The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, in partnership with the North East Combined Authority, is investing £2.1 million in a new offshore wind cable testing rig at its facilities in Blyth in North East England. Funded by the North East Combined Authority, the investment will allow ORE Catapul
U.S.-headquartered oilfield services player Halliburton has signed a framework agreement with UK-headquartered energy giant Shell for the provision of umbilical-less tubing hanger installation and retrieval services using its Remote Operated Control System (ROCS) technology. Halliburton describes RO
U.S.-based developer of subsea autonomous robotic systems and software Nauticus Robotics is planning to carry out testing of two of its Aquanaut autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) at the Advanced Ocean Systems (AOS) lake facility in Florida throughout the fall and winter months. The first robot w
Norway’s technology company ECOnnect Energy has picked up two preliminary front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) deals for its modular regasification (regas) solution, said to be designed for faster delivery and be more cost-efficient than traditional floating storage and regasification units (FSRU
Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri has launched its first underwater drone system for the protection of critical underwater infrastructure in both civil needs and defense and security applications. The DEEP platform consists of a network of underwater sensors for early warning, a command and con
A prototype of a floating wind platform integrated with an aquaculture system, developed under the European project AquaWind, was towed and installed at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) test site on 18 October. The prototype combines the W2Power (Wind to Power) twin-turbine floati
Malaysia’s Velesto Energy is setting the stage to cut development costs for operators by launching an integrated offshore model with ICON Engineering to deliver rig-installed wellhead platforms (RIWHPs) for offshore oil and gas field developments in Malaysian waters.
Japanese classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (better known as ClassNK) has given a technology qualification (TQ) certificate for a component of South Korean shipbuilding giant Samsung Heavy Industries’ (SHI) autonomous navigation solution. As disclosed, the TQ—which is issued for solutions ba
UK’s national innovation agency Innovate UK has awarded a £750,000 (approximately €861,630) grant to a Wiltshire-based company to help advance the technology readiness and performance of its ‘sea snake’ wave energy converter (WEC) and pave the way for future sea trials at the Welsh Marine Energy Tes
Jan De Nul has launched its first XL cable-laying vessel (CLV), Fleeming Jenkin, with the final vessel construction phase now starting, including sea trials. Jan De Nul announced in October 2023 that it had placed an order for Fleeming Jenkin at China’s CMHI Haimen shipyard, followed by an order for
New Zealand-based electric hydrofoiling technology company Vessev has unveiled its brand-new podded electric propulsion system engineered to ‘improve’ a vessel’s overall energy efficiency. According to Vessev, the solution, which has been dubbed the VS–Drive, is a submersible motor that combines act
DeepOcean as the project owner and its five partners have launched a joint industry project to commercialize an innovative subsea flowline heating technology designed to reduce manufacturing and installation costs by up to 35% and carbon emissions by 30% through the separation of pipeline and heatin
The global expansion of offshore wind energy continues unabated. New wind farms are being built at ever greater distances from the coast and under increasingly demanding conditions. As these projects grow, so do the requirements for construction and operation, as well as the need for temporary, flex
UK’s Forum Energy Technologies (FET) has secured an order from Nigerian oil & gas company Marine Platforms (MPL) for the delivery of two of its new generation work-class remotely operated vehicles (WROVs). The contract secured by FET’s Subsea product line marks the first sale of the XLX EVO III, whi
