Offshore engineering

Published:  06 March, 2024 Enerpac has announced it is exhibiting the latest tools and systems developments helping overcome the Supply Chain failures plaguing the wind industry, on stand 3-E93 at Wind Europe 2024. The company says global sourcing of wind turbine components is highlighting fabrication inconsistencies as a major cause of project delays and budget…

Published:  06 March, 2024 COWI, a leading international engineering consulting group, has announced it has been awarded a contract by Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), a joint venture involving DEME, Qair and Aspiravi, with a focus on Scottish offshore wind development. Under the contract, COWI will conduct a Pre-FEED study for TWP’s Ayre and Bowdun offshore…

Mar 5, 2024 (Image: OceanSTAR Marine & Offshore Investment Pte. Ltd.) Classification society ABS said it has granted an approval in principle (AIP) to OceanSTAR Marine & Offshore Investment Pte. Ltd., for its newbuild floating storage and offloading (FSO) design. The OceanSTAR FSO-01 is a shipshape hull design specifically developed to cater to midsize FSOs…

Perenco Rio del Rey, one of Perenco’s Cameroon subsidiaries, has started a five well development drilling campaign on the Kita Eden field, in the northern section of the Rio del Rey Basin, offshore Cameroon. As a result of its challenging shallow waters, 4 meters deep, and strong currents, no drilling has taken place in this…

Mar 5, 2024 (Credit: Equinor) Oslo-listed company Multiconsult has signed call-off option with Equinor for the grid connection providing electrification of Hammerfest LNG (HLNG) as part of the Snøhvit Future project. The call-off includes management assistance and follow-on engineering for the construction and commissioning phase of the project. The contract value to Multiconsult is estimated…

A groundbreaking ocean energy project, which has combined wave power with subsea energy storage to power subsea equipment, has now completed a 12-month test program at sea and will end this spring. The $2.5 million (£2 million) Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP) project connected the Blue X wave energy converter – built by Edinburgh company…

International engineering firm COWI has been awarded a contract by Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) –  a joint venture involving DEME, Qair and Aspiravi – to provide Pree-FEED study for Ayre and Bowdun offshore wind projects in Scotland. Under the contract, COWI will conduct a Pre- Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study for TWP’s Ayre and Bowdun…

Feb 29, 2024 (Credit: Ørsted / Photo by Lester Hsu) All 111 offshore wind turbines, forming Greater Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind farms, have been installed offshore Taiwan. The developer behind the projects, Danish energy giant Ørsted, informed about the milestone in a social media post shared on February 29, 2024. The Greater Changhua…

Feb 29, 2024 Maciej Jozwiak joins GLO Marine as its new Technical and Green Transition Manager, bringing to the comapny more than six years of engineering project management at DAMEN and more than nine years as senior approval engineer at DNV’s Oslo Headquarters. Image courtesy GLO Marine Maciej Jozwiak joined the GLO Marine team, with…

Feb 29, 2024 Maciej Jozwiak joins GLO Marine as its new Technical and Green Transition Manager, bringing to the comapny more than six years of engineering project management at DAMEN and more than nine years as senior approval engineer at DNV’s Oslo Headquarters. Image courtesy GLO Marine Maciej Jozwiak joined the GLO Marine team, with…