GustoMSC Unveils New Jacking Technology for Offshore Wind Vessels

June 2 (OE) GustoMSC, NOV’s offshore design and engineering business, has developed a new asymmetrical rack-and-pinion technology designed to increase the jacking capacity of offshore wind installation vessels without increasing vessel size, weight or system complexity. The patent-pending asymmetrical rack-and-pinion (ASYM R&P) technology builds on the company’s existing rack-and-pinion jacking systems and is designed to... Continue Reading →

June 2, 2026 0

The Global Floating Wind Industry Flexes Its Muscles (Including California, Too)

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 31, 2026 0

Chinese turbine giant, Ming Yang, joins Norwegian Offshore Wind network

May 30 (splash) Chinese turbine manufacturer Ming Yang Europe has joined Norwegian Offshore Wind, underscoring its commitment to building deep, long-term partnerships with the European offshore wind community, particularly with Norway, which pioneered floating offshore wind technology. Norwegian Offshore Wind unites around 300 member companies across the offshore wind value chain. Norway has set a... Continue Reading →

May 31, 2026 0

SBM Offshore signed contracts for Petrobras’ FPSOs SEAP-I and SEAP-II

May 29, 2026 SBM Offshore announces that it has been awarded contracts by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for two FPSO projects located in the Sergipe-Alagoas basin, located in the northeastern part of Brazil. Under these contracts, SBM Offshore will design, build and operate FPSOs SEAP-I and SEAP-II. The consortia led by Petrobras will own the... Continue Reading →

May 29, 2026 0

Oceanic Wind, Ming Yang Partner on Canadian Offshore Wind Project

May 29 (OE) Oceanic Wind Energy and Ming Yang Smart Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to evaluate a strategic investment partnership for the development of an offshore wind project in the Hecate Strait off the northwest coast of British Columbia. The project is being advanced by Coast Tsimshian Enterprises (CTE) and Oceanic... Continue Reading →

May 29, 2026 0

IMCA issued diver safety warning as global subsea decommissioning accelerates

May 29 - New guidance aims to reduce diver risk as ageing offshore infrastructure drives increasingly complex dismantlement operations The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has published new industry guidance designed to improve safety during subsea decommissioning and dismantlement projects, warning that ageing offshore infrastructure, incomplete historical records and changing site conditions are creating an... Continue Reading →

May 29, 2026 0

French firm, Vallourec, enters deal for bioenergy with CCS projects in Brazil

May 28 (offshore-energt.biz) French tubular solutions provider Vallourec and Syngular Solutions, a Brazilian engineering and consulting company specialized in bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on carbon capture and geological storage initiatives in Brazil. The MoU establishes a... Continue Reading →

May 28, 2026 0

Floating Solar Could Be a Lifeline for Land-Scarce Nations Facing Energy Crises

May 28 (oilprice.com) Floating solar farms could be significantly more efficient than solar farms on land thanks to the natural cooling effects of seawater, according to new findings from a comparative study conducted by researchers from the National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) in Taiwan. The floating solar panels used in the study produced 12... Continue Reading →

May 28, 2026 0

TouchWind Installs Floating Wind Prototype in Dutch Waters

May 28 (OE) TouchWind has installed its floating wind turbine prototype at Fieldlab Green Economy Westvoorne in the Netherlands, moving the POWER project into the in-water testing phase. The POWER project, short for ‘POsitive Wake Effects of turbines with tilted Rotors’, is studying how turbines with tilted rotors can deflect wakes and access higher-energy wind... Continue Reading →

May 28, 2026 0

Nordex Pushes EU to Ban Chinese Wind Turbines From European Grids

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 →

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Category: Technology

GustoMSC Unveils New Jacking Technology for Offshore Wind Vessels

The Global Floating Wind Industry Flexes Its Muscles (Including California, Too)

Chinese turbine giant, Ming Yang, joins Norwegian Offshore Wind network

SBM Offshore signed contracts for Petrobras’ FPSOs SEAP-I and SEAP-II

Oceanic Wind, Ming Yang Partner on Canadian Offshore Wind Project

IMCA issued diver safety warning as global subsea decommissioning accelerates

French firm, Vallourec, enters deal for bioenergy with CCS projects in Brazil

Floating Solar Could Be a Lifeline for Land-Scarce Nations Facing Energy Crises

TouchWind Installs Floating Wind Prototype in Dutch Waters

Nordex Pushes EU to Ban Chinese Wind Turbines From European Grids

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