Offshore engineering

FPSO leasing company BW Offshore has made progress on the topside module integration for the newbuild floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit BW Opal, that will be deployed at Santos’ Barossa gas project, offshore Australia. The teams are keeping busy to complete construction of the topside modules in Dyna-Mac and the turret modules in…

Feb 9, 2024 © nattapon7 / Adobe Stock China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has put into operation the first domestically developed subsea Xmas tree. CNOOC’s subsea Xmas tree is 3.5 meters long, 3.2 meters wide and 3 meters high, with an overall weight of nearly 22 tons. It is a piece of equipment used…

Feb 9, 2024 © Julian / Adobe Stock CRP Subsea, an AIS company, has been awarded a ‘sizable’ contract from a major engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) company for ultra-deepwater oilfield development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The contract entails the provision of vortex induced vibration (VIV) suppression strakes and buoyancy modules for…

Feb 9, 2024 (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy) The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) and Innovation Fund Denmark have announced an intention to release a $4.2 million funding opportunity to advance floating offshore wind energy systems. The announcement builds on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between DOE, the Denmark Ministry…

A consortium, led by Toshiba and Aquatera, has been awarded $1.9 million UK government funding to design a pilot microgrid project that will be powered by wave energy for a remote island in Thailand. Aside from Toshiba Europe and Aquatera, the consortium also includes Eco Wave Power, Hitachi Energy, and teams from the University of…

US Forged Rings (USFR) has unveiled plans to invest $700 million to construct a state-of-the-art tower fabrication facility and a steel forging plant that would serve the U.S. offshore wind industry. The U.S.-based company will use these two facilities to fill a critical supply chain gap for offshore wind components in the U.S. and alleviate…

Published:  07 February, 2024 Acoustic Data, a global leader in multi-year wireless downhole data acquisition for the Oil & Gas and Underground Energy Storage industries,has announced a multi-million-dollar order from Iraq for its SonicGauge Wireless Monitoring Systems. The  company says the contract, awarded by a major oilfield service company, is a significant endorsement of Acoustic…

Published:  07 February, 2024 The 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) has been awarded to Denmark’s Henrik Stiesdal and Britain’s Andrew Garrad for their achievements in advancing the design, manufacture and deployment of high-performance wind turbines – developments which have enabled wind energy to make a material contribution to global electricity generation and deliver…

Feb 6, 2024 Morten Haug Emilsen (Credit: AGR) AGR, part of Oslo-listed marine consultancy ABL Group, has been awarded a long-term contract for the provision of blowout and well control studies and associated services to Vår Energi’s activities on the Norwegian continental shelf. Under the framework agreement, AGR will provide services within blowout contingency planning,…

Feb 5, 2024 As offshore wind power spreads globally, it’s widely acknowledged that the maturation of floating wind power platforms will exponentially increase the availability of resources, as a majority of the wind power lies outside the installation zone of fixed systems. Enter Gazelle Wind Power, which offers a compelling engineered solution and value proposition…