McDermott has won a pre front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from Tata Steel B.V. for the Enhancing Value by Emissions Reuse and Emission Storage (EVEREST) Project. Specifically, Tata Steel has launched the preparatory plans for a project to capture CO2 from its blast furnaces in IJmuiden, t
The European Commission has presented the EU Strategy on Offshore Renewable Energy which sets a goal of reaching 40 GW of installed capacity for ocean energy, and other emerging technologies like floating wind and solar, by 2050.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has manufactured a wind turbine blade made of thermoplastic resin that can be recycled, and has now demonstrated its feasibility and structural integrity in partnership with Arkema Inc of Pennsylvania. This has been done wit
Danish company Crestwing has completed the second offshore testing campaign on its Tordenskiold wave energy device prototype.
Dutch-based Mammoet has secured a steel catenary riser (SCR) and umbilical pull-in contract from Subsea 7. The scope of work included in this contract is for engineering, procurement, fabrication and offshore pull-in operations. The SCR and umbilical pull-in operations will take place at Mississippi
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has released a £12 billion plan for a ‘green industrial revolution’ that is expected to support up to 250,000 jobs.
Oil and gas major Shell has partnered with marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity to combine expertise and assets to execute multiclient seep hunting projects. The companies believe that combination of Shell’s specialist seep hunting expertise and Ocean Infinity’s ‘Armada’ fleet of robotic ships, will
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has invited the offshore wind sector to sign up to a world-first data collection platform that aims to vastly reduce subsea cable failures. ELECTRODE will track cable failure trends and service downtime, as well as the effectiveness of current methods of
The Edinburgh-based start-up Mocean Energy has secured a major investment to advance the design of its Blue Star wave energy device, and drive its adoption in subsea oil and gas sector.
Classification and technical advisory body ABS has recently published the ‘Guide for Subsea Mining’. The guide details Class requirements for the design, construction, installation as well as survey of mobile offshore mining units. It comes as global interest in resources on the sea floor grows to s
Singapore-based startup F-drones has carried out the world’s first commercial drone delivery at night to a vessel in Singapore. The operation was carried out on November 1, 2020. The drone navigated a busy anchorage, helping deliver a critical part for Wilhelmsen to Berge Sarstein, a vessel owned by
Marine industry experts from Portugal and Canada are staging a special ‘blue economy’ conference to spark transatlantic business growth.
Subsurface Imaging, part of CGG’s Geoscience division, has secured two large-scale seismic reprocessing contracts from PTTEP. Over the course of the next year, CGG, through its offices in Kuala Lumpur, will conduct merged reprocessing of surveys from many vintages, including towed-streamer as well a
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has secured a contract for DeepStar project to study the deployment and operational requirements of using its PB3 PowerBuoy to provide remotely controllable zero-carbon power for deepwater subsea oil production.
