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Danish offshore vessel company Maersk Supply Service has installed six mooring lines and six anchors for the DemoSATH floating wind project at the BIMEP open sea test site in the Biscay Bay off the coast of Armintza, Spain. SATH Technology is based on a concrete platform concept with a plug-and-play Single Point Mooring, the same... Continue Reading →
French offshore vessel operator Bourbon has won a contract to support the construction of the Eolmed project, a recently sanctioned pilot floating wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore France. The wind farm, owned by Qair, TotalEnergies, and BW Ideol, will consist of three floaters, each fitted with 10 MW turbines. This 30 MW project is located... Continue Reading →
BW Ideol and Tohoku Electric Power have initiated feasibility studies for a joint development of a commercial-scale floating offshore wind farm offshore Kuji City in Japan’s Iwate prefecture. The development will feature BW Ideol’s Damping Pool technology. The two companies will pursue early commercialization of cost-competitive floating offshore wind power in Japan through this venture,... Continue Reading →
French oil major TotalEnergies said Monday it had launched a worldwide drone-based emissions detection and quantification campaign across all its upstream oil & gas operated sites, to identify, quantify, and reduce methane emissions linked to its operations. The campaign uses AUSEA technology developed by TotalEnergies, the French National Research Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University of... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Norway unveiled plans on Wednesday for a major expansion in offshore wind energy by 2040, aiming to turn a country that has built its wealth on oil and gas into an exporter of renewable electricity. The centre-left government, which has come under fire from environmentalists for continuing to support the oil and gas... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Siemens Energy (ENR1n.DE) warned on Wednesday sales and margins this year would be at the low end of its forecast range due to worsening problems at wind turbine division Siemens Gamesa (SGREN.MC), which has been hit hard by supply chain disruptions. Shares in the company, which was spun off from Siemens (SIEGn.DE) in 2020, fell as much as... Continue Reading →
French offshore seismic data services company CGG said Wednesday that it had recently signed an expanded five-year licensing agreement with the Brazilian oil company Petrobras for Geovation seismic processing and imaging software. CGG said the deal would give Petrobras geoscientists access to advanced technology innovations, including full-waveform inversion (FWI), and significantly enhance their imaging capabilities.... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies, the French oil major with growing renewables aspirations, on Tuesday confirmed the start of the construction of the 30MW Eolmed floating wind project in the Mediterranean Sea, off France. The project, in which TotalEnergies has a 20% stake, is operated by Qair. The news comes days after BW Ideol, another partner in the project, said... Continue Reading →
Strohm, the developer of Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with French renewable hydrogen supplier Lhyfe, to collaborate on the transportation solution for hydrogen produced from a floating wind turbine to be integrated with a hydrogen production system. The partners said that they would collaborate on solutions for hydrogen transport, both onshore... Continue Reading →
A new way of thinking about technology and doing business with service providers has enabled Petrobras to increase the efficiency and rate of penetration of its drill bits, a Petrobras official said at OTC on Monday. Along the way, Petrobras official Adriano Gouveia Lima Gomes dos Passos said that his company worked with its suppliers to... Continue Reading →
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