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(Reuters) Italy's Saipem has started work at the Courseulles-sur-Mer offshore wind project in Normandy, the energy group's CEO Alessandro Puliti said on Monday, adding that the wind farm should be completed in 2025. Some big offshore wind projects around the world have recently been cancelled or delayed due to cost increases, and financial analysts were... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) The US Department of Interior (DOI) will hold an offshore wind lease sale in the Central Atlantic in August this year, with the two areas auctioned by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) potentially generating up to 6.3 GW of renewable energy. BOEM will hold the auction on 14 August, featuring one area located... Continue Reading →
(OE) Oilfield services firm Archer has entered into an agreement with Remold Invest to fully acquire the floating offshore wind solutions provider Moreld Ocean Wind (MOW), including a minority stake in U.S.-French technology company Ocergy (OCY). With around 30 engineers based in Norway, MOW delivers project management and engineering for fabrication and assembly of floating... 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 →
(Reuters) A proposed large natural gas project in Guyana by U.S. energy developer Fulcrum LNG includes partnerships with U.S. oil service company Baker Hughes and engineering firm McDermott, the country's vice president said on Thursday. Guyana's President Irfaan Ali last week said Fulcrum LNG had been chosen from among 17 companies to help Guyana develop... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) European wind energy industry organisation, WindEurope, has warned that the negative bidding approach will lead to the bid costs falling onto the supply chain and/or electricity consumers after Germany and the Netherlands closed their latest offshore wind tenders, securing nearly EUR 4 billion in total through winning bids. In both countries, the offshore wind... Continue Reading →
(OE) Fugro has been awarded a site characterization contract for a 684 MW offshore wind farm development off the coast of the Japanese cities of Murakami and Tainai, Niigate Prefecture, Japan. The offshore wind farm off the country’s west coast will be developed and realized by a consortium of RWE, Mitsui and Osaka Gas. Fugro’s... Continue Reading →
(OE) Iberdrola has taken the final investment decision (FID) for its Windanker offshore wind farm, located in the German Baltic Sea, advancing the 315 MW project to delivery phase. Windanker wind farm will reinforce Iberdrola’s Baltic Hub, which will add more than 1,100 MW of installed offshore wind capacity, comprising also the Wikinger project with 350 MW,... Continue Reading →
3R PETROLEUM ÓLEO E GÁS S.A. (“3R”) and ENAUTA PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A. (“Enauta” and, jointly with 3R, the “Companies”), under the terms of article 157, §4, of Law No. 6,404, December 15, 1976 (“Brazilian Corporate Law”), CVM Resolution No. 44, August 23, 2021, following the material facts disclosed on April 1 and 9, 2024, and May 17,... Continue Reading →
(OE) Norwegian seismic firm TGS has announced a new campaign for offshore wind and metocean measurement located in Morro Bay, off the U.S. West Coast. This initiative further expands the company's pioneering multi-client wind and metocean measurement initiatives in key global offshore wind regions. The campaign seeks to greatly enhance the industry's understanding of offshore... Continue Reading →
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