Siem Offshore has secured a medium-term contract for one of its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels to be deployed on an offshore wind project in East Asia. Under the contract, AHTS Siem Topaz will perform services for Helix Robotics Solutions in Taiwan. The work is set to commence this month
Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group has reported that 2022 was its best year ever in terms of financial results as its profits and cash generation had grown by over 50 per cent. For 2022, Prysmian’s adjusted EBITDA amounted to €1,488 million, representing a +52.5 per cent growth compared to 2021, w
DEME Group’s subsidiary G-tec has signed a multi-year charter agreement with Irish Mainport Holdings for its DP2 survey vessel Mainport Geo, following growing demand from the offshore wind industry. G-tec said that the new vessel will enable it to further enhance its site investigation techniques. T
Jan De Nul, Tractebel, and DEME have jointly developed a new offshore floating solar technology, said to be capable of operating in harsh marine conditions and in combination with offshore wind farms.
French transmission system operator RTE Réseau de Transport d’Electricité has started work to connect the country’s first floating offshore wind farm to the national grid. The laying of the export cable has started to connect the Eoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) wind farm in the Mediterr
German and Belgium transmission system operators (TSOs), 50Hertz and Elia, have issued a tender for offshore unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey, identification, and clearance campaign in the cable installation corridor(s) in the Baltic and North Seas. Since this joint procurement involves different co
After filing the documents for the public planning procedure for the section of the BorWin4 offshore grid connection that lies in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in 2021, German transmission system operator Amprion has now announced that the approval process at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographi
Fugro and Gardline have been awarded a contract to carry out preliminary geotechnical investigations for the future offshore wind farms in the Danish North Sea, Kattegat, and Danish Baltic Sea. The tender, which was published by the Danish transmission operator (TSO) Energinet, was divided into two
With the global oil and gas industry’s income skyrocketing to nearly $4 trillion in 2022, many are of the opinion that this sector holds the purse strings. Will it tighten or loosen them to invest a considerable chunk in the clean energy transition?
Subsea7, Siem Offshore, and Kongsberg Maritime have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly look at optimisation of marine operations for floating wind projects. The main objective of the study is to identify gaps in capabilities of existing marine operation methodologies and equipment, to e
TenneT has selected NKT and Prysmian to install five 525 kV XLPE HVDC cable connections for grid projects which will link new Dutch offshore wind farms to the national grid. TenneT’s next-generation, 2 GW grid connections in the Netherlands are scheduled to be completed between 2028 and 2030. NKT wi
Oil and gas majors Shell and TotalEnergies have prequalified for an offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.
Subsea 7 has reported an order intake of over $7 billion for the full year of 2022, representing the highest order intake since 2013, with a backlog of over $9 billion, said to have resulted in high revenue visibility for 2024 and beyond. In 2022, Subsea 7 reported revenue of $5.1 billion, which is
Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, who recently filed a Marine Licence application for their 500 MW Green Volt floating wind farm in Scotland, have now submitted a Scoping Report for the 1.4 GW Cenos floating offshore wind farm to Marine Scotland. The developers have submitted leasing applications for b
