(OE) Marco Polo Marine, a Singapore-listed offshore vessel company, is looking to enter the Japanese offshore wind market and has signed a memorandum of understanding with "K" Line Wind Service in that regard. Both parties, according to Marco Polo Marine, want to own and run suitable offshore support vessels that will serve customers in the... Continue Reading →
Saipem buying drillship from Samsung Heavy as market demand ‘significantly exceeds’ supply
(OET) Italian oilfield services provider Saipem has decided to buy the Santorini ultra-deepwater drillship from South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries to strengthen its offshore drilling fleet amid the growing demand in the market. The Santorini drillship was initially ordered from Samsung Heavy by Ocean Rig and it was slated for delivery in the second quarter of 2017. Come... Continue Reading →
Geoview completes geophysical survey for Equinor’s floating wind project offshore South Korea
South Korea’s ocean exploration company, Geoview, has completed the marine geophysical survey for Equinor’s Firefly floating offshore wind farm in Ulsan. In the first half of 2022, Geoview won an ocean exploration project from Equinor for the first time as a Korean company. Geoview specializes in marine surveys such as seabed topography mapping, geophysical surveys,... Continue Reading →
California’s coming offshore wind boom faces big engineering hurdles – long read
(MTR) This week, dozens of companies are expected to compete for the right to lease the first commercial wind power sites off the coast of California in a federal online auction that could kick-start the state’s next clean energy boom. Collectively, the winners will pay at least tens of millions of dollars for exclusive rights to submit... Continue Reading →
Offshore Wind: CrossWind Taps KBR for Energy Storage Project
KBR has won a contract to provide engineering services for an offshore energy storage project for CrossWind, a joint venture (JV) between Shell and Dutch utility company, Eneco. KBR will perform a front-end engineering design of the baseload power hub (BLPH) for the Hollandse Kust (north) wind farm located offshore the Netherlands. "KBR and Shell... Continue Reading →
Full-scale 5-MW floating “pyramid” wind turbine will be put to the test
(RN) Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting to build a full-scale demonstrator of its innovative pyramid-shaped floating wind turbine, which reduces materials and weight by more than 30%, and promises... Continue Reading →
Stranded Newbuild Drillships Soon to be History
(OE) Hans Jacob Bassoe, Contributor The recovering deepwater drilling market has encouraged drilling contractors to expand their fleet, and companies are now starting to purchase stranded assets in shipyards. A joint venture that includes Transocean recently announced the purchase of the stranded 7th Generation drillship West Aquila, while Stena Drilling still has its option to acquire... Continue Reading →
SSE Renewables Says 75% of Jacket Foundations Installed at Seagreen Wind Farm
SSE Renewables has informed that 75% of the jacket foundation substructures have been installed at the Seagreen offshore wind farm site. SSE Renewables is developing the wind farm in partnership with the French firm TotalEnergies. "We’re celebrating a new milestone at Seagreen, our joint venture wind farm project with TotalEnergies. 75% of the jacket foundation... Continue Reading →
Yinson, Azule Energy in Angola FPSO Deal
Malaysian FPSO leasing company Yinson has agreed to start preliminary activities for the provision of an FPSO for Eni, BP JV in Angola, called Azule Energy. Under the agreement with Azule Energy, Yinson will kick off preliminary activities for the provision, operation, and maintenance of a floating, production, storage, and offloading asset for the Agogo... Continue Reading →
Petrobras to relaunch tender to contract P-81 FPSO (Sergipe-Alagoas), this time in a charter mode
The director of production development at Petrobras, João Henrique Rittershaussen, declared that the tender for contracting the P-81, foreseen for the Sergipe Aguas Profundas project (SEAP 1), will be launched in the coming months. This time, the bidding will gain a new format compared to the previous process and will be carried out under the... Continue Reading →