Offshore engineering

May 29, 2024 (Credit: Huisman) Dutch company Huisman has secured its first contract from Coastal International Marine, part of Malaysia-based oil and gas services company Coastal Contracts, for the supply of deepwater Knuckle Boom Crane. The Knuckle Boom Crane has a lifting capacity of 100 mt and features a deepwater winch and active heave compensation.…

Published:  29 May, 2024 A survey by Westwood Global Energy Group (Westwood), a specialist energy market research and consultancy firm, has revealed a lack of standardisation of floating technology (55%), manufacturing capability and capacity (51%) and port infrastructure (50%) as the most commonly cited major hurdles and risks to floating offshore wind progress, indicating a…

Published:  29 May, 2024 Global energy and marine consultancy ABL has announced the launch of dedicated training products to support competence, technical development and reinforce best practice, across the oil and gas industry. The company says the courses have been developed through a combination of ABL’s multi-disciplined technical expertise and wealth of practical and operational…

MacGregor has settled the dispute with a monopile installation vessel customer as its parent company Cargotec goes forward with the sale of the business. As announced on April 30, 2024 in Cargotec’s interim report January–March 2024, MacGregor has had a dispute related to one and only monopile installation vessel project. MacGregor and the customer have…

May 26, 2024 SLB OneSubsea is leveraging North Sea compliant, configurable equipment for Equinor’s North Sea Troll project. (Photo: Business Wire) SLB has been awarded a contract by Equinor to its OneSubsea™ joint venture. The award leverages an existing long-term contract for the execution of the second stage of Phase 3 for Equinor’s Troll project…

Published:  22 May, 2024 3t (previously 3t Energy Group), has launched a landmark new partnership with Capital City College Group (CCCG) bringing fully funded specialist wind operations training courses to London for the first time. The pioneering partnership has developed a new, state-of-the-art wind operations training centre within Capital City College’s Enfield site in north…

Published:  22 May, 2024 A new report by Robert Gordon University (RGU) has revealed that the UK will fail to achieve a ‘just and fair’ transition by 2030 unless there is urgent alignment across the political spectrum to sustain UK offshore energy industry jobs, supply chain investments and the economic contribution of the workforce. In…

May 16, 2024 Underwater illustration of REM’s new ESCV (Credit: Skipsteknisk) REM Offshore’s new ESCV (Credit: Skipsteknisk) Brunvoll’s new and more compact retractable azimuth combi thruster (Credit: Brunvoll) Brunvoll has signed a contract with Myklebust Verft shipyard for the delivery of a thruster package to REM Offshore’s new energy subsea construction vessel (ESCV). The contract…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected five floating wind technologies as winners of phase two of the FLoating Offshore Wind ReadINess (FLOWIN) Prize, designed to inspire solutions to challenges of large-scale production and deployment of floating wind turbines. The five phase two winners will receive a cash prize of $450,000 and a $100,000…

Published:  15 May, 2024 Ambitious plans to keep the UK at the forefront of technology development in offshore wind have been given the green light with the announcement that UKRI will provide £85.6m of capital funding for the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to expand and upgrade its testing facilities and enable the evolution of…