Germany’s leading wind industry associations have urged the German government to issue a tender for 1.5GW of available offshore grid capacity in the first quarter of 2019, and to increase the 2030 and 2035 expansion volumes. The associations, BWE, BWO, Stiftung OFFSHORE-WINDENERGIE, VDMA Power Syste
Ørsted has suspended the execution of contracts with Taiwan Cogeneration Corporation, China Steel Corporation (CSC) and Century Iron and Steel Industrial (CISI) for the developer’s offshore wind projects in Taiwan, Taiwanese media reports. OffshoreWIND.biz has contacted Ørsted to confirm this, with
Ørsted has suspended the execution of contracts with Taiwan Cogeneration Corporation, China Steel Corporation (CSC) and Century Iron and Steel Industrial (CISI) for the developer’s offshore wind projects in Taiwan, Taiwanese media reports. OffshoreWIND.biz has contacted Ørsted to confirm this, with
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, held last week the pre-construction meeting regarding the Carolina Beach and Kure Beach Coastal Storm Damage Reduction project. According to the Carolina Beach Councilman Steve Shuttleworth, the meeting took place Wednesday, January 16, at the U
Oceaneering has recently secured three subsea umbilical contracts valued in excess of $80 million in total. The contracts, with undisclosed international operators, are to supply developments in the Mediterranean Sea, the North Sea and the South China Sea. Two contracts are for electro-hydraulic, st
Australia’s Santos will make a final investment decision for its Dorado discovery located in WA-437-P offshore Australia in late 2020.
Hurricane Energy has encountered a problem during the hook-up stage of its Early Production System (EPS) development of the Lancaster field in the West of Shetland area.
Sandvik Materials Technology has received several orders for advanced tubes for the oil and gas industry. The contract has a combined value of about 1 billion SEK ($111 million), with the majority being for umbilical tubes. Orders were booked in the first quarter of 2019 and deliveries are scheduled
Shell has chosen subsea compression as a concept for the third phase of the Ormen Lange field development, located 140 kilometers north-west of Kristiansund, in the Norwegian Sea. Rich Denny, CEO of A / S Norske Shell said on Friday that Shell had evaluated a number of alternative concepts before op
Preston-based Submarine Manufacturing and Products (SMP) has recently signed a contract with a Far East Navy, as main contractor to supply a complete submarine rescue system package. SMP will design, manufacture, supply and integrate the complete systems into a newbuild vessel. In addition the compa
Italian Saipem has received two engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPIC) contracts from Saudi Aramco. According to Saipem’s statement, the contracts are worth $1.3 billion. The EPIC contracts are for the development of Berri and Marjan offshore fields. The contracts were awarde
Ulstein Verft has contracted Red Rock to deliver a 3D-motion compensated knuckle jib crane for the service operations vessel (SOV) ordered by Bernhard Schulte for the Merkur offshore wind farm. Red Rock also delivered cranes and davits for the two previous vessels, Windea La Cour and Windea Leibniz,
Australia’s UGL, a unit of CIMIC Group, has won contracts on the Chevron-operated Gorgon and Wheatstone liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects. The contracts are for maintenance and turnaround services at the LNG facilities located in Western Australia. UGL said in a statement on Friday that, u
Kongsberg Maritime has secured an order from Swire Seabed for a HUGIN autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) configured for commercial survey applications. The Swire Seabed HUGIN AUV system is rated to 4500 meters and equipped with Kongsberg Maritime’s HISAS 1032 Synthetic Aperture Sonar and EM2040 mul
