Sunshine Coast Council has informed that the submarine cable landing station at Maroochydore has been completed. The cable landing station will house the connection point for the international submarine cable, connecting Australia and Asia, with landside communication networks and is a vital piece o
GE has approved ExxonMobil’s Mobil SHCTM Gear 320 WT advanced turbine gear oil for use in all of its wind turbines worldwide. This approval applies to all of the more than 50,000 GE wind turbines in operation today, ExxonMobil said. GE’s lubricant approval process includes more than 300 itemized tes
Marine Energy Wales has announced that phase 1 of its Marine Energy Test Area (META) project is officially open for business. The announcement was made during a launch event held at Pembroke Port and marks a significant step in the development of the project. With eight pre-consented sites located i
Ørsted has officially opened its expanded East Coast Hub at the Port of Grimsby, the UK. Guest of honor, Melanie Onn MP for Great Grimsby unveiled a plaque at the site, as part of the official opening ceremony. Constructed by local firm Hobson and Porter, the site is now the world’s largest offshore
Ørsted has officially opened its expanded East Coast Hub at the Port of Grimsby, the UK. Guest of honor, Melanie Onn MP for Great Grimsby unveiled a plaque at the site, as part of the official opening ceremony. Constructed by local firm Hobson and Porter, the site is now the world’s largest offshore
SAExploration has been awarded a new shallow-water ocean-bottom marine project in the Asia Pacific region for a major national oil company. The contract is valued at approximately $28 million, the company informed. Services to be provided will include data acquisition utilizing remotely operated veh
A consortium of partners led by Principle Power has been awarded a USD 3.6 million grant from the U.S Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop, validate and operate DIGIFLOAT, the world’s first digital twin software tailored to floating offshore wind applic
i-Tech 7, Subsea 7’s Life of Field business unit, has completed a subsea decommissioning and abandonment project for LLOG Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. LLOG Exploration was seeking better ways to flush three flowlines and two umbilicals as part of the work scope to abandon the G1 115 platform.
A research project to make the island of Texel in the Netherlands sustainable through wave energy has now reached the planning stage for the installation of a wave energy farm prototype. Invented by Erwin Croughs, the Slow Mill wave pilot project aims to install five or six Slow Mills and create a w
Jadestone Energy has completed installation of replacement subsea umbilical cables at the Montara complex, offshore Australia. The umbilical cables are an essential part of the control system of the Montara complex subsea wells, providing electrical power and control signals to the subsea well-heads
Allseas Group has been awarded gas export pipeline contract for the Barossa project, offshore Australia. The contract represents another big step towards a Final Investment Decision planned for early next year, Santos, a stake holder in the project, informed. Allseas’ contract includes the engineeri
Hydratight has installed two MORSEAL enclosure clamps on the outer diameter of a riser connected to the Shell Nelson platform in the Nelson field located 80 kilometers north east of Aberdeen. These are the first MORSEAL installations for Shell in the North Sea. The MORSEAL clamps have been used to s
ALE has been awarded a steel catenary riser (SCR) and umbilical pull-in contract by Subsea 7 USA. The scope of work included in the contract is for engineering, procurement, fabrication and offshore pull-in operations. ALE will start the engineering phase of this project immediately with offshore op
DeepOcean, on behalf of Hengtong Group, has completed export cable installation for the first floating wind farm project in the Atlantic Ocean. This marks DeepOcean’s first project for the floating offshore wind industry. The scope of work included project management, engineering and execution of al
