Offshore engineering

Sep 24, 2024 (Credit: ORE Catapult) The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has selected IDOM and RENK Group as preferred contractors to support the development of its new blade testing and upgraded drive train testing facilities. The news follows the $114 million investment ORE Catapult secured from UKRI in May 2024 to expand and upgrade…

Maersk Supply Service has awarded Scottish flex-lay specialist Maritime Developments (MDL) a solution-development scope in the Mero block in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The scope entails the development of an integrated spread of equipment and expert personnel to support installation of a dynamic riser assembly, which will enable connection to a grid of  Permanent…

A group of industry specialist companies has achieved a world first for the wind industry, with a major component exchange (MCE) being performed on an offshore floating wind turbine while it remained on site at the Scottish Kincardine offshore wind farm, located south east of Aberdeen. The new, more cost-effective, process was delivered through a…

Danish engineering firm R&D Test Systems has completed the 3,700 metric ton foundation for the new Lindø Offshore Renewables Centre (LORC) main bearings test facility, which will be capable of performing extreme test loads on main bearings for 25 MW wind turbines. With delivery due in 2025, the 35-meter long and 18-meter high test bench…

Published:  18 September, 2024 With the offshore wind industry rapidly deploying scaled-up turbines – swelling from 2MW versions in 2000 to potential 20MW+ variants by 2030 – new operations and maintenance (O&M) challenges threaten to undermine profitability, efficiency, and safety in the sector. At the same time, an aging fleet of wind farms now require…

Published:  18 September, 2024 CRP Subsea, an AIS company, has announced it has secured a substantial contract from ocean services supplier DeepOcean. The contract involves supplying cable protection systems for RWE’s Nordseecluster A offshore wind project, located in the German North Sea. Under this agreement, CRP Subsea will deliver 96 NjordGuard cable protection systems (CPS)…

Floating offshore wind company X1 Wind has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with mooring line manufacturer and cable developer FibreMax to boost performance of floating offshore wind solutions, with focus on tension leg platform (TLP) tendons. X1 Wind’s collaboration with FibreMax will explore opportunities to boost performance and sustainability of its mooring configuration with…

Renexia, through its subsidiary Renext Solutions, has signed a front-end engineering and design contract (FEED) with Aker Solutions to design the underwater substations for Med Wind project, a 2.8 GW floating wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea. Aker Solutions will work in close cooperation with its alliance partner ABB to deliver the project scope. The…

Published:  11 September, 2024 Aquaterra Energy, a leader in offshore engineering solutions, has announced the launch of its legacy well re-entry and re-abandonment services along with its new patent-pending Recoverable Abandonment Frame (RAF). The company says the combined solution will address challenges in locating, re-entering and re-abandoning legacy wells that penetrate, or pass through, offshore…

Published:  11 September, 2024 Motive Offshore Group, a specialist in rental, inspection and engineering equipment for the energy sector, has announced its acquisition of Aquatic, a global leader in laying and retrieving flexible products from the seabed, previously owned by marine energy and infrastructure services company Acteon. The deal will increase Motive’s rental fleet and…