(PN) Baker Hughes announced a new and important company contract in Brazil. The company will provide CO2 compression solutions for the FPSO P-80, P-82 and P-83, which will be operated by Petrobras in the Búzios field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. There will be six compression trains, powered by gas turbines, designed to reinject more... Continue Reading →
PGS issues first results from Colombia Pacific reprocessing project
(OM) PGS has released the first data from its new Pacific MegaProject covering prospective areas across much of Colombia's offshore Tumaco and San Juan basins. The company has reprocessed all available data in the target area to produce a single unified and rejuvenated MegaProject dataset. This is said to provide new insights into potential petroleum system... Continue Reading →
Remazel Engineering secures contract for mooring connecting system
(OM) Remazel Engineering, with work and support from Remazel Asia, has been awarded a contract for the design and manufacturing of a permanent mooring connecting system for floating offshore wind and fish farm integration application by the Chinese company LONGYUAN ZPMC, part of China Longyuan Power. This pilot project is an integrated system of a floating wind turbine and marine aquaculture, and it will be... Continue Reading →
HSI Consortium Wins EPCI Contract for Largest Offshore Wind Farm in the Baltic Sea
(OE) The HSI consortium comprising HSM Offshore Energy, Smulders, and Iv-Offshore & Energy has won a contract to deliver substations and jackets for the largest offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, the Gennaker. Under the contract, awarded by 50Hertz, the consortium will be responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) of the... Continue Reading →
Transocean’s Big Move: Adapting Offshore Drilling Vessels to Install Wind Foundations
Transocean, best known for its deepwater drilling services in the oil and gas space, is looking to expand into the offshore wind sector and is planning to convert some of its offshore drilling vessels into wind foundation installation vessels. The company said Wednesday it had executed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with offshore wind installation... Continue Reading →
Keppel’s Profit Boosted by Sale of Offshore & Marine Business
Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corp Ltd on Thursday posted a higher net profit for the first quarter, boosted by a significant one-off gain recognized from the sale of its offshore & marine unit. In February, Sembcorp Marine completed a S$4.50 billion ($3.37 billion) buyout of Keppel's offshore & marine unit after receiving the necessary shareholder approvals.... Continue Reading →
Siemens Energy signs 7 billion euro offshore power deal with TenneT
(Reuters) - Siemens Energy (ENR1n.DE) has won contracts worth almost 7 billion euros ($7.68 billion) as part of a consortium with Spain's Dragados Offshore (ACS.MC) to transport wind farm power to northern Germany, the German company announced on Thursday. Under the deal with Dutch electric grid company TenneT (IPO-TTH.AS), the companies will supply technology for three offshore grid connections in... Continue Reading →
Pentagon warns Biden’s offshore wind plans conflict with military operations
(Bloomberg) – The Pentagon is sounding alarms over the Biden administration's plans to advance offshore wind projects along the central Atlantic U.S. coast, warning that almost all of the new terrain eyed for development conflicts with military operations. Maps shared with industry stakeholders and seen by Bloomberg News show vast red areas that the Navy... Continue Reading →
Petrobras to release new strategic plan at the end of the year, says Tolmasquim
(epbr) Petrobras has begun reviewing the five-year strategic plan and will release the new plan for the period 2024-2028 at the end of 2023, along the lines of the last revisions, said Maurício Tolmasquim, current executive manager of Strategy at Petrobras. Tolmasquim was appointed to the Board of Energy Transition and Renewable Energy, a new... Continue Reading →
DNV Issues ‘World’s First’ Certification Guidance for Energy Islands and Offshore Wind Farms in Poland
DNV has published an update of its service specification for project certification, DNV-SE-0190, with the new edition now being the world’s first document which addresses the certification of energy islands and offshore wind farms in Poland, according to the certification specialist. The new Appendix in the service specification is addressing country-specific requirements for certification defined... Continue Reading →
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