
U.S. offshore engineering and construction services provider McDermott International has been selected by BHP’s Mexican arm, in partnership with Pemex, to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) of a semi-submersible floating production unit (FPU) for the Trion Project in the Gulf of Mexico.

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has completed an independent power performance assessment for Verdant Power’s tidal power array at the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) site in New York. The report confirms active power output was 187 kW at 2.5 m/s peak flood tide and turbines performed