Offshore engineering


  • Pioneering Spirit Booked for Gennaker Substation Installs

    Apr 29, 2024 (Photo: Allseas) Dutch offshore contractor Allseas informs it has secured the contract to perform transport and installation (T&I) of two major substations (so called OSS) for the Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, developed by transmission operator 50Hertz. Located 15 kilometers off the German coast near the Darß peninsula,…


  • BW Ideol Presents Standard Floating Wind Foundation for Mass Production

    BW Ideol has unveiled its standardized foundation for floating offshore wind, ready for mass production to accommodate the needs of the growing sector. With over 22 GW already awarded in Scotland, around 8 GW in the USA, and several GW currently being awarded or in the tendering phase elsewhere in the world, floating wind is…


  • New UK-US collaboration

    New UK-US collaboration

    Published:  24 April, 2024 Applications opened on 18 April 2024 for a unique project that could expand the US market for innovative UK companies developing technology which can help support the growing floating offshore wind market in the United States. The ‘UK-US Floating Offshore Wind Supply Chain Innovation Bilateral (FLOWB)’ supply chain programme brings together…


  • Demonstrating sealing and retaining ring solutions

    Published:  24 April, 2024 Expertise with metallic sealing and retaining ring solutions – a cornerstone of the RenewableUK member company’s activity – will be on display on the Cross Manufacturing stand at the Global Offshore Wind 2024 exhibition and conference, taking place on 18-19 June in Manchester. Borne out of traditional turbine technologies, Cross expertise…


  • ABL Gets Neptun Deep Job for OMV Petrom in Black Sea

    Apr 18, 2024 (Credit: OMV Petrom) OMV Petrom has appointed global energy and marine consultancy ABL to provide Marine Warranty Survey (MWS) services for the construction of Romania’s Neptun Deep gas field project in the Black Sea. ABL’s London operation has won the contract to provide MWS services to review, survey and approve all operations…


  • Full Capacity Operations at Tyra II Gas Development Up for Potential Delays

    The Tyra Redevelopment Project (Tyra II), operated by TotalEnergies, has faced an operational occurrence which has temporarily impacted the commissioning of the facilities at Denmark’s largest offshore gas development. According to an update from TotalEnergies, an operational occurrence related to the IP compressor is temporarily impacting the commissioning of the new Tyra facilities during the…


  • Full education programme announced for Smart Manufacturing & Engineering Week 2024

    Published:  18 April, 2024 The education programme for Smart Manufacturing & Engineering Week has been announced with nearly 150 free-to-attend sessions taking place across eight solutions theatres during the live events on 5th and 6th June 2024 at Birmingham’s NEC. The full programme of keynote presentations and other sessions is available at: https://www.mandeweek.co.uk/educational-content-2024. Visitors are…


  • ONGC Hires Consortium to Deliver FEED Work for Bay of Bengal Oil Field

    India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has awarded pre-FEED/FEED contract for Cluster-1 Development, located in Krishna Godavari (KG) Basin in the Bay of Bengal to Nauvata Energy Transition (NET Enterprise) and PERC Engineering. The contract encompasses concept study, tender bid package preparation and project management consultancy (PMC) services for two developments in the KG-Basin…


  • Allseas Makes Progress on Santos’ Barossa Gas Export Pipeline in Australia

    Offshore installation contractor Allseas has made progress on the installation of the pipeline for Santos’ Barossa Gas Export Pipeline (GEP) project offshore Australia. Allseas’ Audacia pipelay vessel has installed her largest ever PLET in S-mode, concluding several years of in-house engineering, fabrication and testing, the Swiss-based contractor said. Due to the weight of the pipeline…


  • HSM Rolls Out Topside for ONE-Dyas’ Offshore Wind-Powered Gas Platform

    HSM Offshore Energy has rolled out the topside for ONE-Dyas’ N05-A platform, which, once fully constructed, will be the first electrified gas production platform in the North Sea that runs completely on offshore wind power. HSM reached the milestone at its yard in Schiedam, the Netherlands, merely two days after the successful lift of the…