Brought to you by Quest Offshore & Southern Cone Consultants
Wendy Laursen, Contributing Writer (OE) WTIVs have always been fuel-hungry. Now they are being tasked with installations that are further, deeper and heavier. Offshore wind farms continue their march into deeper water, further from shore, with turbines that can now reach more than 270 meters high with blades 120 meters long. Designers and OEMs are pushing... Continue Reading →
Malaysia’s shipping giant MISC Berhad (MISC), an owner and operator of offshore floating and energy-related maritime solutions and services, has unveiled – what it deems to be – the world’s first future-ready newbuild floating production storage and offloading (NBFPSO) vessel at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. MISC reported on Tuesday, 2 May 2023,... Continue Reading →
(OE) Oilfield services firm SLB, Rockwell Automation, Sensia, and Cognite on Monday announced a collaboration that they say will "accelerate the evolution" of the offshore industry’s floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facilities. According to a press statement issued by SLB, until recently known as Schlumberger, digital capabilities developed by the four-company coalition will improve... Continue Reading →
(OE) Danish offshore wind installation firm Cadeler said Tuesday it had signed two contracts with Ørsted for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. Cadeler said that together, the two contracts constitute a very large contract award. Cadeler classifies a very large contract as being worth between 500-700 million EUR. The first contract... Continue Reading →
(OE) Gazelle Wind Power, a Dublin-based developer of foundations for floating offshore wind farms, is unveiling third-generation technology this week at a wind industry event in Denmark. The company said its enhanced design "further refines Gazelle’s solution to address the primary challenges facing the offshore wind industry—such as cost, supply chain bottlenecks, and sustainability—by providing... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) After a bumper year for floating offshore wind farm tenders, the nascent industry is poised for explosive growth in the coming decade as countries strive to cut their carbon emissions. But it's unlikely to be all plain sailing. Rising costs and supply chain bottlenecks have hit some projects and without investment in infrastructure to... Continue Reading →
(OE) On Friday, Australian oil and gas giant Woodside said that its Sangomar development project offshore Senegal was 82% complete and on target for first oil later this year. Once online, this will be Senegal's first offshore oil project in production. Woodside, the operator of Sangomar, said in its first quarter report that the development... Continue Reading →
(OE) German renewable energy firm RWE said Thursday it would be the first developer in the world to utilize Siemens Gamesa’s GreenerTower at its Danish offshore wind farm Thor. The tower steel plates are made of greener steel that produces at least 63 percent less CO2 emissions compared to conventional steel. According to RWE, 36 of... Continue Reading →
(OM) Remazel Engineering, with work and support from Remazel Asia, has been awarded a contract for the design and manufacturing of a permanent mooring connecting system for floating offshore wind and fish farm integration application by the Chinese company LONGYUAN ZPMC, part of China Longyuan Power. This pilot project is an integrated system of a floating wind turbine and marine aquaculture, and it will be... Continue Reading →
(OE) The HSI consortium comprising HSM Offshore Energy, Smulders, and Iv-Offshore & Energy has won a contract to deliver substations and jackets for the largest offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, the Gennaker. Under the contract, awarded by 50Hertz, the consortium will be responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) of the... Continue Reading →
