Offshore Design Engineering Ltd (ODE) has won a contract to deliver Owner’s Engineer support to the pre-FEED stage of the 1.5GW Outer Dowsing offshore wind farm in the Southern North Sea. The Owner’s Engineer contract was awarded to ODE by Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind (ODOW), a joint venture developed by TotalEnergies and Corio Generation, a... Continue Reading →
California Sets Big Offshore Wind Targets
(Reuters) California on Wednesday set ambitious new targets for offshore wind development, saying turbines along its storied coastline would power some 25 million homes by 2050. In a unanimous vote, the five-member California Energy Commission (CEC) adopted a goal of 3,000 to 5,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind by 2030 and 25,000 MW by 2045, the agency... Continue Reading →
Scotland opens offshore wind leasing round to decarbonize North Sea oil and gas
Scotland’s new offshore wind leasing round aiming to decarbonise the North Sea oil and gas sector and position offshore wind as a primary feature of the energy transition has launched today, with plans to deliver the results in March next year. Following last year’s consultations, Crown Estate Scotland, the body which manages seabed leasing for offshore... Continue Reading →
Wood Thilsted Wins Offshore Wind Engineering Work in U.S.
(OE) Engineering consultancy Wood Thilsted has been appointed as a detailed design engineer for US Wind’s MarWin project, the company’s first offshore wind project to be constructed off the coast of Maryland, U.S.. Apart from being responsible for the delivery of the detailed foundation design for MarWin, Wood Thilsted will also be supporting the development... Continue Reading →
AKOFS Offshore to deploy Hydramec’s LARS for subsea activities in Brazil
AKOFS Offshore has ordered a bespoke active heave compensated (AHC) launch and recovery system (LARS) from Hydramec and Scantrol to be used for subsea basket deployment. Working directly alongside AKOFS for the first time, Hydramec and Scantrol have teamed up to deliver the LARS which required some design changes to suit a new subsea basket... Continue Reading →
Analysis: U.S. renewables investors see Senate bill sparking gold rush
(Reuters) - For the first time, investors seeking to pour cash into U.S. clean energy projects can count on at least a decade of generous federal subsidies, offering them long-sought confidence in the staying power of the world’s third biggest renewables market. Tax credits for wind and solar projects have underpinned explosive growth in U.S.... Continue Reading →
Dutch company develops offshore wind-powered hydrogen production platform
The Netherlands-based engineering company Iv-Offshore & Energy has developed a platform that uses offshore wind energy to produce 85 kilotonnes of hydrogen per year. With a capacity of 500 MW, the platform can produce enough green hydrogen in a single day to power more than 300,000 hydrogen cars to drive at least 100 kilometres, the... Continue Reading →
Macquarie targets North Sea as the green energy hub of Europe
(EV) Macquarie Group is betting the North Sea – engine of the UK’s once-booming oil and gas industry – can be transformed into the green energy hub of Europe. The Australian bank, one of the top energy-infrastructure investors, has been acquiring offshore wind farms, pipelines and networks that will be in prime position to produce, carry... Continue Reading →
SBM Orders Seventh Fast4Ward Hull
Dutch FPSO leasing specialist SBM Offshore has ordered its latest Fast4Ward multi-purpose floater hull as it marked a new record level order book at $31.1 billion. The latest Fast4Ward floating production unit (FPU) is expected to be delivered in 2024, the firm said yesterday in its half year earnings. It also said it could have... Continue Reading →
Wood to Deliver Design for Salamander Floating Wind Project in Scotland
Engineering firm Wood said it has been awarded the Principal Designer and Pre-FEED scope for Salamander, the 100MW floating wind farm development located 35km off Peterhead in the East Coast of Scotland. The Salamander project, a joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Ørsted and Subsea 7, will contribute toward achieving the UK government’s target of... Continue Reading →
