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(OE) Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. completed the purchase on the market of 89,500 shares of common stock of MODEC, Inc. and along with the 10,162,300 shares already acquired in June 2023, MOL now holds a 15% stake in MODEC and will make it an equity-method affiliate. MODEC is a leading company in the offshore oil... Continue Reading →
Wendy Laursen, Contributing Writer (OE) The intermittency of offshore wind power is both a challenge and an opportunity for green hydrogen production. There will be a new generation of platforms taking up space in offshore wind farms as hydrogen production is used to help balance power supply and demand. Green hydrogen could be produced at... Continue Reading →
(OE) British startup DRIFT Energy has closed a seed funding round for making green energy at sea using hi-tech sailing vessels. Led by Octopus Ventures, one of the largest and most active venture capital investors in the UK and Europe, and with support from Blue Action Accelerator, the company has secured £4.65 million ($6 million),... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) DOF Subsea has secured a contract extension for its high-end subsea vessel that will keep the vessel busy until mid-2028. The new commitment for DOF’s Skandi Africa will run until May 2028 and will commence in direct continuation with the current commitment, which runs until February 2025. According to the company, the high-end subsea vessel... Continue Reading →
(TN) OceanPact received the award for the third most honored company in Latin America, in the small cap category in the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical sector, in the traditional survey conducted by Institutional Investor Research, which consulted around 1,200 investors and market analysts. OceanPact's “Investor Day” was considered the best in this same category.... Continue Reading →
Philip Lewis, Contributor, Director Research at Intelatus Global Partners. (OE) Whereas the foundations of commercial offshore wind development are found in Europe (and Europe will remain the largest overall regional market for offshore wind activity in the coming decade), the rapid development of the large East Asia and Pacific region provides both opportunities and some challenges... Continue Reading →
(PN) Equinor, in partnership with CBO and Wärtsilä, has completed the hybridization of the CBO Wiser, a PSV (Platform Supply Vessel) type vessel. The vessel now has a battery system and uses both diesel and electric power, becoming the first of its kind in Brazil to operate in this way. With this innovation, a reduction... Continue Reading →
(OE) TDI-Brooks, a U.S.-based marine services company specializing in geotechnical and offshore survey projects, has completed a third-party geotechnical coring project for Geohidra in the Southern Gulf of Mexico. This operation took place aboard the MV Laguna Azule. During the campaign, TDI-Brooks conducted a total of 32 Cone Penetration Tests (CPTs) using their Neptune 3000... Continue Reading →
(OE) Petrobras has awarded contracts to Techdof, a joint venture between DOF Subsea and TechnipFMC, for two of its pipelay support vessel (PLSVs). Petrobras extended the existing contract for PLSV Skandi Açu to mid-2026. This extension will be followed by the new three-year contract ending mid-2029, DOF informed. Skandi Açu is designed to achieve a... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) State-run oil firm Petrobras has begun studies for the implementation of a new oil platform in Brazil's Buzios field, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Each Buzios platform has an average cost of $3.5 billion, said a source, adding that the one under study would be a FPSO (floating production storage... Continue Reading →
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