(OE) The events of the last month have shown that, despite some negative factors, the impetus to continue to grow the U.S. offshore wind segment has lost little steam. The foundations are firmly in place to support the deployment of 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030 and 110 GW by 2050. Two major... Continue Reading →
SBM Offshore upgrades guidance as it sees benefits from energy transition
(Reuters) - SBM Offshore (SBMO.AS) on Thursday revised its annual guidance upwards as the Dutch oil and gas services firm sees the transition to renewable energies from fossil fuels benefiting its project portfolio, sending its shares higher. The group, which plans to achieve net-zero emissions by no later than 2050, set intermediate greenhouse gas-related targets as the... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies Hails French Floating Pre-Selection
A consortium of TotalEnergies, Corio Generation and Qair has been pre-selected by the French Directorate General for Energy and Climate (DGEC) to participate in a competitive tender to develop two floating windfarms in the Mediterranean Sea.The two projects, of about 250 MW each, could supply enough clean energy to meet the annual electricity consumption of... Continue Reading →
Wood to Deliver Design for Salamander Floating Wind Project in Scotland
Engineering firm Wood said it has been awarded the Principal Designer and Pre-FEED scope for Salamander, the 100MW floating wind farm development located 35km off Peterhead in the East Coast of Scotland. The Salamander project, a joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Ørsted and Subsea 7, will contribute toward achieving the UK government’s target of... Continue Reading →
X1 Wind’s Floater Concept Ready for Testing
Technology developer X1 Wind said it has laid its dynamic cable clearing way for final installation of its fully functional floating wind prototype at the PLOCAN Test Site, in the Canary Islands. Having installed the modular concrete gravity anchoring system last spring, the Barcelona-headquartered firm is now announcing another milestone in its first ocean deployment... Continue Reading →
Cerulean Winds, Ping Petroleum plan UK floating wind-powered offshore oil rig
(Reuters) - Renewables developer Cerluean Winds and Ping Petroleum UK have signed an agreement to create an offshore oil facility powered by wind energy in Britain, the companies said on Tuesday. Under the agreement, the production unit at Ping Petroleum’s Avalon site in the UK's North Sea will be powered by a floating offshore wind... Continue Reading →
WES seeks assessment of floating wind and wave energy mix
(OEM) Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has launched a tender for a study into the techno-economic benefits of shared services and infrastructure for wind and wave energy generation technologies and projects. The challenge is to identify and analyze opportunities for sharing of physical infrastructure, supply chains and services between wave energy and floating wind energy technologies and developments. These opportunities... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7 plants first cables for Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm
Subsea 7 has laid the first subsea cables in the water for the 94.6 MW Hywind Tampen floating wind farm offshore Norway. JDR Cable System is in charge of supplying the electric cables for the project from its factory in Hartlepool, the UK, while Subsea 7 is responsible for the installation of the cables and... Continue Reading →
Floating Wind: DemoSATH Floater Launched in Spain
(OE) Spanish offshore engineering firm Saitec Offshore Technologies and renewables giant RWE on Wednesday marked the completion and the launching operation of their DemoSATH floating wind unit. SATH Technology is based on a concrete platform concept with a plug-and-play Single Point Mooring, the same technology used for FPSOs. The DemoSATH project uses a 2MW turbine... Continue Reading →
Cerulean reveals 6 GW floating offshore wind bid under INTOG leasing round
Green energy infrastructure developer Cerulean Winds has revealed it will bid for four seabed lease sites with a combined capacity of 6 GW of floating wind to decarbonise the UK’s oil and gas sector under Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round. This scale will remove more emissions quickly, keep... Continue Reading →