Offshore engineering

Jan 3, 2024 (Credit: Ocean Installer) Ocean Installer, in consortium with Oceaneering, has secured a significant contract from TotalEnergies EP Angola and its Partners of Block 17 on Girassol (FPSO) life extension project offshore Angola. Ocean Installer will manage, engineer, and execute the project. The scope includes recovery of the old risers, transportation and installation…

The Viking Link, said to be the world’s longest land and subsea electricity interconnector, became operational and started transporting power between the UK and Denmark. The $2.15 billion (£1.7 billion) link stretches for 475 miles between UK and Denmark, and has the capacity of 1.4 GW. The link connects Bicker Fen substation in UK’s Lincolnshire…

Published:  03 January, 2024 Precise and reliable pressure and temperature measurement is a critical requirement across a wide range of process applications such as the oil and gas energy industries, along with water & wastewater supply, chemicals, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning. The use of pressure instruments across these types of applications is increasing and coupled…

Published:  02 January, 2024 EnerMechhas announced its training centre in Aberdeen has achieved two additional OPITO global training accreditations, allowing the business to develop the skills and competencies of personnel working in lifting operations in any industry around the world. The company’s dedicated facility was originally established to upskill the North Sea’s offshore workforce. It…

Dec 22, 2023 Artist’s impression of V236-15.0 MW wind turbine (Credit: Vestas) The Dutch wind farm developer Ecowende, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has placed an order for 52 offshore wind turbines from Vestas, each rated at 15MW, for its Hollandse Kust (west) site VI. Once installed, Vestas will service the 760 MW…

European Union’s Horizon program has approved a $4.4 million grant for SHY project, which will develop a new power take-off (PTO) system with advanced control strategy, aimed at reducing the cost of wave energy. SHY project, short for Seawater Hydraulic PTO using dynamic passive controller for wave energy converters, is a collaborative project whose aim…

Orsted said on Wednesday it had made a final investment decision on the Hornsea 3 project off Britain’s coast, indicating it will proceed with what will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The project, which will have capacity to power more than 3.3 million UK homes and is expected to cost 70-75 billion Danish…

The WECHULL+ project, co-ordinated by RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, has received a $2.7 million grant from the European Union to develop novel floating structures based on high-performance concrete for offshore renewable energy sector. The project, funded by the EU Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) program, will develop and test new floating structures in an…

Hitachi Energy and Petrofac have secured a second project under a $14 billion, multi-year framework agreement with the Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO) Tennet to expand offshore wind capacity in the North Sea. This second contract is for Nederwiek 1, a Dutch transmission station which forms part of TenneT’s landmark 2GW program. Under the terms…