The global provider of energy data and intelligence TGS has announced the start of a wind, metocean, and environmental measurement campaign at the Utsira Nord offshore wind farm zone in Norway. The campaign’s first floating LiDAR buoy will be deployed in early June in the Utsira Nord zone to conduct
Low and zero-emission fuels supplier Titan and Carnival Corporation, one of the world’s largest cruise companies, have completed their first LNG bunker operation in the port of Kiel in Germany. According to Titan’s brief social media update, the operation was the first-ever LNG bunker delivery perfo
The Uldolmok Tidal Power Station in South Korea has completed two years of electricity generation, exploiting the tides of the Myeongnyang Strait at Jindo Island.
The final inter-array cable loadout has been completed for Equinor’s Hywind Tampen, the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm in operation. The remaining eleven kilometres of 630mm2 dynamic cabling including accessories were loaded onto the Normand Vision, a construction support vessel (CSV) f
Norwegian regulator has carried out an audit of management of materials handling and the working environment on one of Noble’s jack-up rigs.
German renewable energy company BayWa r.e. has officially inaugurated the Grafenwörth floating solar plant, the largest of its kind in Austria and Central Europe. The company revealed this milestone in a brief social media update on 17 May. The project was built earlier this year by BayWa r.e.’s Aus
Norwegian company Ocean Sun has started making design improvements to its floating solar units, based on the insights gained through real sea demonstration of the technology linked with offshore wind turbines in China.
French ferry operator Corsica Linea has awarded a ten-year Guaranteed Asset Performance (GAP) agreement to technology group Wärtsilä to ensure optimal performance of power systems onboard its new LNG-fueled RoPax vessel. The 206-metre-long ship named A Galeotta was built at the Visentini yard in Ita
Australia’s oil and gas company Karoon Energy has restarted production from assets connected to a floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel offshore Brazil, following maintenance work. Karoon shut-in Baúna production, including from the Patola field, on 28 March due to a loss of co
Belgium-based Marlinks has secured its first major contract in Taiwan for the cable health monitoring services of the export and inter-array cables of the 1,044 MW Hai Long offshore wind farm. The contract awarded covers the design, supply, installation, commissioning of monitoring hardware, and ong
BSEE has examined the circumstances surrounding four recent high-potential, near-miss tagline entanglements during offshore operations.
Survey activities are ramping up at Ocean Winds’ Caledonia offshore wind farm site with a pair of floating LiDAR devices soon to be deployed in the Scottish waters. The wind farm’s developer, Ocean Winds, said it is laying the groundwork for its comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), a
Wild Rose Leader, an LNG-fueled pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) owned by Japanese shipping company NYK, has taken part in the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation at the port of Nagoya. Delivered in April 2023, Wild Rose Leader is NYK’s fourth LNG PCTC and the second 7,000-CEU car carrier bu
BSEE has looked into the circumstances surrounding injuries two workers suffered during a skillet installation at an offshore platform.
