SBM Offshore and Ocean-Power have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the intent to collaborate on a floating power generation hub with CO2 capture and storage. The purpose of the partnership is to assess the technical feasibility and commercial readiness to collaborate on the concept, exclusive to the Norwegian Continental Shelf and United Kingdom Continental Shelf.
Global Maritime has been awarded a contract by the Salamander Offshore Wind Farm, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7, to provide engineering services for the PREDICT 2.0 project.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has released the first edition of API Recommended Practice 75W (API RP 75W), Safety and Environmental Management System for Offshore Wind Operations and Assets.
The official website for the Sustainable European Advanced Subsea Tidal Array (SEASTAR) project has been launched, which will deliver a 4 MW tidal farm comprising 16 tidal stream turbines—the largest number of turbines deployed in a single location globally.
With the support of RWE, the Dutch-Norwegian company SolarDuck, has installed its offshore floating solar (OFPV) project, Merganser. The pilot project aims to test and demonstrate the structural, mooring and electrical designs and acquire knowledge about manufacturing, assembly, offshore installation and maintenance methodologies required for large-scale commercial deployment of OFPV.
Ocean services provider DeepOcean has received a firm order for RWE’s Nordseecluster A offshore wind project in Germany. DeepOcean’s scope of work includes trenching, transport and installation of all inter-array cables with adjacent services for all wind turbines of Nordseecluster A.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announces its approval of the New England Wind Construction and Operations Plan (COP), which authorizes construction and operation of two wind energy projects. This is the final approval of these two projects from BOEM, following the agency’s April 2024 Record of Decision.
A guidance document (C/2024/3998) outlining ways in which investment frameworks for cross-border offshore grid and renewable projects can be organized most efficiently has been published by the European Commission.
SBM Offshore and Technip Energies announce the formal implementation of Ekwil, a 50/50 Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) joint-venture.
Situated 16 kilometers off Cap Fréhel in the Bay of St. Brieuc in the Côtes-d’Armor distric, the farm is notable for being the first large-scale offshore wind power installation in Brittany —a region renowned for its strong winds and high tides, which have historically shaped its landscape and economy—and the second in France dedicated to producing clean energy.
ABS and FibreMax signed a pioneering agreement to collaborate on stiffness-driven mooring tendons for the offshore wind market.
Edison, a leader in the energy transition in Italy, announced that it has signed an agreement with Blunova SpA (Carlo Maresca Group), a leading company active in the development and implementation of renewable power plants, for the joint development of a floating offshore wind power project in Italy.
The CO2 Efficient Transport via Ocean (CETO) joint industry project (JiP) concluded recently with the release of a report setting out the findings of the Technology Qualification performed in the study. The project partners, which included Equinor, Gassco, Shell, TotalEnergies and DNV, have found that there are no technological showstoppers to a low-pressure CO2 ship transport chain.
The Department of the Interior announces its approval of the Atlantic Shores South offshore wind energy project—the nation’s ninth commercial-scale, offshore wind energy project approved under President Biden’s leadership. With this approval, the Department has approved more than 13 gigawatts of clean energy from offshore wind energy projects—enough to power nearly five million homes.
Strohm, the world’s first and leading thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) company, has successfully qualified its first product based on carbon fiber and advanced PVDF polymer and is now offering jumpers and flowlines for CCS applications.
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind (Atlantic Shores) announced that Riggs Distler & Company, Inc. (Riggs Distler) has been selected to lead the Cardiff substation expansion program for Atlantic Shores Project 1, New Jersey’s first offshore wind project.
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