Survey activities are ramping up at Ocean Winds’ Caledonia offshore wind farm site with a pair of floating LiDAR devices soon to be deployed in the Scottish waters. The wind farm’s developer, Ocean Winds, said it is laying the groundwork for its comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), a
UK company Global OTEC has started testing the scaled design of an ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) platform as part of the EU-funded PLOTEC project.
A lot of the money that was scheduled to go into the North Sea is being switched to the U.S. where oil and gas investments are booming.
Wind propulsion specialist Airseas has achieved an important technical milestone in the sea trials of its Seawing system by successfully validating traction flights on Louis Dreyfus Armateurs’ vessel Ville de Bordeaux. Airseas said that the company has now demonstrated that the wind propulsion syste
Van Oord has set a new world record by carrying out subsea rock installation works in a water depth of 1,364 meters, a distance said to be comparable to almost five times the length of the Eiffel Tower. The activities were conducted by the company’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes at the Sangomar f
Floating solar developer SolarDuck has opened an office in Norway, which will serve as the company’s global business development center.
A maritime consortium involving NYK Line, IHI Power Systems, Nihon Shipyard, Japan Engine Corporation and Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) has announced that the world’s first four-stroke ammonia-fueled (NH3-fueled) engine has completed a land-based test for the stable combustion of fuel ammonia having
Wild Rose Leader, an LNG-fueled pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) owned by Japanese shipping company NYK, has taken part in the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation at the port of Nagoya. Delivered in April 2023, Wild Rose Leader is NYK’s fourth LNG PCTC and the second 7,000-CEU car carrier bu
Hengli Shipbuilding (Dalian) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Hengli Heavy Industry Group, has announced that it has won a major newbuilding contract with Haixing Shipping, a domestic shipowner, for four 82,000 deadweight ton (DWT) bulk carriers. The company said that the order officially marks the yard’s
Maersk’s container terminal operating arm APM Terminals has pledged a €962 million ($1 billion) investment in its Brazilian operations up to 2026.
Neptune Energy has awarded a long-term contract for drilling activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) to Tenaris.
Solstad Offshore’s construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Pacific has secured a new contract with Italian cabling giant Prysmian for work within renewable energy. Prysmian Powerlink awarded Solstad with a new seven-year contract for the CSV. The contract is firm until 31 December 2030. In additio
Japanese shipping company NYK has signed long-term charter contracts for four new liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers with EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg (EnBW), a major German energy company.
BSEE has looked into the circumstances surrounding injuries two workers suffered during a skillet installation at an offshore platform.
