A fleet of Jones Act compliant crew transfer vessels is growing in stride with the United States’ burgeoning offshore wind industry.When the United Sates’ first purpose-built crew transfer vessel (CTV), Atlantic Pioneer, was delivered in 2016…
Swedish wave energy company CorPower Ocean is nearing completion of planned on-land inspection and upgrades of its first commercial-scale wave energy device, C4, following its first deployment offshore Portugal. The upgrades being implemented…
Kongsberg Maritime has introduced a new size of underwater mountable azimuth thruster with a 3.7 meter propeller and 4.2-megawatt power output model joining the range. Suited to a range of vessels including drill ships, windfarm vessels and production vessels…
Examining similarities and differences between the deepwater oil & gas and the emerging floating wind segment.There has been much excitement around the potential for the offshore wind industry to access deeper water sites through the deployment of floating wind technology…
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Dutch company FibreMax have signed an agreement to collaborate on stiffness-driven mooring tendons for the floating offshore wind market.The collaboration, which is principally focused on floating offshore wind assets…
Denmark-based renewable energy technology developer Floating Power Plant has acquired wind turbine generator from Siemens Gamesa for its flagship floating wind, wave, and green hydrogen hybrid offshore platform.The selected wind turbine, a 4…
NextFloat+ project, being developed by X1 Wind, Technip Energies and NextFloat Plus, has received a multi-million-dollar grant from the European Commission’s Innovation Fund to accelerate deployment of X1 Wind’s 6 MW pre-commercial floating wind platform…
There is a flurry of development underway to cut seafloor seismic and geotechnical survey technologies free from on-site control.The deeper you go, the quieter the ocean becomes. It’s something that Kyrre Tjøm is exploiting in his back-to-basics approach to ocean bottom nodes (OBNs)…
In the maritime and offshore energy and renewables industries, where precision and safety in handling and lifting solutions are paramount, the need for highly reliable and realistic training and testing solutions is critical, says Stig Espeseth…
Innovation in the offshore energy sector is in Balmoral’s DNA. From the OTC show floor in Houston, Gary Yeoman discusses recent project wins and milestones in both the offshore oil and gas plus wind sectors, including the Rosebank Project and Hornsea 3.
Floating wind startup Aikido Technologies announced the close of its over-subscribed $4 million Series Seed investment round. The financing was led by Azolla Ventures with participation from Propeller Ventures, Sabanci Climate Ventures, Cisco Foundation…
Ponticelli Angoil has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services contract by oil and gas company Azule Energy for work offshore Angola.Ponticelli’s UK-based consortium, PBS, will provide expert engineering and procurement services support on this three-year contract…
Inyanga Marine Energy Group and Verdant Morlais (VML) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deliver a 4.9 MW tidal stream energy project at Morlais tidal energy zone, off Wales.The project will take place in a berth close to the…
The next phase of the On Demand Ocean Bottom Node (OD OBN) project, involving Sonardyne, Shell, Petrobras and SENAI CIMATEC, has started offshore Brazil, which could result in the development of next generation of geophysical monitoring systems in the offshore oil and gas industry…
SLB and Aker Carbon Capture (ACC) have launched a joint venture, set up to enable wider adoption of market-ready and new carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies for power and hard-to-abate industrial sectors worldwideThe new company combines technology portfolios…