(OE) RWE has selected Argeo, a subsea service provider, to perform the site investigation work for Canopy offshore wind farm, a 1.6 GW floating wind project located off the coast of Northern California. The site investigation survey is a key milestone in the development of RWE’s first commercial scale floating offshore wind farm. The planned... Continue Reading →
Netherlands: 2GW Offshore Wind Farm Co-Located with Floating Solar Gets Go-Ahead
(OE) Zeevonk, a joint venture of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Vattenfall, has secured a permit to build 2 GW offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, which will be co-located with floating solar farm and feature green hydrogen production system. The IJmuiden Ver Beta project will include a 50 MWp floating offshore solar farm on... Continue Reading →
Hitachi Energy investing $4.5B to accelerate energy transition, new jobs on the horizon
(Offshore-energy.biz) Hitachi Energy is planning to invest an additional $4.5 billion in manufacturing, engineering, digital, R&D and partnerships by 2027, doubling the investments done in the last three years, to accelerate the energy transition. The investment, complementing the recently announced $1.5 billion investment to ramp up global transformer production, is expected to enable Hitachi Energy to meet... Continue Reading →
Petrobras and Shearwater Join Forces for Seismic Tech R&D
Brazilian state-owned energy company Petrobras and seismic acquisition company Shearwater Geoservices have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for joint development and execution of scientific research and technology innovation within seismic processing and acquisition focused on data quality, value and efficiency. The five-year agreement comes in addition to previously announced cooperations between the two companies... Continue Reading →
Vard Launches Prysmian’s Monna Lisa Cable Layer
Norwegian shipbuilder Vard has launched a 171-meter-long cable laying vessel (CLV) Monna Lisa, being built for Prysmian, marking another major milestone towards the delivery of the vessel, scheduled for 2025. Prysmian executives gathered at the VARD shipyard in Tulcea, Romania to celebrate the launching of the new CLV Monna Lisa, the sister ship to the... Continue Reading →
Drilling gets underway at Fénix Field offshore Argentina
(OM) Development drilling has started at the Fénix Field, 60 km offshore Tierra del Fuego, southern Argentina. The jackup Noble Regina Allen is stationed alongside the new Fénix production platform, which was installed in February. Operator Total Austral has commissioned three development wells to be drilled and completed over the next months. Once online, the production will head through... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s Eletrobras signs $878 million deal to sell gas-fired plants
(Reuters) - Brazil's Eletrobras (ELET6.SA), opens new tab, Latin America's largest utility, has signed a deal to sell its portfolio of thermoelectric power plants to Ambar Energia for a total 4.7 billion reais ($878.01 million), it said in a securities filing on Monday. The deal's price tag includes an earn-out of 1.2 billion reais, according to... Continue Reading →
Baker Hughes Gets Multi-Year P&A Contract from Petrobras for Fields Off Brazil
(OE) U.S. oilfield services giant Baker Hughes has secured a contract from Brazil state-owned oil and gas major Petrobras for workover and plug and abandonment (P&A) services in pre-salt and post-salt fields offshore Brazil. The multi-year project, set to start in the first half of 2025, will be managed with Baker Hughes’ integrated solutions portfolio... Continue Reading →
Six Innovators Selected to Advance New York’s Offshore Wind Potential
(OE) The Offshore Wind Innovation Hub, led by Equinor, has selected six companies that will receive support to further develop their ideas and advance offshore wind’s potential in New York. Six companies were selected from a pool of 78 applicants based on the novelty of their solutions that will help propel the United States to... Continue Reading →
Germany to Build More Offshore Wind than Originally Planned
(Reuters) Germany plans to build more wind turbines in the North and Baltic seas than originally planned, a draft plan by the maritime authority showed on Friday, as Berlin aims to have 70 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2045. Germany's Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) on Friday published a draft containing specifications for offshore... Continue Reading →