Offshore engineering

Published:  15 January, 2025 ABL Group has announced it has successfully completed the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Brazil-based naval architecture and engineering consultancy, Proper Marine, which will be merged with ABL Group’s design and engineering arm, Longitude. The planned transaction was first announced on 5 December last year. The acquisition expands ABL…

Published:  15 January, 2025 Soaring levels of renewable generation and a significant rise in electricity imports saw gas-fired output fall to its lowest level in 20 years in 2024. That was the main headline from a new report on on power generation in the British energy market by Montel Analytics. The study showed that GB…

Jan 9, 2025 Blake Habbit, Danos Decommissioning Operations Manager (c) Danos Danos has promoted Blake Habbit to lead the growth and development of the company’s Gulf of Mexico decommissioning services. As operations manager, Habbit will oversee business operations and customer support throughout the decommissioning phase. Leveraging Danos’ diverse portfolio of service offerings, he will coordinate…

Jan 9, 2025 Blake Habbit, Danos Decommissioning Operations Manager (c) Danos Danos has promoted Blake Habbit to lead the growth and development of the company’s Gulf of Mexico decommissioning services. As operations manager, Habbit will oversee business operations and customer support throughout the decommissioning phase. Leveraging Danos’ diverse portfolio of service offerings, he will coordinate…

Published:  08 January, 2025 Following the MoU signed with Norwegian company Ocean-Power in June 2024, SBM Offshore has announced an initial equity investment in Ocean-Power. As a result of this investment, SBM Offshore holds a minority ownership in Ocean-Power AS, and has appointed one director who has joined the company Board. The company says this…

Published:  08 January, 2025 Bilfinger, a leading industrial services provider, has been appointed by Cerulean Winds to join the alliance of companies developing the Aspen, Beech and Cedar floating offshore wind farms, which collectively will generate 3GW+ of renewable green energy. Bilfinger will serve as operations and maintenance (O&M) partner bringing decades of experience in…

Dec 24, 2024 Kaskida FPU (Credit: Exmar Offshore) Seatrium has signed a contract with BP to perform engineering, procurement, construction and onshore commissioning (EPC) work for the Kaskida Floating Production Unit (FPU) deepwater project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The Kaskida project is a greenfield development located approximately 250 miles southwest of New Orleans,…

Dec 23, 2024 Pluto Train 2 module (Credit: Screenshot/Video by Woodside Energy) Pluto Train 2 module (Credit: Screenshot/Video by Woodside Energy) Pluto Train 2 module (Credit: Screenshot/Video by Woodside Energy) The final Pluto Train 2 modules for the Scarborough energy project have arrived at the Pluto LNG facility in Karratha in Western Australia, marking a…

Hitachi Energy has signed contracts totaling over $2 billion with German transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion to deliver four converter stations for two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) links that will support Germany’s clean energy transition. Amprion’s HVDC project, Korridor B, will transport wind energy from the North Sea coast to the Ruhr Region to provide…

Dec 19, 2024 (Credit: Hanwha Ocean) American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has awarded Hanwha Ocean an Approval in Principle (AIP) for its Pre-FEED standard FPSO design intended to create an asset optimized for deployment in the deep waters of West Africa. The FPSO design is 340 meters long and capable of storing approximately 2.38 million…