Van Oord has secured a 640 MW Yunlin offshore wind contract in Taiwan, worth approximately EUR 500 million. Van Oord is responsible for the design, manufacturing and installation of the eighty foundations for the Yunlin offshore wind project being developed by wpd. Preparations for the wind farm, wh
Swedish developer Minesto has welcomed Welsh Minister Ken Skates who received an update on the company’s tidal energy operations in Wales.
The SmartBay Observatory in Galway Bay has been brought ashore for maintenance. Last week Ocean Crest Marine with diver Mark Kerrigan prepared the Observatory for recovery. The underwater observatory, located 1.5 km off the coast of Spiddal, has been continuously monitoring the underwater environmen
Clinton Marine Survey has been recently awarded a framework agreement by Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA), for the service of multibeam echo sounder (MBES) hydrographic surveys on Swedish shipping routes in the Baltic Sea. The framework contract covering 2017-2019 has a possible extension one y
Marine consultancy, ABPmer has appointed Paul Clement as oceanographic survey manager. Clement has over a decade’s experience within the survey industry, 5 years of which in senior roles as survey manager and head of hydrography, responsible for survey teams providing hydrographic and geophysical su
Maria Caulfield MP for Lewes has officially opened Rampion’s Operations and Maintenance base located at Newhaven Port’s East Quay within the Newhaven Enterprise Zone.
The SmartBay Observatory in Ireland’s Galway Bay is being retrieved this week for essential onshore maintenance.
Ørsted and its Race Bank project partners, Macquarie and Sumitomo, will hold an inauguration ceremony for the 573MW offshore wind farm in Grimsby, UK, on 13 June.
An ambitious new project dubbed DTOceanPlus, whose aim is to accelerate the commercialization of marine energy sector by developing an open source suite of design tools for ocean energy systems, has been set up with the EU blessing.
McDermott has been awarded a transportation and installation subcontract by PetroVietnam Technical Services Corporation (PTSC) for the Idemitsu Kosan Co. (IKC) Sao Vang and Dai Nguyet gas and condensate field developments in the Nam Con Son Basin, offshore Vietnam. The scope-of-work is expected to c
The jacket for TenneT’s BorWin3 HVDC platform has reached its final destination and been installed in the North Sea, nearly 130 kilometres off the German coast, Petrofac informed. Having been lifted and positioned in a water depth of approximately 40 meters, the jacket will now await the arrival of
Total and its partners have taken the final investment decision to launch the Zinia 2 deep offshore development in Block 17, offshore Angola. The Zinia 2 project will have a production capacity of 40,000 barrels per day (b/d), sustaining Pazflor field production, on stream since 2011. Zinia 2 is the
French company Sabella has been accepted to the acceleration program for French companies with an interest in Australian maritime market as it looks to develop tidal energy projects down under.
Petrofac’s engineering & production services (EPS) East division has secured a project support and engineering services contract with Husky Oil China. The three-year contract is in support of Husky’s Liuhua 29-1 gas field development project located offshore at the Pearl River Mouth Basin, South Chi
