Norwegian player bolsters design and engineering across maritime & offshore energy arenas with Brazilian firm buy

(offshore-energy.biz) Oslo-listed energy, marine, and engineering consultancy ABL Group has enlarged its capabilities in the engineering and design segments of the maritime and offshore energy landscape by bringing Proper Marine, a Brazil-based naval architecture and engineering consultancy, into its fold, which enables the latter to merge with the Norwegian company’s design and engineering arm known... Continue Reading →

January 14, 2025 0

DNV Approves Hanwha Ocean’s Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Design

(OE) South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean has secured an Approval in Principle (AIP) from DNV for the preliminary front-end engineering design (Pre-FEED) of its floating offshore wind turbine platform. The floating platform model awarded the AIP is Hanwha Ocean’s proprietary WindHive 15-H3. It is capable of supporting 15 MW offshore wind turbines, with a rotor diameter... Continue Reading →

January 13, 2025 0

Supply Chain Calls for Narrowing Down Floating Wind Platform Designs

(offshoreWIND.biz) “We probably have around 150 different floating wind platform designs at the moment. So how do you design a perfect port for floating wind?”—Tommy Sandtorv, CCO Karmsund Port at Karmsund Port Authority. Sandtorv shared this thought on 26 November at Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) in Amsterdam, during a discussion about the challenges in the... Continue Reading →

December 23, 2024 0

Subsea Redesign Underway for Floating Offshore Wind

Wendy Laursen, Contributing Writer (OE) The 66kV high voltage wet mate connector currently undergoing technical qualification by Baker Hughes weighs in at around one ton and has over 40 liters of dielectric oil protecting copper cable up to 1,200 square millimeters in diameter. The connector is designed to sit on the seabed at the end of... Continue Reading →

December 23, 2024 0

Petrobras begins operation of the SNOX Unit at RNEST

Petrobras informs that it has begun operation of the atmospheric emissions reduction unit (SNOX) at the Abreu e Lima refinery (RNEST), located in the city of Ipojuca, in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. The emissions reduction will allow the refinery to increase its current processing by 27,000 barrels per day (bpd), in compliance with theemissions... Continue Reading →

December 20, 2024 0

Expro Teams Up with Petrobras for New Well Flowmeter Tech

U.S.-based oilfield services provider Expro has signed a technology agreement with Petrobras for the development of a new non-intrusive flowmeter for the optimization of production from oil and gas wells. The technology will provide flow rates and identify flow patterns, generating online and real-time data availability for control and monitoring of slug instabilities to increase... Continue Reading →

December 17, 2024 0

Inyanga Marine Energy Group releases innovative design for 20MW tidal energy project in Wales

Inyanga Marine Energy Group has announced the design blueprint for their 20MW HydroWing technology to be deployed at Morlais in Wales. The tidal energy array will incorporate the revolutionary Tocardo T3 turbine for the first time, with each of the twenty HydroWing units to be powered by two T3 turbines. Inyanga Marine Energy Group have... Continue Reading →

December 16, 2024 0

Aker, Aibel Win FEED Deals for 560 MW Scottish Floater

(offshoreWIND.biz) Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, a joint venture between Plenitude (Eni) and HitecVision, have awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the 560 MW Green Volt floating offshore wind project in Scotland to two partnerships. Aker Solutions, in collaboration with ABB, and Aibel, working with Hitachi Energy, will handle the FEED Phase 1... Continue Reading →

December 16, 2024 0

Kongsberg to Work on Six Hybrid CMM’s PSVs Bound for Petrobras Ops

(OE) Kongsberg Maritime has signed a contract with Compagnie Maritime Monegasque (CMM) to deliver advanced ship design and technology for six hybrid platform supply vessels (PSVs), with oil spill recovery capacity, which will support Petrobras’ offshore operations. CMM was ranked first in Petrobras’ tender for six state-of-the-art, hybrid large multipurpose 5,000 DWT PSVs with oil... Continue Reading →

December 16, 2024 0

Tugdock hits key milestone as its pioneering TSP technology earns DNV endorsement

Tugdock has reached a significant milestone as its Tugdock Submersible Platform (TSP) is awarded the prestigious ‘Statement of Feasibility’ from DNV, the world’s leading independent energy expert and assurance provider. This endorsement recognizes the TSP as a transformative technology with applications across multiple markets, including floating offshore wind, vessel drydocking and decommissioning. The TSP is a... Continue Reading →

December 16, 2024 0

Category: Engineering

Norwegian player bolsters design and engineering across maritime & offshore energy arenas with Brazilian firm buy

DNV Approves Hanwha Ocean’s Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Design

Supply Chain Calls for Narrowing Down Floating Wind Platform Designs

Subsea Redesign Underway for Floating Offshore Wind

Petrobras begins operation of the SNOX Unit at RNEST

Expro Teams Up with Petrobras for New Well Flowmeter Tech

Inyanga Marine Energy Group releases innovative design for 20MW tidal energy project in Wales

Aker, Aibel Win FEED Deals for 560 MW Scottish Floater

Kongsberg to Work on Six Hybrid CMM’s PSVs Bound for Petrobras Ops

Tugdock hits key milestone as its pioneering TSP technology earns DNV endorsement

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