Bourbon Subsea Services installed a floating electrical hub (FEH) at the EolMed pilot floating wind farm site in France in Autumn 2023, the company revealed on January 9. The FEH will be connected to the project’s three floating wind turbines on one side and to the export cable on the other to enabl
France-headquartered CGG and Dutch C-Questra have signed a commercial cooperation agreement in carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS). “The purpose of the cooperation agreement is quite simply to go much faster. CGG contributes human and technological resources, while C-Questra implem
Tracerco has secured a million-dollar contract in the Gulf of Mexico, under which the company will deploy its pipeline inspection technology, Discovery, across a number of oil and gas platforms in the region. This new technology will be utilized by three leading U.S. energy companies, all of whom op
Norwegian energy major Equinor and global industrial gases and engineering company Linde have signed a project development agreement to work as partners on the H2M Eemshaven low-carbon hydrogen project in the Netherlands. Equinor’s H2M Eemshaven project aims to build a production facility in the Eem
The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has approved PGNiG Upstream Norway (PUN), part of Poland’s ORLEN Group, as operator and partner with Horisont Energi in the only CO2 storage located in the Barents Sea. Horisont Energi and PUN announced a sales purchase agreement on December 11, 2023, making PUN a li
A final investment decision (FID) has been taken to develop an innovative natural gas and CO2 separation and reinjection facility for the Mero field offshore Brazil, developed by the Libra Consortium and operated by Petrobras. The pilot unit, using a pioneer high-pressure subsea separation technolog
Kraken Robotics has completed a cable burial survey on behalf of Asso.subsea along the 16-kilometer export cable that runs from the Gode Wind 3 offshore substation to the Dolwin Kappa platform. The operation was conducted from the MSV Astrea, employing the advanced Sub-Bottom Imager™ (SBI). Kraken R
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, together with its consortium partner Van Oord, has been informed by Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between BP and Equinor, of the termination of the rock installation contract for the Empire Wind 2 offshore wind project which was set to commence in 2026. In 2022, th
Aker BP has teamed up with technology provider Vissim to adopt an upgraded oil spill detection solution across its key offshore installations. Set to be installed at Aker BP’s major facilities, including Valhall, Ula, Edvard Grieg, Ivar Aasen, Alvheim, and Skarv, this upgraded, radar-based oil spil
“A lot of people talk about digitalization, but digitalization is not a purpose in itself, but it can be an enabler to meet changing customer demands,” said Maaike de Rover, Program Manager Digitalization, Huisman. During the Huisman session at the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) 2023
PTTEP is ready to pool resources with Japan’s Inpex to undertake a study on carbon storage potential in the Northern Gulf of Thailand.
To combat climate change, the energy mix must shift from a mix that is dominated by fossil fuels, oil & gas, coal, to an energy mix that depends more on clean energy production methods. The good thing is that everyone is committed to achieving this goal. The challenge that comes with this is that a
Elmed, set to become the first direct current (DC) connection between Europe and North Africa, has secured €45 million in funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The €921 million project concerns the implementation of an HVDC link interconnecting Tunisia and Italy across the Strait of Sicil
TechnipFMC has secured a “major” integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (iEPCI) contract with Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras for a project offshore Brazil. TechnipFMC reported it had won the contract to deliver the Mero 3 HISEP project which uses subse
