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Developers Make FID for Canada’s $4B Floating LNG Project

Jun 26, 2024

Cedar LNG, the partnership between Haisla Nation and Pembina Pipeline Corporation, have made a final investment decision (FID) on the Cedar LNG project, a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility with a nameplate capacity of 3.3 million tonnes per annum (mtpa)…

Ørsted's Sunrise Wind Project Gets Final Approval

Jun 21, 2024

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Friday announced its approval of Ørsted’s construction and operations plan (COP) for the Sunrise Wind project, marking the final approval needed from the federal…

Oceaneering Scores $50M Umbilical Contract for Gulf of Mexico Project

Jun 21, 2024

U.S.-based subsea services and technology firm Oceaneering International has secured a contract to supply an electro-hydraulic, steel tube dynamic umbilical for a project in the Gulf of Mexico.The name of the client was not disclosed, but Oceaneering…

Utility Serving San Juan Islands Proposes to Harness Tidal Power

Jun 17, 2024

Tapping tidal flows for power generation has long been an elusive goal for clean-energy advocates. Formidable hurdles in logistics, technology and public acceptance make plans far from certain.Orcas Power and Light Cooperative (OPALCO) has quietly…

Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim Wants to Join Pemex in Deepwater Natural Gas Project

Jun 17, 2024

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday that businessman Carlos Slim is interested in participating in the country's first deepwater natural gas project, working alongside state energy company Pemex.In March, Reuters reported…

Liebherr Secures Order for Two Offshore Cranes for FPSO Operating Off Canada

Jun 17, 2024

Crane specialist Liebherr has sold two of its BOS 2600 Board Offshore Cranes to a Canadian customer that will be installed on the floating production storage offloading unit (FPSO) operating off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada.The BOS 2600…

MacArtney's GreenLink Tech Picked for First Grid-Linked Wave Energy Test Site in US

Jun 14, 2024

MacArtney's GreenLink terminations have been selected to connect innovative wave energy technologies to the grid at the PacWave South wave energy test site, being built offshore Oregon.The PacWave South, run by Oregon State University (OSU) in partnership with the U…

BSEE Conducts First Offshore Wind Turbine Inspection

Jun 13, 2024

The United States' Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said it has conducted an inspection at the South Fork Wind project, marking the agency’s first inspection of an operational offshore wind turbine in U.S. waters. Located offshore New York and Rhode Island…

DORIS Secures FEED Job for Zama Field Offshore Mexico

Jun 13, 2024

The Zama unit partners - operator Pemex, Wintershall Dea, Talos Energy and Harbour Energy - have awarded the Front-End Engineering and Design contract (FEED) to the French engineering company DORIS for the development of Zama oil field offshore Mexico…

Aramco and NextDecade Shake Hands LNG Offtake from Rio Grande LNG Facility

Jun 13, 2024

Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, and NextDecade Corporation have executed a non-binding Heads of Agreement (HoA) for a 20-year liquefied natural gas sale and purchase agreement (LNG SPA) for offtake…

RWE Picks Argeo for Site Survey Work for 1.6GW Floating Wind Farm Off California

Jun 13, 2024

RWE has selected Argeo, a subsea service provider, to perform the site investigation work for Canopy offshore wind farm, a 1.6 GW floating wind project located off the coast of Northern California.The site investigation survey is a key milestone…

Construction Begins at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal

Jun 10, 2024

A groundbreaking ceremony on Monday signaled the start of construction on what will be the nation’s largest dedicated offshore wind port at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT) in New York City.The 73-acre site that will serve as the operations and maintenance hub for Equinor's Empire Wind 1…

Baker Hughes Gets Multi-Year P&A Contract from Petrobras for Fields Off Brazil

Jun 10, 2024

U.S. oilfield services giant Baker Hughes has secured a contract from Brazil state-owned oil and gas major Petrobras for workover and plug and abandonment (P&A) services in pre-salt and post-salt fields offshore Brazil.The multi-year project…

BOEM to Lend Helping Hand to Maryland’s Offshore Wind

Jun 10, 2024

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the State of Maryland have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support the coordinated development of offshore wind energy in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic state.Under the MoU, BOEM and the State…

BP and Worley Form Strategic Operational Alliance

Jun 10, 2024

BP and Worley have formed a new strategic alliance across BP’s global site projects, spanning the Gulf of Mexico, Middle East and Africa.The alliance will improve capital efficiency in site projects saving an initial estimated $ 40 million over…

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