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(Reuters) - Denmark has resumed its review of two of 33 offshore wind farm applications suspended last month over worries of breaching European Union state aid rules, the Energy Agency said on Friday. Denmark, which aims for a fivefold increase in offshore wind power capacity by 2030, has allowed energy companies to submit unsolicited applications... Continue Reading →
Subsea7, Siem Offshore, and Kongsberg Maritime have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly look at optimisation of marine operations for floating wind projects. The main objective of the study is to identify gaps in capabilities of existing marine operation methodologies and equipment, to enable robust and efficient execution of large-scale floating wind developments planned... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7 has reported an order intake of over $7 billion for the full year of 2022, representing the highest order intake since 2013, with a backlog of over $9 billion, said to have resulted in high revenue visibility for 2024 and beyond. In 2022, Subsea 7 reported revenue of $5.1 billion, which is a... Continue Reading →
DOF Subsea has secured a contract extension with Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras for its 106-meter-long diving support vessel (DSV) Skandi Achiever. The new commitment has commenced in direct continuation with the current one and will run until February 2024. It will include remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and diving services. In addition to the newly announced contract on the... Continue Reading →
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, through its subsidiary Vard, has signed a contract with offshore wind vessel operator Edda Wind, for the construction of four Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOV). The first two vessels are expected to be delivered in Q1 2025, the third in Q2 2025, and the fourth in Q1 2026. The contract has a... Continue Reading →
(OE) Energy and telecom cable firm Prysmian Group has secured contracts worth approximately €1.8 billion (currently around $1.9 billion) in total with the Dutch transmission system operator TenneT for the two grid connection projects IJmuiden Ver Alpha and Nederwiek 1 to link two future offshore wind farms located in the Dutch North Sea to the... Continue Reading →
OneSubsea, a company of the SLB group (formerly Schlumberger), made a triple announcement: the signing of new equipment supply contracts for Petrobras, Enauta and PRIO (formerly PetroRio). In the agreement with Petrobras, OneSubsea will deliver 16 wet Christmas trees (ANMs) for the Buzios 10 project, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. OneSubsea also entered into two-phase... Continue Reading →
Houston-based Bleutec Industries announced it has received approval in principle (AIP) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for the designs of its Jones Act compliant offshore wind farm construction solution. Envisioned as an alternative to wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV), Bleutec's "binary marine installation solution" (BMIS) is a spread of DP2 vessels designed in... Continue Reading →
The world’s largest offshore support vessel (OSV) owner and operator Tidewater Inc. is optimistic that the recovery for a continued recovery of the offshore vessel market as demand for oil and gas supplies increases. Tidewater saw rise last year to $647.7 million, an increase of 74.6% compared 2021 thanks to its acquisition of Swire Pacific Offshore.... Continue Reading →
(Zacks)Transocean, Inc. RIG reported an adjusted net loss of 49 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2022. The figure was wider than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 19 cents per share. This underperformance can be attributed to a decline in revenues from contract drilling. Moreover, RIG’s bottom line declined from the... Continue Reading →
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