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VIDEO: Woodside Removes Nganhurra Riser Turret Mooring

Oct 20, 2023

The Australian oil and gas company Woodside has removed the Nganhurra Riser Turret Mooring (RTM) from the Enfield field, located approximately 52 km northwest of Exmouth in Western Australia.According to Woodside, the RTM has been lifted onto a barge off North West Cape in Western Australia and is now transiting to the Australian Marine Complex (AMC) near Perth, where it will be cleaned and deconstructed in preparation for recycling and reuse…

SubseaPartner Inks North Sea Offshore Contract

Dec 07, 2023

Norwegian Diving Contractor, SubseaPartner, won a contract for the 2024 season, work awarded by OceanInstaller for end-client Vår Energi as part of the Balder Future Project.The first phase of work encompasses engineering, planning, design, fabrication…

Shell Selects Subsea 7 for Decommissioning Project Offshore Brazil

Nov 20, 2023

Subsea 7 said Monday it had secured a sizable contract from Shell for the decommissioning of subsea infrastructure associated with the FPSO Fluminense offshore Brazil.The FPSO is located at the Bijupirá and Salema fields of the Campos Basin…

Anchor Handler Construction: What to Expect as Floating Wind Picks Up

Aug 16, 2023

A fleet of newbuild specialized anchor handlers will be required to help build up the emerging floating offshore wind industry. But since the industry is still in its early days, many unknowns have made it difficult for shipyards and their partners to gear up to build this fleet…

Balmoral Develops In-Line Mooring Buoyancy for Offshore Wind and SURF Applications

Aug 10, 2023

Aberdeen-based Balmoral has developed mooring buoyancy for the offshore wind and SURF sectors.'A comprehensive range of ‘off-the-shelf’ products are deployed across a number of applications, from simple location markers to short term installation/deployment aids…

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…

Mooring & Anchors: InterMoor Wins Floating Wind Gig in Asia

Oct 20, 2022

InterMoor said Thursday it had secured the engineering design scope and the transportation and installation study for two upcoming offshore floating wind farms offshore Asia. The company, a brand in Acteon’s Engineering, Moorings and Foundations Division…

Greater Tortue Ahmeyim FPSO Returned to Quayside after Drifting Off Due to Typhoon

Sep 27, 2022

Oil and gas company Kosmos Energy said Tuesday that the FPSO for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project had been returned to the quayside  of the COSCO shipyard in China, following the recent incident in which the vessel drifted away due to the impact of Typhoon Muifa…

Guanabara FPSO Mooring System Installed with Just One Vessel

Sep 02, 2022

Heavy lift shipping and offshore transport and installation contractor Jumbo Offshore reports it has executed the transport and installation of a torpedo pile mooring system, including mooring for flexible risers, umbilical for the Libra Consortium's…

Shell Hires Maersk Supply Service to Fix FPSO Mooring Lines in Brazil

Aug 11, 2022

Danish offshore vessel owner, Maersk Supply Service has won a contract with Shell in Brazil for the mooring line remediation of the FPSO Fluminense, located off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.The scope of the project includes remediation work on two of the Fluminense FPSO's mooring lines…

Floating Wind: DemoSATH Floater Launched in Spain (VIDEO)

Jul 20, 2022

Spanish offshore engineering firm Saitec Offshore Technologies and renewables giant RWE on Wednesday marked the completion and the launching operation of their DemoSATH floating wind unit. SATH Technology is based on a concrete platform concept with a plug-and-play Single Point Mooring…

Havfram Bags Senegalese Mooring Pre-Lay Contract from MODEC

Jun 21, 2022

Offshore services company Havfram announced it has been awarded a contract from MODEC Offshore Production Systems (Singapore) Pte Ltd. (MODEC) for the pre-installation of the subsea mooring system for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) in 2022…

Subsea 7 Wins Major Deal with Petrobras in Brazil

May 27, 2022

Offshore installation services company Subsea 7 said Thursday it had won a major contract with Petrobras in Brazil. Subsea 7 defines a major contract as being over $750 million.The contract is related to the development of the Búzios 8 field…

VIDEO: Anchors and Mooring Lines in Place for Saitec's DemoSATH Floater

May 17, 2022

Danish offshore vessel company Maersk Supply Service has installed six mooring lines and six anchors for the DemoSATH floating wind project at the BIMEP open sea test site in the Biscay Bay off the coast of Armintza, Spain.SATH Technology is…

Gall Thomson Launches Emergency Mooring Release System for Offshore Applications

Apr 19, 2022

Gall Thomson has launched an innovative new automatic actuation system, promising to minimize safety risks associated with the manual emergency release of mooring systems during FPSO tandem offloading ocean towage, heading control, positioning…

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