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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 →
Aug. 11 (Reuters) Nigerian President Bola Tinubu approved a new regulatory and fiscal framework for offshore oil and gas projects, his office said on Tuesday, a move the government says could attract up to $50 billion in investment and revive long-delayed developments. Nigeria has struggled in recent years to attract new upstream oil investment amid... Continue Reading →
July 15 (offshoreWIND.biz) The Floating Axis Wind Turbine (FAWT) consortium of six Japanese companies has installed an experimental low-cost next-generation floating wind turbine in the bay of Iki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The concept aims to make a fully domestic supply chain of offshore wind possible. The demonstration has started as of July 2026 and... Continue Reading →
July 14 (offshoreWIND.biz) The offshore wind sector is now standardizing around 15 MW+ mega-turbines, requiring monopile foundations with diameters stretching up to 15 meters (approx. 49 feet) and steel plate thicknesses exceeding 150 mm to 170 mm (approx. 6″ to 6.7″). For fabricators, the core challenge is clear: how to roll plates of this scale... Continue Reading →
July 10 (offshoreWIND.biz) The 30 MW Éoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) floating offshore wind farm, located off France’s Mediterranean coast, has reached full power, Ocean Winds (OW), the owner and developer of the project, said. With three 10 MW turbines located 16 kilometers off the Occitanie coast and installed on semi-submersible floaters, this... Continue Reading →
June 24 - ASCO, a global logistics, materials management and operations specialist, has signed a Heads of Terms with N.V. Dordt Gateway to establish a strategic joint venture to support the development and operation of the Dordt Marine Support Base in Commewijne, Suriname. The agreement includes the formation of a joint operating company, Dordt Operations... Continue Reading →
June 9 (Reuters) - Norway's parliament on Tuesday ordered the government to review its planned subsidy for the country's first commercial floating offshore wind farm, raising concerns of a full development stop and a wider impact on energy transition projects. A proposal by the opposition Conservative Party seeking financial scrutiny of a 35 billion Norwegian... Continue Reading →
May 30 (cleantechnica.com) Beginning in the early 2000’s, US taxpayers devoted many millions of dollars to support new floating wind turbine technology, enabling many more gigawatts of clean power to be harvested from offshore sites. Too bad all that blood, sweat, and tears went to waste after US President Donald Trump blew up the domestic offshore... Continue Reading →
May 27 (oilprice.com) One of Europe's biggest wind turbine makers, Germany-based Nordex, is calling for stricter EU regulations to exclude non-western equipment from the supply chain of new renewable projects, as the European industry remains concerned about China's market dominance in the clean energy supply chain. "We believe the western-origin principle should therefore apply to... Continue Reading →
May 14 (splash) The Crown Estate has launched a third round of its Supply Chain Accelerator, making an additional £15m ($20.3m) in early‑stage development funding available to support UK offshore wind supply chain businesses and projects. The programme, first established in 2024 with a £50m pool, is now entering its third and final funding round,... Continue Reading →
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