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Jun 10, 2020 Ocyan offers the oil and gas sector a new paradigm for drilling in water depths below 500 meters using a drillship in dynamic positioning, without the use of anchoring. The novelty was achieved for the first time last month with the Norbe VIII rig, in the Albacora field, in the Campos Basin... Continue Reading →
Company uses new technologies to reinforce its safety culture Innovation has been an important ally for Wilson Sons in the success of its Health, Safety, and the Environment (HSE) programme. With a fleet of 80 tugboats, the largest in Brazil, the Company has been able to reduce the rate of lost- time accidents by more... Continue Reading →
Capital expenditure (CAPEX) on offshore wind is expected to surpass upstream oil & gas spending in Europe in 2022, according to Rystad Energy. The oil market collapse caused by the Covid-19 pandemic is set to delay several oil and gas developments in Western Europe, putting capital expenditure in the offshore sector on a continued downwards... Continue Reading →
Oilfield services company Wood has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2030. Wood said on Friday that this science-based target was focused on reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. This absolute reduction target is set using 2019 figures as a baseline which currently stands at 179,587... Continue Reading →
Brazilian geoscience services company OceanPact has chosen Sonardyne deep water positioning technology to support its research operations across the region. The company has installed Ranger 2 Ultra-Short Baseline (USBL) systems on board its research vessels Seward Johnson and Austral Abrolhos. Continue reading
May 26, 2020 Dutch SBM Offshore achieved two important advances in the work of the FPSO Mero 2, which will be named Sepetiba. Even with the challenges imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, the company completed the placement of the keel of the ship's hull, considered the initial milestone in the construction of any vessel. In... Continue Reading →
Italian provider of oilfield and renewable energy services Saipem has signed a two-year frame agreement with Norway's Equinor covering offshore engineering services worldwide. Per Saipem's statement on Tuesday, The frame agreement covers feasibility and conceptual studies, FEED, detailed engineering, and related follow-on and support for R&D activities, as well as assistance to Equinor for its... Continue Reading →
Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa has unveiled a new SG 14-222 DD offshore Direct Drive wind turbine with 14-megawatt (MW) capacity. The capacity can reach up to 15 MW using the company’s Power Boost function, a 222-meter diameter rotor, 108-meter long blades, and a 39,000 m2 swept area. Continue reading
SBM Offshore, the Netherlands-based FPSO supplier, has shared a video of its Liza Unity FPSO Hull going into the dry dock in Singapore. The hull was ordered on speculation in 2017 as the first of what are now five hulls being built as part of SBM Offshore's Fast4Ward standardized-FPSO-hull program. ExxonMobil then came out as... Continue Reading →
The enormous potential that offshore wind energy may be able to offer has been making headlines around the world. In late 2019 the Norwegian energy giant Equinor confirmed that its massive investment in the 88 MW Hywind Tampen Offshore Floating Wind (OFW) farm was going ahead. A few days later the International Energy Agency, IEA,... Continue Reading →
