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Inch Cape Agrees 15-Year PPA with SSE Energy for 1.1GW Offshore Wind Farm

Sep 17, 2024

Inch Cape Offshore Limited, developer of the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm, has signed a long-term route-to-market power purchase agreement (PPA) with SSE Energy Markets.SSE Energy Markets will offtake 50% of the wind farm’s electricity output…

Johan Castberg FPSO Anchors at Barents Sea Field

Sep 17, 2024

Equinor, the operator of the Johan Castberg field, has anchored the floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) unit at the field in in the Barents Sea, which is expected to start producing at the end of 2024.The hook-up of the FPSO to the subsea facilities…

Equinor Makes Oil and Gas Discovery in North Sea

Sep 17, 2024

Equinor and its partners have made an oil and gas discovery on the Gudrun field in the North Sea, offshore Norway, using Odfjell Drilling's Deepsea Stavanger semi-submersible drilling rig.The discovery was made in wildcat wells 15/3-13 S and 15/3-13 A…

TWP Hands in Offshore Scoping Report for 1GW Scottish Offshore Wind Farm

Sep 16, 2024

Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), a consortium of DEME Concessions, Qair and Aspiravi, has submitted the offshore scoping report for its Bowdun offshore wind farm to the Scottish Government.The report provides information on the proposed offshore…

Vallourec Boosts Pipe Coating Offering with Latest Acquisition

Sep 16, 2024

French tubular solutions supplier Vallourec has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Matt’s subsidiary Thermotite do Brasil, a specialized provider of thermal insulation pipe coating services for the offshore oil and gas industry.The acquisition price is $17…

Nexans to Link Orkney Islands with UK Mainland via 220MW Interconnector

Sep 16, 2024

Following the capacity reservation agreement signed in November 2023, French cable maker Nexans has signed an agreement with SSEN Transmission to produce and install the cable that will connect Orkney Isles with the U.K. mainland.The contract…

Apollo Takes Share of BP’s Trans Adriatic Pipeline in $1B Deal

Sep 16, 2024

BP and Apollo have entered into an agreement for Apollo-managed funds to purchase a non-controlling stake in BP Pipelines TAP Limited, BP’s subsidiary that holds a 20% share in Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), in a transaction valued at approximately $1 billion…

Rovco and Vaarst Unite Under New Brand Beam

Sep 16, 2024

High-technology offshore wind companies Rovco and Vaarst have entered into merger, creating a new brand Beam to boost their offshore wind services.In uniting their capabilities across research, development, and deployment, Beam will provide…

Aker BP Extends Stay of Saipem’s Scarabeo 8 Drilling Rig Off Noway

Sep 16, 2024

Italian offshore energy services firm Saipem has secured contract extension with Aker BP for its Scarabeo 8 semi-submersible drilling rig, in operation offshore Norway.The contract for Saipem’s Scarabeo 8 for has been extended until the end of 2026…

Ireland and EIB to Jointly Assess Irish Offshore Wind Ports Development

Sep 13, 2024

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Irish Department of Transport have established an advisory cooperation to assess capacity, demand and financing strategies for the development of offshore renewable energy port infrastructure, which…

Northern Ocean Names New Chief Commercial Officer

Sep 13, 2024

Offshore drilling contractor Northern Ocean has appointed Eirik Sunde as the new Chief Commercial Officer.Effective as of December 1, 2024, Sunde will join Northern Ocean from Transocean, where he has served as Senior Marketing Manager, overseeing commercial processes for the Norwegian sector…

Aker Solutions to Design Substations for Mediterranean Floating Wind Project

Sep 12, 2024

Renexia, through its subsidiary Renext Solutions, has signed a front-end engineering and design contract (FEED) with Aker Solutions to design the underwater substations for Med Wind project, a 2.8 GW floating wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea…

Vattenfall Launches 344MW Danish Offshore Wind Farms

Sep 12, 2024

The Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd offshore wind farms, developed by Vattenfall with a combined capacity of 344 MW, have been officially inaugurated offshore Denmark.The two, almost identical wind farms, are located off the Danish west coast and consists in total of 41 wind turbines…

Nexans Plans $99M Facilities Upgrade to Support European Offshore Wind

Sep 12, 2024

French subsea power cable maker Nexans has unveiled plans to invest $99 million (€90 million) in the construction of new and the upgrade of existing facilities to support the development of offshore wind and subsea interconnections in Europe…

First Steel Cut for IJmuiden Ver Beta HVDC Offshore Platform

Sep 11, 2024

Transmission system operator TenneT and marine engineering and construction company Seatrium have held a strike steel ceremony at Tuas Boulevard Yard in Singapore, marking the start of construction of offshore platform IJmuiden Ver Beta, one of the first Dutch 2 GW grid connection projects…

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