UK’s Enshore Subsea and Belgian Herbosch-Kiere have partnered to purchase a 25-year-old cable-laying vessel (CLV) in a newly created joint venture. Herbosch-Kiere and Enshore Subsea have purchased the 1999-built, 88-meter-long Topaz Installer vessel, set to be renamed CMOS Installer. The vessel is m
Italy’s Ministry of Environment and Energy Security has given its approval for the Adriatic Link submarine power line, set to facilitate the integration of renewable sources and support energy transition goals in Italy. The Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security authorized, through a de
Norwegian energy services company AGR has secured a long-term contract for the provision of blowout and well control studies and associated services to Vår Energi’s activities on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Under the framework agreement, AGR is set to provide services within blowout conti
France-based start-up HelioRec has established a partnership with EMP ROTOMOULAGE, a company dedicated to rotational molding techniques, with the aim of spearheading the production of floating solar systems in the Bretagne region. HelioRec, who has developed a floating solar system whose compact des
Energy major Shell has joined the Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP) collaborative project which is powering subsea equipment off the coast of Orkney, Scotland, through a combination of wave power and subsea energy storage. The £2 million demonstrator initiative, nearing 12 months in the water, has c
A site located within Malta’s territorial waters has been identified as the potential location for the country’s first grid-connected floating solar project, Maltese Minister for Environment, Energy and Enterprise Miriam Dalli announced. A preliminary market consultation (PMC) has been launched to a
Singapore-headquartered New Energy Capital Asia and Thailand-based UMC Metals have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 1.6MWp solar project in Thailand featuring both floating and ground-mounted solar installations. New Energy Capital Asia is a provider of corporate and industrial solar e
According to Erwin Coolen, Director of ECHT, we need Mariparks, which are offshore business areas, and multiuse to reach energy, food and nature transitions that are ongoing on the North Sea. Together with Nathalie Scheidegger, Project Leader Sustainable Blue Economy, Netherlands’ Ministry of Agricu
The construction of the £24 million substation for the Morlais tidal stream energy project has been completed and the substation has been delivered to site owner Menter Môn Morlais. Civil engineering firm Jones Bros has handed over the substation to Menter Môn Morlais in a move said to signal the su
Taiwanese offshore geophysical and geotechnical investigation company PDE Offshore Corporation is carrying out the conversion of its new geotechnical vessel to service the local offshore wind market. The Geo Power geotechnical vessel is now under conversion work and will join the fleet in mid-2024 t
UK subsea energy provider Forum Energy Technologies (FET) has appointed the first energy transition business development manager within its subsea business with the aim to help operators achieve carbon emission improvements. Martin Thomson, experienced in both subsea and offshore wind sectors, will
The Viking Link carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the UK has entered the front-end engineering design (FEED) phase with the award of the contract to Technip Energies. Viking CCS, previously known as V Net Zero, is the Humber-based CO2 transportation and storage network led by UK oil and ga
San Bernardino Ocean Power Corporation (SBOPC), an affiliate of Energies PH, has awarded the UK’s Inyanga Marine Energy Group with a contract to build Southeast Asia’s first-ever tidal power generation plant. The project will be located at the remote Capul Island of Northern Samar in the Philippines
Offshore cable operations have been paused for the Greenlink interconnector that will link Ireland and Wales due to poor weather and for maintenance and upgrades on the construction vessel. The Greenlink Interconnector will link the southeast of Ireland, from Great Island, County Wexford to South-we
