Sept. 21 (offshoreWIND.biz) Gazelle Wind Power has developed and tested a new floating offshore wind platform designed to support 18 MW turbines and beyond in extreme offshore conditions, with the company’s preliminary cost assessment indicating 44 per cent lower CAPEX and 52 per cent lower LCOE than the benchmark semi-submersible designs used in the study.... Continue Reading →
All 65 Turbines Installed at US Revolution Wind Offshore Wind Farm
Sept. 21 (OE) The 704 MW Revolution Wind offshore wind project has completed installation of all 65 turbines, with full energization expected by the end of 2026. The project, a 50-50 joint venture between Global Infrastructure Partners' Skyborn Renewables and Ørsted, began delivering electricity to the New England grid on March 14. Revolution Wind, located... Continue Reading →
Sumitomo joins Albatross to commercialise floating axis wind turbines
Sept. 11 (splash247.com) Sumitomo Heavy Industries and Albatross Technology have formed a capital and business alliance to speed up the development of floating axis wind turbines (FAWTs), with the partners preparing to move from small-scale testing to a 2MW-class offshore demonstrator. The cooperation will cover turbine design, production, installation, and maintenance, and the partners will... Continue Reading →
Scotland Finances Plans to Produce Floating Offshore Wind Foundations at Port of Ardersier
Sept. 10 (offshoreWIND.biz) Scotland's Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has approved more than GBP 778,000 in Scottish Government funding for plans to produce floating offshore wind foundations at Port of Ardersier. The funding will support an 18-month front-end engineering design (FEED) study led by the France based company BW Ideol, a subsidiary of BW Ideol... Continue Reading →
California sues Trump administration over offshore wind lease cancelation
Aug 28 (Reuters) - California on Friday sued the Trump administration and an offshore wind developer over a deal that canceled a planned project off the state's Central Coast in exchange for a $120 million federal reimbursement and a commitment to invest in fossil fuel projects. California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the lawsuit in... Continue Reading →
BW Ideol’s Eight-Year-Old Floatgen Turbine Produces 40 GWh
Aug. 28 (offshoreWIND.biz) BW Ideol’s 2 MW Floatgen floating wind turbine has been in operation for eight years at the SEM-REV offshore test site off Le Croisic, France, with cumulative electricity production now exceeding 40 GWh. The turbine, installed on BW Ideol’s concrete Damping Pool floating foundation, entered operation in 2018 and has recorded average... Continue Reading →
Seatrium, Petrobras eye potential natural gas collaboration to meet growing Asian demand
Aug. 27(businesstimes.com.sg) Brazilian oil giant Petrobras and offshore and marine player Seatrium are discussing a potential tie-up to explore offshore solutions in natural gas, said Magda Chambriard and Chris Ong, the respective CEOs of Petrobras and Seatrium. They were speaking at a media briefing following the christening ceremony for two floating production storage and offloading... Continue Reading →
Buzios sets new Natural Gas export record
Aug. 26 (PN) -The Buzios field, located in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, set a new record for natural gas exports in July. During that period, the asset reached an average of 10.8 million cubic meters per day, underscoring the expansion of production destined for the Brazilian market and the operational reliability of... Continue Reading →
Seatrium views Brazil as an offshore wind market opportunity but awaits rules to unlock projects
Aug. 13 (Estadao) Seatrium, a marine engineering multinational expanding its global offshore wind operations, sees Brazil as a market ripe for development and hopes to leverage its local infrastructure to manufacture substations and vessels dedicated to the sector. However, the company is making any planning contingent on the maturation of the legal framework. It has... Continue Reading →
Dutch Project Produces First Green Hydrogen On North Sea Gas Platform
Aug. 11 (Forbes) An innovative pilot project in the Netherlands - focused on energy transition solutions - has reached a milestone moment of producing its first batch of green hydrogen on an active natural gas platform in the North Sea. The project - PosHYdon - led by a consortium of partners with support of the Dutch Ministry... Continue Reading →