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Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. (ESG), Panama City, Fla., hosted the keel authentication ceremony for the U.S. Coast Guard’s future Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC), USCGC Ingham (WMSM-917) on July 15. The vessel is the third in the new Heritage Class being built at Eastern’s Nelson Street shipyard. The keel authentication, also known as keel laying, represents the ceremonial start… Read More
In a unique concept, German energy giant RWE is exploring integrating floating solar technology into offshore wind farms to create more efficient use of ocean space for energy generation and an approach that could provide locations with lower wind speeds with a means to develop renewable energy. Collaborating with the Dutch-Norwegian start-up solar energy company… Read More
Venterra Group has acquired marine environmental consultancy INSPIRE Environmental, marking the former’s entry into the US offshore services market. INSPIRE was founded in 2015 by Drew Carey and Joe Germano and works to support clients in the offshore wind, ports and marine construction sectors by assessing the health of the seabed and the resources that… Read More
Sembcorp Marine Offshore Platforms has won an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for a gas topsides project offshore Australia. The unnamed client is said to be a major energy company. Sembcorp expects work on the topsides to take four years to complete. 07.18.2022 Source
US-based engineering and construction firm Fluor has received a contract from New Fortress Energy (NFE) for the engineering, procurement and fabrication management of the Fast LNG II export facility in the US Gulf of Mexico. The project will involve building a gas treating and liquefaction plant, which is planned to be placed on fixed offshore platforms. The… Read More
“Sadly, we have taken the ocean for granted and today we face what I would call an ocean emergency,” UN secretary-general António Guterres said at the opening of the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon on 27 June 2022. “We must turn the tide.” Ocean heating and acidification, sea-level rise and greenhouse gas concentrations all hit… Read More
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will conduct a regional environmental review of six lease areas offshore New York and New Jersey in the New York Bight. Leases for these six areas were awarded through BOEM’s February 2022 auction that brought in over $4.3 billion, a record amount for any U.S. offshore renewable or… Read More
For the second time in 18 months, offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling is reporting that it has reached terms with creditors to refinance the company. The heavily-leveraged company announce that agreements in principle have been reached with most of the secured creditors to extend the majority of secured debt to 2025. Borr has been saddled… Read More
As global industry wrestles with the challenges of delivering the energy transition, significant attention has been focused on the production of cleaner energy from renewable sources to fuel sweeping decarbonization efforts. However, if any net zero or global warming targets are to be met, we also need to factor in how to make current practices… Read More
Maersk Supply Service is due to install the wind turbines at the Beacon Wind farm off the U.S. East Coast, for a joint venture between Equinor and bp. The installation of Beacon Wind is expected to start in 2028. In March 2022, Maersk Supply Service ordered a newbuild Wind Installation Vessel (WIV), the first project… Read More
One of the technologies that are being actively explored seeks to combine offshore wind farms with the production of hydrogen. In the latest development, Germany’s energy giant RWE announced working with its partners it plans to explore the production of hydrogen at sea linked to one of the offshore wind farms it has slated for… Read More
Olympic contracts two firm Construction Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) and two options at Ulstein Verft. The vessels have hybrid battery propulsion and are prepared for methanol fuel to enable zero emissions. They are based on the ULSTEIN SX222 design with TWIN X-STERN from Ulstein Design & Solutions AS. Les på norsk Norway-based Olympic has a fleet that… Read More
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will conduct a regional environmental review of the six New York Bight offshore lease areas offshore New York and New Jersey. Leases for these six areas were awarded through BOEM’s February 2022 auction that brought in over $4.3 billion, a record for any U.S. offshore renewable or conventional energy lease… Read More
We are 132 days into Vladimir Putin’s brutal and increasingly bloody war in Ukraine. The conflict has turned old energy norms on their head, especially in Europe, as nations frantically search for ways to quickly wean themselves off Putin’s dirty and politically untouchable gas. The oil and gas lobby has been quick to argue that… Read More
RHODE ISLAND — Gov. Dan McKee on Wednesday signed a bill into law requiring Rhode Island to expand its off shore wind energy usage. The new law requires a market-competitive procurement for between 600 and 1,000 mega-watts of newly-developed offshore wind capacity. The state’s primary utility company, Rhode Island Energy, must issue the procurement no… Read More