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(OE) TechnipFMC and Prysmian have signed a collaboration agreement to further accelerate the global development of floating offshore wind to help meet growing demand for renewable electricity. The collaboration agreement brings together the technologies and competencies of these two offshore industry leaders, providing the unique capabilities to pioneer a complete water column solution, from seabed... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) OneSubsea, a company majority-owned by SLB, has installed three pump stations at a field offshore Brazil operated by BRAVA Energia, an oil and gas player formed following the merger of Brazil’s 3R Petroleum and Enauta. The field’s floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit is expected to start production soon. According to the SLB-led... Continue Reading →
(OE) Norwegian offshore supply vessel company DOF Group has concluded the acquisition of Denmark-based Maersk Supply Service, which will be renamed to DOF Denmark. The combined company is expected to become one of the leading offshore service provider with comprehensive scale and a wide range of services across all continents in the offshore energy industries.... Continue Reading →
Wilson Sons, a leader in port and maritime logistics in Brazil, will start building, next year, a new range of three super powerful tugboats with sustainable technology at its shipyard in Guarujá, São Paulo. It plans on renewing and modernizing its fleet of more than 80 tugboats, which operate along the Brazilian coast. The three... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has granted RWE the offshore construction permit for its Thor offshore wind farm, enabling RWE to begin construction at sea in spring 2025. RWE said that good progress is already being made on land, with the laying of cables and the construction of an onshore substation in the municipality... Continue Reading →
Wendy Laursen, Contributing Writer (oedigital.com) Preparing for industrialization, the floating offshore wind industry is tackling its unique mooring and cabling challenges. The idea of keeping floating offshore wind platforms in place using dynamic positioning has been considered. The trouble is: it could take up to 80% of the electricity generated by the turbine to do it.... Continue Reading →
(PN) Recently, Petrobras began drilling a new well in the Buzios Field, in a water depth of 1,939 meters, using the Carolina drillship. The information was made available by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP). The new well was given the technical name 9-BUZ-99D-RJS. The nomenclature beginning with the number 9 indicates that this is a... Continue Reading →
The FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias (Mero 3) began producing oil and gas this Wednesday, October 30, in the Mero field, Libra block, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin. The unit has the capacity to produce up to 180 thousand barrels of oil and compress up to 12 million cubic meters of gas,... Continue Reading →
(OM) The Woods Hole Group says it has three DeepCLiDAR buoy systems ready for deployment to conduct wind resource assessments, metocean and marine environmental measurements. It also reports that additional buoys are under construction. With the Atlantic Wind Lease Sale 11 in the US Gulf of Maine Outer Continental Shelf scheduled for Oct. 29, 2024,... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award to Seaway7, part of the Subsea7 Group, of a substantial1 contract by Ørsted for the transport and installation of the inter-array cables of the Hornsea 3 offshore wind project located in the UK sector of the North Sea. Seaway7’s scope of work covers the transportation and installation (T&I) of... Continue Reading →
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