MODEC cheers first oil from Brazilian FPSO

Japan’s MODEC has confirmed the start of production from a new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is deployed at Petrobras’ giant deepwater oil field in the pre-salt Santos Basin off the coast of Brazil. MODEC announced on Monday, 5 June 2023, that the FPSO Almirante Barroso MV32, deployed for production operations at the Búzios... Continue Reading →

Crowley Invests in Tugdock’s Floating Dry Dock Platform to Boost U.S. Floating Offshore Wind

(OE) U.S.-based maritime logistics and offshore services firm Crowley on Wednesday announced a new investment in Tugdock. Tugdock has developed "the world’s first road-transportable floating dry dock" known as the Tugdock Submersible Platform (TSP), to help advance offshore wind energy in the U.S. Crowley and Tugdock will explore the potential use of the platforms in... Continue Reading →

Ocean Ventus Launches Low-Steel Wind Floater

Ocean Ventus has launched a low-cost, low-steel floating wind solution which has received Approval in Principle from DNV. It has a tubular design, and its main steel weight is approximately 3,000t for a 15MW turbine. Offshore wind targets imply an eight-fold increase in installed capacity to 2030, with 32 GW of floating wind expected to... Continue Reading →

First US-Built Offshore Wind Substation Sets Sail

Offshore wind developers Ørsted and Eversource marked the sailaway of the first U.S.-built offshore wind substation, which departed a Texas fabrication facility Wednesday.  The substation is transiting across the Gulf of Mexico and then up the East Coast for installation at the South Fork Wind project site in a few weeks. Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd.... Continue Reading →

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