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 →
Brazil: Equinor Brings Peregrino Offshore Field Back Online
(OE) Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has restarted oil production from the Peregrino offshore field after it was suspended in April 2020. The field was brought back online on June 16, 2022. Production was shut down in April 2020 and Equinor has since thenexecuted a major program of maintenance, upgrades, and repairs on the Floating... Continue Reading →
Petrobras carrying out assessment of recent oil discovery
Brazilian Petrobras has completed the drilling of a wildcat well, located in the pre-salt Campos Basin offshore Brazil, after finding an oil accumulation. The work is now being done to establish the full potential of this play. At the beginning of April 2022, Petrobras revealed that it had found a new oil accuCampos mulation in a wildcat well... Continue Reading →
Prysmian’s Subsea Power Cables to Connect Canary Islands, Ceuta to Spanish Mainland
Prysmian, the Italian energy and telecom cable systems provider, has won two contracts worth approximately €250 million (around $253,3 million) by Red Eléctrica de España, S.A.U., the transmission system operator of the Spanish power grid. The contracts are for the development of two projects: a submarine power interconnection between the islands of Tenerife and La... Continue Reading →
Prysmian secures first construction permits for Massachusetts subsea cable factory
Prysmian has received the first layer of approval of the construction permits for the development of its new subsea cable plant in Brayton Point, Massachusetts, which will service the U.S. offshore wind sector. Construction is planned to start in the summer of 2023 and to take two years. With a $200 million investment, Prysmian will... Continue Reading →
Oil giant Brazil works to open up vast offshore wind potential
(Upstream) Brazil’s vast potential for offshore wind generation and the challenges associated with implementing this new industry in a country that is still investing a lot of money in oil and natural gas projects were among the hot topics discussed in Upstream’s latest digital conference. With more than 130 gigawatts of future projects under environmental... Continue Reading →
Major subsea Christmas trees contracts in the third quarter will be led by Brazil projects
The world market for the supply of underwater Christmas trees should have Brazil as the main stage during this third quarter. In a survey carried out by Westwood Energy, the main contracts of the type expected for the period between July and September should include Shell's Gato do Mato projects in the Santos basin; Maromba,... Continue Reading →
Petrobras Awards 4-year Contract for Offshore Flotel
Brazilian oil company Petrobras has awarded a 4-year contract to CIMC and OOS International for the OOS Tiradentes semi-submersible accommodation rig. Under the contract, the accommodation rig will be used to provide safety and maintenance support offshore of Brazil from April 2023 onwards. The four-year contract award follows on from two long-term contracts previously awarded by Petrobras in 2018... Continue Reading →
Field development offshore Brazil driving deepwater rig activity
(OM) Two key Equinor field development projects offshore Brazil are driving deepwater rig contracting activity, according to Evercore ISI’s latest Offshore Rig Market Snapshot. Recently,Valaris announced that it will be reactivating the DS-17 for a new 540-day contract with Equinor for offshore Brazil. The $327-million contract value includes $86 million in upfront reimbursements for mobilization, reactivation,... Continue Reading →
Technip Energies, X1 Wind, Partners to Deliver Important Floating Wind Project
The European Commission has chosen Technip Energies, X1 Wind, and a consortium of ten international entities, to deliver the NextFloat project, a program aimed at accelerating industrial-scale floating wind. NextFloat project's main objectives are to demonstrate a competitive, sustainable, and integrated floating offshore wind solution optimized for deep waters and to accelerate the industrial-scale deployment... Continue Reading →