(OE) U.S.-based maritime logistics and offshore services firm Crowley on Wednesday announced a new investment in Tugdock. Tugdock has developed "the world’s first road-transportable floating dry dock" known as the Tugdock Submersible Platform (TSP), to help advance offshore wind energy in the U.S. Crowley and Tugdock will explore the potential use of the platforms in... Continue Reading →
Dwindling reserves prompt Colombia to study need for new oil, gas exploration contracts
(Bloomberg) – Colombia is studying the need for more exploration contracts after a report showed oil and gas reserves dropping, according to a senior minister. The government wants to lead a transition away from fossil fuels while limiting any negative impact on the economy, Trade Minister German Umaña said Thursday in a phone interview. “We’ll... Continue Reading →
Ocean Ventus Launches Low-Steel Wind Floater
Ocean Ventus has launched a low-cost, low-steel floating wind solution which has received Approval in Principle from DNV. It has a tubular design, and its main steel weight is approximately 3,000t for a 15MW turbine. Offshore wind targets imply an eight-fold increase in installed capacity to 2030, with 32 GW of floating wind expected to... Continue Reading →
Petrobras Financial Performance in 1Q23 – Message from CEO
Dear shareholders and investors, I am very proud to share with you the first quarterly results of Petrobras under our management. Since I became CEO, in January, I have been working so that Petrobras can become more efficient, financially healthy and inclusive, where people are the focus of decisions and the top priority. If today... Continue Reading →
MODEC to Deliver Highly Complex FPSO for Equinor’s $9B Project Offshore Brazil
(OE) Japanese FPSO supplier MODEC has won a contract with Equinor to supply an FPSO vessel for the BM-C-33 block of the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. The order comes just days after Equinor and its partners Repsol Sinopec Brasil, and Petrobras took the $9 billion investment decision to develop the BM-C-33 project in Brazil. Located in the... Continue Reading →
North Sea Renewables Grid Project to Provide Clean Power to Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms
(OE) Cerulean Winds plans to build an offshore integrated green power and transmission system, powered by floating wind, that North Sea oil and gas platforms will plug into for clean power, under the project called the North Sea Renewables Grid (NSRG), Cerulean and partner Frontier Power International will develop three 333km2 sites of hundreds of floating... Continue Reading →
‘Hydrogen Hubs’ to the Fore
Barry Parker, Contributor (OE) The path to decarbonization is defined by partnership and fueled by government funding. This month we examine the players, partnerships, and evolution of Hydrogen Hubs in the Gulf of Mexico. The Green Shipping Challenge, organized by the United States and Norway at COP 27 held in late 2022, brought about dozens of... Continue Reading →
MISC reveals ‘world’s first’ future-proof newbuild FPSO sporting mega-module topsides
Malaysia’s shipping giant MISC Berhad (MISC), an owner and operator of offshore floating and energy-related maritime solutions and services, has unveiled – what it deems to be – the world’s first future-ready newbuild floating production storage and offloading (NBFPSO) vessel at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. MISC reported on Tuesday, 2 May 2023,... Continue Reading →
€7.5 billion Dutch fund may favor Pecem’s green hydrogen hub
(epbr) The Dutch government released the Climate Fund project for 2024, which foresees 28.1 billion euros for climate spending in the country until 2030. Of this total, 7.5 billion euros will be used to develop the green hydrogen industry, including 300 million euros to import this energy source – which could favor green hydrogen projects... Continue Reading →
Partnership Launched to Boost Efficiency and Lower Emissions from FPSOs
(OE) Oilfield services firm SLB, Rockwell Automation, Sensia, and Cognite on Monday announced a collaboration that they say will "accelerate the evolution" of the offshore industry’s floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facilities. According to a press statement issued by SLB, until recently known as Schlumberger, digital capabilities developed by the four-company coalition will improve... Continue Reading →