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Bureau Veritas Certifies 25MW French Floating Wind Farm

Oct 08, 2025

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) has issued a certification for the recently inaugurated 25 MW Provence Grand Large floating offshore wind project, developed and owned by EDF Power Solutions, Enbridge and CPP Investments.BV has been involved in Provence Grand Large project journey since 2017…

All 37 Turbines at Hai Long 2 Wind Farm Stand Tall off Taiwan

Oct 08, 2025

All 37 turbines at the 532 MW Hai Long 2 offshore wind farm, being built in Taiwan, have been installed.Hai Long offshore wind project, with a total 1 GW capacity, is being developed by Mitsui & Co., Northland Power, and Gentari, and consists of Hai Long 2 and Hai Long 3 wind farms…

ESA, UK Space Agency Back ACUA Ocean’s Subsea Inspection Robotics System

Oct 07, 2025

ACUA Ocean has secured a European Space Agency (ESA) contract, supported by the UK Space Agency, to further advance its ‘nested robotic’ system for subsea inspection.The project will accelerate ACUA0’s development of Pioneer-class autonomous…

New Mooring Tech Set to Unlock Vast Floating Solar-Hydro Potential

Oct 07, 2025

Fred. Olsen 1848 has unveiled the Tension Buoy, an adaptive mooring technology designed to overcome one of the main challenges of deploying floating solar on water bodies with large water level variations.Pairing floating solar with hydropower…

SHI’s 15MW Floating Wind Platform Gets ABS Approval

Oct 03, 2025

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has issued an approval in principle (AIP) to Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for its SnapWind Float, a new design of a semi-submersible-type floating offshore wind turbine.The SnapWind Float is designed for next-generation 15 MW offshore wind turbines…

AI Push: SBM Offshore to Rolls Out Cognite Platform Fleet-Wide in Brazil

Oct 03, 2025

SBM Offshore, an FPSO solutions specialist, and Cognite, an industrial AI company, have announced an acceleration of their strategic partnership to deploy Cognite’s data and AI platform across SBM Offshore’s entire Brazilian fleet.The initiative…

SBM Offshore, SLB to Optimize FPSO Performance Using AI

Oct 03, 2025

SLB, a global energy technology company, and SBM Offshore, a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) solutions specialist, have signed an agreement to enter into an exclusive digital alliance to optimize the performance of offshore production systems…

DEEP Expands U.S. Operations with $100m Investment, Builds Subsea Human Habitat in Florida

Oct 02, 2025

DEEP, an ocean engineering and technology company, announced a major expansion of its operations in the United States, including a $100 million investment in a permanent engineering and development hub in Florida and a manufacturing facility in Houston…

Guyana’s First: Saipem Builds Complex Subsea Structure for ExxonMobil’s Uaru Field

Oct 01, 2025

Saipem has completed the first complex subsea structure ever built in Guyana, set for deployment at ExxonMobil’s Uaru field, marking a key milestone in the development of the country's industrial capabilities in the subsea sector.This is the Pipeline End Termination (PLET)…

Eiffage Secures $1.75B Contract for Offshore Substations in France

Sep 30, 2025

Eiffage, through Smulders, has been awarded a contract by RTE, France’s transmission system operator, to develop and build three alternating current substations for the Bretagne Sud, Narbonnaise Sud-Hérault and Golfe de Fos French offshore wind farms…

Clean Hydrogen Breakthrough in South Korea

Sep 29, 2025

South Korea’s Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) has developed and demonstrated the nation’s first 20kW-class anode-supported solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) system, completing more than 3,000 hours of stable, continuous operation with electrical efficiency above 83%…

Semco Maritime, PTSC M&C Sign Substation Deal for Taiwan’s OW Farm

Sep 29, 2025

The consortium between Semco Maritime and PTSC Mechanical & Construction has secured an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract with Synera Renewable Energy (SRE) to deliver the offshore substation for the Formosa 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan…

TotalEnergies to Roll Out Cognite AI Platform Across Upstream Assets

Sep 26, 2025

French energy giant TotalEnergies has expanded its partnership with Cognite to scale the deployment of the industrial AI company’s data platform across all of its operated upstream assets worldwide over the period of three years.The collaboration…

Aker Solutions Reaches New Heights with Autonomous Drones Inspection Ops

Sep 25, 2025

Aker Solutions has become the first company in Europe to secure certification for unlimited beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations, further advancing autonomous inspection for offshore platforms, onshore yards, process plants and…

RWE Hires Semco Maritime for Maintenance of German Offshore Substations

Sep 25, 2025

RWE and Semco Maritime have entered into services frame agreement for the maintenance of offshore substations in Germany.The frame agreement runs until end of 2027, with an option for a two-year extension.It covers scheduled and unscheduled…

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