Aquaterra Energy and Seawind Ocean Technology have signed an agreement for the development of what the companies say will be the world’s largest floating offshore wind and green hydrogen production project in Italy. The project, named HyMed, is currently in its first phase of permitting, with the grid connection and the environmental impact assessments well... Continue Reading →
Lhyfe Launches World First Offshore Hydrogen Pilot
France-based clean hydrogen producer Lhyfe has launched the world’s first offshore renewable green hydrogen production demonstrator. The pilot was launched yesterday (Septmeber 22) in Saint-Nazaire, France, which will now begin an 18-month wind-powered pilot, as part its drive towards large-scale carbon reduction. It involves Lhyfe's new Sealhyfe 400 kg/day (1MW equivalent) green hydrogen producing electrolyser... Continue Reading →
Radix wins $9.5 million contract with Petrobras for well, subsea engineering solutions
(WO) Radix Engineering and Software closed a R$49 million (approx. $9.5 million) contract with Petrobras to develop and maintain scientific software focused on Well Engineering and Subsea Engineering. Radix will develop software for two lots of subsea and one lot of wells, marking its return to large contracts with Petrobras. The partnership will last for... Continue Reading →
First commercial-scale UMACK anchor hits seabed off Portugal ahead of wave device installation
CorPower Ocean, Maersk Supply Service, and Dieseko have installed the first commercial-scale UMACK anchor to support the HiWave-5 wave energy demonstration project. The novel anchor has been installed 4 kilometers off the coast of Aguçadoura, in northern Portugal, where it will be used to anchor the CorPower C4 wave energy converter, as part of the company’s... Continue Reading →
Baker Hughes, Mocean Energy, Verlume Ink MOU
Baker Hughes, Mocean Energy and Verlume have signed a triparty memorandum of understanding (MoU) to identify and discuss potential opportunities for collaboration on integrated wave energy and subsea energy storage solutions for the emerging subsea clean energy market.The MoU will explore the opportunities for integrated wave energy, energy storage and power delivery solutions to facilitate... Continue Reading →
Vertical Axis Turbines ‘Dramatically’ Increase Power Density at Offshore Wind Farms – White Paper
(OW) Sweden-headquartered SeaTwirl has published a white paper that outlines the possibility of ‘dramatically’ increasing the power density on offshore wind farms by placing the company’s vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT) closer together. The white paper, which was commissioned by SeaTwirl from Dr. Pablo Ouro, a researcher at the University of Manchester, investigated different spacing configurations... Continue Reading →
World’s largest offshore wind farm first to use low-carbon copper for HVDC cables
NKT is set to produce the HVDC power cables for the Dogger Bank C offshore wind project using low-carbon copper, representing the world’s first. The initiative is expected to reduce the carbon footprint of the cables by more than 35 per cent. The low-carbon copper cathodes are sourced from the Boliden Aitik mine in Northern... Continue Reading →
Damen Working on New Vessel Class to Support Growing Floating Wind Industry
Dutch firm Damen Shipyards said Tuesday it was working to develop a new class of vessel that will be capable of supporting the growing floating wind industry. Damen has cited forecasts which indicate that by 2050 over 200GW or around 13,500 units of new floating offshore wind turbines will be in operation, and these turbines... Continue Reading →
Equinor Releases “Energy Perpectives 2022”
Energy Perspectives 2022: Long-term development in the world’s energy markets and how politics, technologies, companies, and consumers can influence it, is an overarching theme of the energy transition. (OE) With inflation raging, geopolitical disruption and resultant energy security concerts, and continued logistics woes, the table is set for Equinor to deliver its insights on energy courtesy... Continue Reading →
Siem Helix 2 stays with Petrobras for another two years
Helix Energy Solutions has secured another extension of its well intervention charter and services contracts with Petrobras for the well intervention vessel Siem Helix 2. The two-year extension directly follows Helix’s current contracts with Petrobras and is scheduled to conclude in December 2024. The initial four-year contract between the two companies for the vessel was extended by one... Continue Reading →