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Aibel Wins $706M Deal to Build Unmanned Offshore Platform 'Of the future'

Dec 16, 2022

Oil and gas company Aker BP has awarded Aibel, a Norwegian engineering and construction firm, a contract worth around 7 billion crowns ($706,1 million) to build the Munin offshore platform (formerly Krafla) in the Yggdrasil area, offshore Norway…

South Korea: Hanwha Group Inks Deal to Take Over Daewoo Shipbuilding

Dec 16, 2022

South Korea's Hanwha Group has signed an agreement to take over Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Daewoo Shipbuilding said in a regulatory filing on Friday. The deal comes after the two parties signed a tentative agreement in September in which affiliates of Hanwha Group…

OKEA Step Closer to Powering Draugen Offshore Platform from Shore

Dec 15, 2022

Norwegian offshore energy engineering and construction company Aker Solutions has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the oil firm OKEA for the electrification of OKEA's Draugen offshore platform.  The Draugen oil field sits in about 250 meters of water…

Dutch Company Launches Wind Turbine Foundation Installation Vessel Design

Dec 15, 2022

Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam has launched a design for a new offshore wind foundation installation vessel (FIV), called VERticale, in response to ever-growing wind turbines needing larger foundations.'VERticale is developed for an optimized deck layout…

Technip Energies to Design Mega Floating Offshore Wind Project

Dec 15, 2022

Italian renewable developer Renexia has selected France's Technip Energies to study and design key elements of one of the world's biggest floating offshore wind farms, the French engineering group said on Thursday. The French group, which this…

Saipem Bags $1.2B Worth Offshore Oil Field Contracts in Guyana and Egypt

Dec 15, 2022

Italian energy industry services company Saipem has secured offshore oil and gas field construction contracts in Guyana and Egypt worth about $1.2 billion in total.In Guyana, the U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has hired Saipem to support its Uaru offshore oil field development project…

16,000t Jacket Completed for Azeri Offshore Platform Project

Dec 14, 2022

Oil major BP said Tuesday that the jacket of the Azeri Central East (ACE) platform built at the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory (BDJF) was ready for load-out to sail away to its permanent location in the ACG contract area in the Caspian Sea…

EEW-AOS to Build Monopiles for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Farm Off New Jersey

Dec 13, 2022

U.S. offshore wind developer Atlantic Shores, a 50:50 partnership between Shell and EDF, has executed a Pre-Commitment and Capacity Reservation Agreement (PCCRA) with EEW American Offshore Structures Inc. (EEW-AOS) to serve as the manufacturing company for monopiles on its 1…

Hartshead Taps Petrofac for North Sea Platform, Pipeline FEED

Dec 13, 2022

UK North Sea-focused Hartshead Resources has awarded Petrofac two contracts in respect of the platforms FEED contract for Harshead's Anning and Somerville unmanned minimum facilities jackets and topsides and the subsea FEED contract for the…

How Do Floating Wind Turbines Work?

Dec 12, 2022

Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it also has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly, making building traditional wind turbines directly on the seafloor costly if not impossible…

Radix Creates Virtual FPSO Training Environment to Reduce Commissioning Phase Risks

Dec 12, 2022

Brazil-based Radix Software and Engineering said Monday it had created a virtual FPSO training environment for a major operator with the goal of reducing risk in the asset commissioning phase by training operators in process optimization and validation of operational manuals…

First Steel Cut for TenneT's Offshore Substation

Dec 12, 2022

The first steel was cut on Friday, December 9, for the topside of TenneT's offshore transformer station for the Hollandse Kust (west Beta) wind farm zone. A first steel cut ceremony was held at the Equans yard in Hoboken, Belgium, marking the…

Wah Seong Wins $127M FPSO Topside Module Order

Dec 09, 2022

Wah Seong Corporation's Singapore-based subsidiary, WS Engineering & Fabrication Pte. has won a contract to build FPSO topside modules from Malaysian FPSO supplier Yinson.The contract is worth around $127 million.According to Wah Seong, the scope of work of the contract involves engineering…

Barcelona-Marseille Hydrogen Subsea Pipeline to Cost Around 2B Euros

Dec 09, 2022

An underwater pipeline to carry green hydrogen between Barcelona and Marseille will cost around 2 billion euros ($2.1 billion), according to preliminary estimates of the project agreed between Spain, Portugal and France, two sources told Reuters…

Firms in Norway Team Up to Develop Low-cost Floating Wind Farms

Dec 09, 2022

Mainstream Renewable Power, Ocean Winds, and Statkraft have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Aker Solutions, to collaborate on offshore wind at the Utsira Nord license area in Norway.Mainstream, Ocean Winds, and Statkraft are…

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