Offshore engineering

Published:  21 February, 2024 Haewoori Offshore Wind 2 (500MW) and 3 (500MW), Copenhagen Infrastructure Partner’s floating offshore wind projects off the coast of Ulsan, Korea have awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Aker Solutions and Principle Power for the floating foundations. As part of the scope, Aker Solutions will coordinate the design…

Feb 19, 2024 (Credit: Kanfa) Brazilian state-run oil and gas company Petrobras has hired Kanfa, a fully-owned subsidiary of Technip Energies, to conduct a carbon capture and storage (CCS) study for its offshore assets. With the study, Petrobras aims to get a thorough understanding of the technology and get a confirmation that it is technically…

Seatrium has set out plans to start working on the third 2 GW High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) electrical transmission system for offshore wind farms in the Netherlands in mid-2024. Seatrium received notification from the Dutch state-owned electric grid company TenneT for the beginning of the works, where Seatrium’s scope covers the engineering, procurement, construction,…

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has completed the design, supply, and commissioning of a remote operation and monitoring system for the offshore wind turbines and onshore facilities at the Ishikari Bay New Port Offshore Wind Farm. Supplied through its subsidiary Yokogawa Solution Service Corporation, Yokogawa’s remote operation and monitoring system supplied includes a video system based on…

Oilfield services company TechnipFMC has been awarded a ‘substantial contract’ by Shell for the supply of subsea production systems for Sparta development in the Gulf of Mexico. This will be the first integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (iEPCI) project to use high-pressure subsea production systems rated up to 20,000 psi (20K), according to TechnipFMC.…

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partner (CIP) has awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Aker Solutions and Principle Power for floating offshore wind projects in South Korea. Haewoori floating offshore wind 2 and 3 projects, each rated at 500 MW, are located off the coast of Ulsan. As part of the scope, Aker Solutions will…

Italian cable maker and installation services provider Prysmian Group has secured three contracts with German transmission system operator Amprion worth around $5 billion, for two offshore grid connection systems – BalWin1 and BalWin2 – and the underground cable project DC34. The contracts follow the selection of Prysmian as preferred bidder in August 2023. The package…

Published:  14 February, 2024 HonuWorx has announced it has developed and tested its new cloud-based solution for controlling and supervising remote robotic systems – “HonuMove”, with the support of an Offshore Wind Growth Partnership Development Grant. Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are vital to the growth of the offshore wind sector and are used across the…

Published:  14 February, 2024 The engineering and infrastructure sector is developing at a rapid pace. There has been growth over the past decade, with the number of people working in engineering increasing from 5.4 million in 2010 to 5.7 million in 2021, with a peak of 6.3 million in 2019. PWE reports. On top of…

Oil and gas company Enauta has released a short video showing the installation of mooring lines and torpedo anchors, designed by London Marine Consultants (LMC), for the FPSO Atlanta II offshore Brazil. The moorings are installed in over 1500 meters of water depth offshore Brazil on behalf of Malaysian FPSO leasing firm Yinson Production and…