a free market approach yield more rapid returns? With increasingly ambitious targets in the coming years, the pressure is... Continue Reading →
(PN) Petronotícias published an exclusive investigation report into the outcome of the Petrobras tender to contract the P-84 and P-85 platforms, for the Atapu and Sépia fields, respectively, in the pre- salt from the Santos Basin. After a few months of negotiations, Seatrium (a company formed by the merger between Sembcorp Marine and Keppel Offshore)... Continue Reading →
(OE) Italian cable maker and installation services provider Prysmian has named Massimo Battaini as its new chief executive officer and general manager. The new CEO appointment also marks the entering into force of the new organizational structure, aimed at supporting the company’s strategic plan and value creation, Prysmian said. The new organization, as already announced... Continue Reading →
(OE) Oil major BP has simplified its organization structure and made executive team changes in an effort to streamline its business operations. BP said it will continue to have three businesses - production and operations, gas and low carbon energy. and customers and products – enabled by trading and shipping. The current regions, corporates and... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Norway's Equinor has been granted a development consent for two extensions on offshore wind projects in Britain, the energy producer said in a statement on Thursday. "With these extensions, Equinor’s wind farms in Norfolk will power nearly 1.5 million households," Equinor said in a statement, adding more assessments would still need to be done... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) Californian floating wind technology developer, Aikido Technologies, will test a scaled prototype of its technology, said to be the world’s first upending semi-submersible platform, through a project named Aikido One. Aikido Technologies has awarded a contract for the fabrication of a 1:4 scale, 100 kW floating wind platform to Chet Morrison Contractors (Morrison), a... Continue Reading →
(OE) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the final air quality permit for Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project located off the coast of Virginia Beach in the United States. Issued on April 9 following a 30-day public comment period, the permit authorizes the construction and operation of the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Spanish renewable energy firm Acciona Energia (ANE.MC), opens new tab has decided to restructure its businesses in Brazil, it said on Tuesday, after Reuters reported the subsidiary of infrastructure giant Acciona (ANA.MC), opens new tab had been downsizing in the country. The company said the decision to reorganize its unit in Latin America's largest economy was a... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Japan has agreed to partner with the United States to help reduce the cost of floating offshore wind projects, the White House said in a statement released during Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's visit to Washington to meet with President Joe Biden. Under the agreement, Japan and the U.S. would work to accelerate developments in... Continue Reading →
(Reuters Breakingviews) - Cable maker Prysmian (PRY.MI), opens new tab is once again in expansion mode. Six years after swooping on General Cable, opens new tab, the acquisitive $15 billion manufacturer of electric wires and fiber connections has agreed, opens new tab to buy smaller U.S. rival Encore Wire (WIRE.O), opens new tab for about $4.2 billion. The deal does not come... Continue Reading →
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