Business Developments & Projects

ZTT completes Gode Wind 3 submarine cable work offshore Germany
ZTT Submarine Cable & System has finished the installation and termination of the 155 kV submarine cable connecting the Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farm to the DolWin kappa offshore converter platform in Germany. In 2020, TenneT contracted ZTT Submarine Cable & System to link the 253 MW offshore wind

Gasum delivers LNG to Wallenius Sol ships in first ship-to-ship bunkering in Lübeck-Travemünde
Gasum has performed its first ship-to-ship LNG bunker deliveries in Travemünde, Germany, supplying LNG to two vessels owned by Wallenius Sol.

WinGD X-DF-A engines to power AET’s new ammonia dual-fuel Aframaxes
Swiss marine power company WinGD has secured yet another order for its X‑DF‑A ammonia-fueled engines in what will be ‘the world’s first’ ammonia dual-fuel Aframax tankers.

‘Crucial step forward’ as onshore cable installation begins for French-Irish interconnector
French cable maker Nexans has kicked off the installation of high-voltage alternating current (HVAC) onshore cable on the Irish side of the Celtic Interconnector, set to link the power systems of Ireland and France together for the first time via subsea power cable. The project is being developed by

North Wales tidal energy project probes local business opportunities
Business owners from north Wales have gathered at an event, at the Morlais Substation, Holyhead, to promote services to developers of tidal energy devices.

Liquid Wind’s second eFuel facility in Sweden receives environmental permit
The Land and Environmental Court in Östersund has granted an environmental permit for FlagshipTWO, Liquid Wind’s production facility of green electrofuel (eMethanol) in Sweden.

Aker BP embarking on drilling ops with Saipem rig in Norwegian waters
Aker BP has secured a drilling permit from Norway’s authorities for two exploration wells in the Barents Sea.

New legal challenge yields same result: UK going back to the drawing board with net zero plan deemed ‘unlawful’
Another court battle over the UK government’s climate plans has crossed the finish line, with the court ruling against Britain’s net zero plan.

Study: 50 new bunker vessels needed to prepare Germany for rising green fuel demand
With the forecasted increase in bunker demand developing in parallel with the fuel mix towards emission-neutral fuels, there’s a pressing need for a timely and ambitious development of an adapted bunker fleet in German seaports, a new study concluded.

Topsoe to support CF Industries’ new low-carbon ammonia project in US
Topsoe has signed a contract with CF Industries for the licensing and engineering supporting a FEED study of a new low-carbon ammonia plant in Louisiana, U.S.

TotalEnergies hands out work to Wood in North Sea
Wood has won a new decarbonization contract with TotalEnergies E&P UK for a flare gas recovery project in the UK sector of the North Sea.

Saipem’s underwater drone hits milestone with six-month-long uninterrupted operations
Saipem’s Hydrone-R underwater intervention drone has achieved uninterrupted subsea operations for nearly six months, performing remotely operated works and autonomous missions on Equinor’s Njord oil and gas field offshore Norway. The Hydrone-R, whose operations are fully supervised from Saipem’s ons

Stork’s asset management consultants picked for Offshore For Sure Project
Stork’s asset management consultants have been picked by World Class Maintenance (WCM) to perform de-risking and performance improvement activities for five offshore renewable energy innovations within the Offshore For Sure (O4S) project.

With repairs ongoing, TotalEnergies anticipates full technical capacity at North Sea gas project later this year
TotalEnergies is working on fixing an issue that has sprung up at its recently restarted natural gas redevelopment project in the Danish North Sea.