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Seatrium Hires KBR on Topsides Job for FPSOs Bound for Petrobras Brazil Fields

Sep 06, 2024

U.S.-based engineering and construction giant KBR has been hired by Seatrium to develop topsides facilities for two floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units, being designed for Petrobras’ Atapu and Sepia fields in the Santos Basin…

Archer to Support TotalEnergies' Culzean Floating Wind Project

Aug 29, 2024

Archer Wind, Archer’s floating offshore wind solutions provider, has been awarded its first contract by TotalEnergies for delivery of the floating wind foundation for the Culzean Wind Pilot.The Culzean Wind Pilot will be connected to the Culzean platform…

Cyprus Sets Deadline for Aphrodite Development Plan

Aug 26, 2024

A Chevron-led consortium that holds licensing rights over a gas field off Cyprus will present an updated development plan within days, one of the partners said on Monday, after Cyprus gave them a three-month deadline to comply.There have been…

Wood Advances CCS Projects Offshore Norway

Aug 26, 2024

Engineering firm Wood said it is advancing three carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.The company has assessed the technical feasibility of the Trudvang, Luna and Havstjerne CCS projects, which combined can store up to 21 million tonnes of CO2 annually…

Indonesia Green Lights Eni Gas Projects

Aug 23, 2024

Indonesia has approved a development plan for the first phase of the Geng North gas field operated by Italy's Eni in the Makassar Strait, the upstream oil and gas regulator SKK Migas said in a statement on Friday.The approval also covered the development of the nearby Gehem field…

BP Picks Designers for Kaskida FPU in the US Gulf of Mexico

Aug 21, 2024

BP has selected Exmar Offshore and Audubon Engineering Company to complete engineering and design of a floating production unit (FPU) destined for the British supermajor's deepwater Kaskida development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.Exmar Offshore…

Windfarm to Serve as an Environmental Monitoring Platform

Aug 20, 2024

Salamander, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7, has partnered with two Scottish universities to investigate any potential impact of floating windfarms on marine ecosystems.The PREDICT 2.0 initiative involves deployment…

Maine Wins Federal Floating Wind Research Lease

Aug 19, 2024

The Biden administration on Monday issued an offshore wind lease to the state of Maine for a small project that will demonstrate floating turbine technology off the U.S. East Coast.The lease area covers 9,700 acres (3,920 hectares) and is 28 nautical miles (52 kilometers) from shore…

A Hydrogen Balancing Act in Offshore Energy

Aug 19, 2024

The intermittency of offshore wind power is both a challenge and an opportunity for green hydrogen production.  There will be a new generation of platforms taking up space in offshore wind farms as hydrogen production is used to help balance power supply and demand…

"World's Most Powerful Floating Wind Turbine" Sets Sail

Aug 19, 2024

OceanX, which is reported by its developer MingYang Group to be the world's largest single capacity floating wind power platform, embarked on its journey from Guangzhou to the Yangjiang Mingyang Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm in Guangdong, China…

Ultra-High Pressure Oil Wells Could Unleash another 2B Barrels from GOM

Aug 18, 2024

U.S. energy firms last week cut oil and natural gas rigs for the second time in three weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Friday.The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, fell by two to 586 in the week to Aug…

Subsea7 Scoops Gulf of Mexico Contract

Aug 16, 2024

Subsea7 today announced the award of a sizeable contract in the US Gulf of Mexico worth between $50 million and $150 million.The scope of work includes engineering, procurement, construction, and offshore installation of a water injection flowline…

Italian Firm Gets Electrolyser Assembly Job for Dutch Offshore Wind Farm

Aug 08, 2024

CrossWind has awarded Fores Engineering, a subsidiary of the Rosetti Marino Group, a contract for the assembly of 2.5 MW offshore electrolyser for the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm.The contract is for the assembly of a 2.5 MW Offshore…

ABS to Support Al Shaheen Field Development

Aug 05, 2024

Genesis North America (GNA), as a major subcontractor of Offshore Oil Engineering Co., (COOEC), has engaged ABS to support RUYA Project, a production capacity improvement plan for the Al Shaheen field in Qatar operated by North Oil Company (NOC)…

Saipem, Curtiss-Wright Advance Tech Set to Extend Lifecyle of Subsea Fields

Jul 29, 2024

Saipem and Curtiss-Wright Corporation have reached a new milestone for the subsea applications industry, having completed the qualification process of an all-electric seabed barrier fluid-less pump.Developed based on proprietary solutions inherited from the nuclear sector…

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