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Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill has secured a contract with Brazil’s oil and gas giant Petrobras for work in the Búzios field offshore Brazil, making it the third rig contract for Seadrill on the field. The contract was awarded to the West Jupiter drillship and it is for a firm term of 1,040 days with the start expected... Continue Reading →
Petrobras concluded the drilling of the pioneer oil exploratory well in block ES-M-669, in the pre-salt of the Espírito Santo Basin. Named Monai, the project broke the record for the deepest well ever drilled in Brazil, at around 7,700 meters. Just by way of comparison, this distance is equivalent to 1.3 times the height of... Continue Reading →
(OE) Offshore wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa said Friday that its giant 14MW SG 14-222 DD offshore wind turbine prototype had started delivering power to the grid. The prototype has been installed in Østerild, Denmark. "We are excited to announce that our SG 14-222 DD prototype is now producing power to the grid! What an... Continue Reading →
Technip Energies said Thursday it had received the acceptance of its basis of the design of its INO12TM floating offshore wind concept from classification society DNV. The company said that DNV's acceptance marked important progress towards the Approval in Principle (AiP) of the floater which is designed to accommodate a 12MW wind turbine. "Following an... Continue Reading →
TMC Compressors, a Norwegian supplier of compressed air systems for marine and offshore use, has been contracted to supply a large marine compressed air system for Petrobras’ Mero 3 floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which will operate offshore Brazil. TMC Compressors reported on Wednesday that the marine compressed air system for the Mero 3 FPSO (Marechal... Continue Reading →
After being very much on the margins of the offshore wind industry, floating offshore wind now appears to be ready to hit the mainstream. With gigawatt scale developments already on the horizon, what will the infrastructure needed to build and support them look like? (OE) Over the past 12 months, the floating offshore wind sector... Continue Reading →
Aberdeen-based offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has revealed an agreement with South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries related to an option to buy a newbuild drillship. Stena Drilling informed on Tuesday it had entered into a purchase option agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries for a drillship, giving Stena “the possibility to offer the market a state of... Continue Reading →
Offshore wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has signed a collaboration agreement with Strohm, a company specializing in Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP) construction. The duo said Tuesday it planned to develop hydrogen transfer solutions that improve the decentralized green hydrogen concept, where green hydrogen is generated in each wind turbine generator and transported to shore... Continue Reading →
OF Subsea’s construction support vessel (CSV) Skandi Neptune has completed the first stage of the ocean bottom node (OBN) 4D seismic campaign on the Jubarte field in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. The vessel recently arrived in Rio de Janeiro after this first stage to undergo scheduled maintenance. The second phase of the project is set to... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Top energy executives this week urged a more cautious transition of energy policy away from oil and gas, but a U.S. Energy Department official said the industry has a moral obligation to address climate change and the economic opportunity it represents. Executives from Saudi Aramco, Exxon Mobil and Chevron, speaking at the World... Continue Reading →
