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Japanese Firm Joins Floating Wind Demo off Spain

Jun 25, 2025

Electric Power Development Co. (J-POWER) has joined the WHEEL project, a floating offshore wind power demonstration project in Gran Canaria, led by Spanish firm Esteyco.In the demonstration project, a floating offshore wind turbine, rated at 6…

Mauritius Seeks Investors for Floating Power Plant

Jun 24, 2025

Mauritius is inviting international investors to establish and operate a floating power plant as the Indian Ocean island nation seeks to address its growing energy needs, according to a tender issued by the state-owned Central Electricity Board…

Siemens Gamesa to Help Build Japan’s Offshore Wind Supply Chain

Jun 24, 2025

Japan's industry ministry will sign an agreement with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy on Tuesday to establish a framework for public-private cooperation aimed at building local supply chains for offshore wind power, a ministry official said…

Blue Logic and Hydromea to Accelerate Subsea WLAN Deployments

Jun 19, 2025

Hydromea, a leader in high-speed wireless subsea optical communication, and Blue Logic, a pioneer in underwater inductive power and data transfer, have announced a strategic partnership they say will revolutionize wireless subsea communications…

Viridien, TGS Kick Off Next Phase of Laconia Sparse OBN Survey in US Gulf

Jun 19, 2025

Seismic firms TGS and Viridien have started the Laconia Phase III ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Gulf of America, building on the previously completed Phases I and II.The goal of the Laconia Phase III is to extend extra-long-offset-low…

DeepOcean Bolsters Subsea Robotics Fleet with Eight New ROVs

Jun 18, 2025

Ocean services provider DeepOcean has expanded its fleet of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) by adding eight new units to its existing fleet.Three new ROVs have recently been delivered, with the remaining five scheduled for delivery over the next four years…

SLB Rolls Out Sequestri Carbon Storage Tech Portfolio

Jun 17, 2025

Global energy technology company SLB has launched Sequestri carbon storage solutions, a comprehensive portfolio of technologies and services for accelerating safer and more economic carbon storage projects.The Sequestri portfolio addresses the unique challenges of long-term carbon storage…

Republican Governor Doesn’t Want Trump’s Offshore Drilling

Jun 16, 2025

The Republican governor of South Carolina appealed to the Trump administration on Monday to leave his state out of an impending plan to increase offshore oil and gas production.The letter comes as the administration wraps up a 45-day request…

Orsted Favors Increasing Investments in Taiwan, South Korea

Jun 16, 2025

Orsted, the world's biggest offshore wind developer, will increase investment in Taiwan and South Korea where it has already been awarded projects, instead of expanding to new markets in Asia, a senior company official told Reuters on Monday…

SMST Books Equipment Order for LDA’s Newbuild SOVs

Jun 16, 2025

Dutch offshore equipment supplier SMST has been selected by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) for the delivery of two sets of mission equipment, with an option for a third set, for service operation vessels (SOVs) ordered by Vattenfall.The Telescopic Access Bridges (TAB-L1)…

Egypt Halts Fertilizer Production In Light of Israeli Gas Disruptions

Jun 13, 2025

Egyptian fertilizer producers were forced to halt operations on Friday due to a drop in natural gas imports from Israel, industry sources told Reuters.They said major Israeli gas fields had suspended operations following Israel's military strikes…

TotalEnergies’ Unit to Build Battery Storage Site in Japan to Help Balance Grid

Jun 13, 2025

French oil major TotalEnergies' subsidiary Saft has been selected to build a 1 gigawatt-hour battery energy storage system in Japan's Fukushima, the company said on Thursday.Part of a larger project by Asian renewable developer Gurin Energy…

Petrobras, TechnipFMC Kick Off Electric-Actuation Pilot in Brazil

Jun 13, 2025

TechnipFMC and Petrobras have agreed to test and monitor a new electric actuation technology that is set to join the TechnipFMC eSolutions portfolio of electrical subsea systems.Scheduled for integration into a subsea tree planned for installation in 2026…

CCS Capacity to Quadruple by 2030, DNV Report Finds

Jun 13, 2025

DNV has published a report forecasting that carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity is expected to quadruple by 2030, with sharp increase project pipeline capacity indicating that CCS is at a turning point.The immediate rise in capacity is…

Israel Orders Energean to Halt FPSO Production as Iran Launches Counterstrikes

Jun 13, 2025

British gas producer Energean said on Friday it has temporarily suspended the production and activities of its Power floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) located offshore Northern Israel due to the geopolitical escalation in the Middle East…

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