Ignitis Renewables has awarded Fugro a contract to conduct a geophysical survey at Lithuania’s first offshore wind farm site. In October, Ignitis Renewables, together with Ocean Winds, was confirmed as the winner of Lithuania’s first offshore wind tender after the joint venture was selected in the a
Buchan Offshore Wind, a consortium comprising BayWa r.e., Elicio, and BW Ideol, has completed offshore site investigations for the 1 GW floating wind farm in Scotland. Ocean Infinity, who commenced the surveying process for Buchan Offshore Wind in April this year, used the Normand Superior vessel to
Nexans has started the pull-in of the first of two export cables at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland. The offshore export cables were manufactured by Nexans at its factory in Halden under a contract signed with Ocean Winds in 2021. The Nexans Skaggerak and the Nexan
GR Production Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GR Engineering Services, has secured a contract with INPEX Operations Australia to provide operations and maintenance support services to the Ichthys LNG upstream and downstream facilities. The three-year contract has an estimated value of $28 mil
Preparatory survey work on four new floating offshore wind farms has been completed in the North Sea. Geophysical survey work was completed on BlueFloatEnergy and Renantis Partnership’s ScotWind projects, namely the 900 MW Broadshore project, located 50 kilometers north of Fraserburgh, and the 1.2 G
LNG production and maritime transportation logistics provider Seaside LNG has entered into a term bunkering agreement with Carnival Corporation & plc to fuel Carnival Jubilee, the first LNG-powered cruise ship to call Galveston, Texas its homeport. Seaside LNG explained that its barge Clean Jacksonv
Trelleborg’s Jonathan Petit sheds light on the reasons why industry standards need to keep pace with innovation for reeling operations.
Maritime fuel supplier Peninsula has marked the beginning of the operation of its newest LNG supply vessel Levante LNG in the Mediterranean. The 12,500 cubic meter vessel arrived at the Mediterranean at the end of September and is now fully operational in the Strait of Gibraltar and Western Mediterr
Danish company Wavepiston has started the final stage of installation of its full-scale wave energy system for desalination and power production offshore Canary Islands.
French LNG containment specialist GTT has signed a technical service agreement with the ship repair unit of Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding, a part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). The agreement was signed on November 1, 2023, by Adnan Ezzerhouni, General Manager of GTT China, and Sun Shu
A geotechnical survey campaign has been completed at the Ossian floating offshore wind farm site in Scotland. Set to be located across 858 square kilometers of seabed off the east coast of Scotland, the project is a joint venture between SSE Renewables, Marubeni, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partne
Switzerland-based technology company ABB and the US cruise company Carnival Corporation have signed a long-term partnership agreement that will cover service for vessels powered by the Azipod XO electric propulsion system.
Sonardyne, working with XOCEAN’s uncrewed surface vehicles (USV), has delivered remote acoustic data harvesting services to Shell at its Ormen Lange gas field in the Norwegian Sea that does not have conventional surface operation platforms. Without surface platforms, acoustic data from the subsea se
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has issued a new Code of Practice with the aim of improving subsea power cable installation in offshore wind by preventing cable failure and thus enabling savings for the offshore wind industry. The Code of Practice for Offshore Cable Laying in
