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DEME Offshore, the leading offshore marine engineering company, and Havfram AS., the international offshore wind and subsea contractor, have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly offer construction services to the offshore wind farm sector in Norway. Both DEME Offshore and Havfram plan to play an important role in the upcoming Norwegian offshore wind… Read More
Installation of the 62 jacket foundations for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France is progressing steadily. To date, Van Oord has successfully completed the installation of 24 jacket foundations. Meanwhile, Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Aeolus is continuing with pre-piling works at the remaining foundation locations. Almost half of the wind farm foundation locations… Read More
Following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request to the California Energy Commission (CEC) to shoot for more “ambitious” climate goals, the regulator last week adopted a planning goal to develop 25 GW of offshore wind by 2045. In its latest report, Offshore Wind Energy Development off the California Coast, CEC said that the “preliminary planning goals are… Read More
Miguel Hernandez, formerly general manager of sales and marketing at MODEC, has been named senior vice president of offshore business development at ABS. In that role he is leading ABS’s global offshore services business, including in the FPSO, FPU and floating offshore wind sectors. Hernandez has more than 18 years of experience in the oil and gas… Read More
With passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which contains US$370 billion for climate and energy programs, policy experts are forecasting a big expansion in clean electricity generation. One source that’s poised for growth is offshore wind power. Today the U.S. has just two operating offshore wind farms, off of Rhode Island and North Carolina, with… Read More
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is taking the next step in the effort to build out the U.S. offshore wind energy sector. Under the Biden Administration, BOEM has moved aggressively to identify target areas and develop the leasing process for new offshore wind farms, including expansion of projects to the Pacific Coast… Read More
Crowley has appointed Bob Karl as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s new business unit, Crowley Wind Services. As Crowley elevates the scope of its offerings in wind energy, Karl will lead the company’s wind services team in the strategic development and expansion of services to support the emerging sector. The development… Read More
DEME’s DP2 offshore installation vessel ‘Neptune’ has successfully performed an offshore ground investigation campaign for Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2, which is located near Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland. SSE Renewables, the leading energy company that is developing the wind farm, chartered ‘Neptune’ for the geotechnical survey. Lucien Romagnoli, Business Unit Director Renewables, commented: “Neptune performed very well on a… Read More
Offshore energy services provider, PACC Offshore Services Holdings (“POSH” or the “Company”) has bolstered its service capabilities after signing an agreement to acquire the 119-metre long, DP-3 offshore construction vessel ‘BOA Deep C’ from BOA OCV AS. The vessel will be renamed ‘POSH Deep C’. The addition of this multipurpose Offshore Construction Vessel (“OCV”) is… Read More
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a state permit to construct the first freshwater, offshore wind turbine facility in North America was appropriately granted for the Icebreaker project in Lake Erie. The Icebreaker project proposes to build six turbines eight to 10 miles off the Lake Erie coast, near Cleveland. The demonstration project would… Read More
Texas-based Port of Corpus Christi Commission approved a lease agreement with Buckeye Partners, L.P., that will establish the first solar farm in the 100-year history of the Port for transitioning to clean, sustainable energy over the next decade. The solar farm – which consists of more than 81,000 panels – will be located in San Patricio County… Read More
President Joe Biden signed into law this week a sweeping measure that promises to address inflation in part by lowering Americans’ energy costs and bolstering the clean energy economy. The administration said the new law would reduce the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars and create millions of good-paying, clean energy jobs. The Inflation Reduction… Read More
The Virginia Port Authority has awarded a $223 million contract to rebuild the Portsmouth Marine Terminal for use an an offshore wind staging port. The contract was awarded to Skanska USA, the U.S.-based unit of the Swedish multinational specializing in construction and development. The project entails the redevelopment of approximately 72 acres of the 287-acre… Read More
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A (Petrobras) has awarded Keppel Offshore & Marine’s Keppel Shipyard subsidiary in Singapore has won an approximately US$2.9 billion order from for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the P-80 floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO). Scheduled for completion in the first half 2026, the P-80 is the second FPSO that Keppel… Read More
Brazilian subsea specialist Oceânica has signed a contract that will see Norway’s Green Yard Kleven convert two platform supply vessels for operations in Brazil with ROVs and offshore cranes. The vessels are both of Marin Tekknik MT 6009 design, the 2009-built CF Fortune (MT6009 MkII) and the 2008-built Normand Sira (MT6009 L) — the sale of which was reported by Solstad Rederi AS… Read More