Business Developments & Projects
Acteon: Breathing new life into floating wind farms using digital response twin
By using new technologies such as digital response twin, one of the tools developed and used successfully in the oil and gas sector, we can extend the life of floating wind farms, Tim Eyles, Vice President of UK-based company Acteon revealed.
Tristar orders hybrid electric bunkering vessel in Türkiye
The United Arab Emirates-based maritime and logistics company Tristar Group has signed an agreement with Türkiye’s Akdeniz Shipyard for the construction of a hybrid bunker barge for the UAE.
After Transocean, Halliburton snaps up multi-million job on giant gas project in Black Sea
OMV Petrom has picked Halliburton Romania, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Halliburton, has been picked for integrated drilling services.
Aasen Shipping’s new self-dischargers to feature Wärtsilä hybrid engines
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to supply an integrated hybrid propulsion solution for three new self-discharging cargo vessels being built at the Dutch Royal Bodewes shipyard for Norwegian shipowner Aasen Shipping.
Equinor keeps Reach Subsea busy offshore Brazil
Norway-headquartered Reach Subsea is set to begin work for Equinor offshore Brazil this month, using the subsea vessel Havila Subsea. Reach Subsea has together with its Brazilian partner OceanPact received a notice of contract award from Equinor for combined light construction, inspection, maintenan
Finnlines wraps up €500 million newbuilding program with delivery of 2nd hybrid Superstar RoPax
Finnish shipping company Finnlines has taken delivery of Finncanopus, the second of two Superstar-series freight-passenger (ro-pax) vessels. The delivery ceremony was held today at the China Merchants Jinling Shipyard in Weihai, China. The homeward voyage from the shipyard is expected to take 6–7 we
£1 billion contract awarded for UK subsea electricity superhighway
A few months after having been selected as the preferred suppliers, the consortium of GE Vernova’s Grid Solutions business and MYTILINEOS Energy & Metals has secured a £1 billion contract to deliver the HVDC converter stations for the 2 GW Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) subsea electricity superhighway
Transocean rig lands new multi-million gig in Black Sea
Transocean has tucked a new deal under its belt with OMV Petrom for one of its semi-submersibles, which will see the rig move to work in the Black Sea.
MAN taps Alfa Laval for methanol fuel-supply solution
German engine manufacturer MAN Energy Solutions has signed an agreement with Alfa Laval, the Swedish industrial concern, to develop a methanol fuel-supply solution for MAN four-stroke engines and its fuel-injection technology. As a result, the first four-stroke engine types will be capable of retrof
WinGD, Alfa Laval to work together on ammonia-powered engines development
Swedish sustainable solutions provider Alfa Laval and Swiss engine designer WinGD have established a partnership in which Alfa Laval will deliver two fuel supply systems (FSS) for testing WinGD’s ammonia-fueled engine in early 2024.
Polish firm closer to becoming the operator of only Barents Sea CO2 exploration license
Horisont Energi and PGNiG Upstream Norway (PUN), part of Poland’s ORLEN Group, have signed a sales and purchase agreement (SPA) under which PUN acquires a 50% participating interest in the only CO2 exploration license in the Barents Sea and is willing to take over the operator role. Under the SPA, P
Research center for subsea infrastructure security opens in The Hague
The Seabed Security Experimentation Center (SeaSEC), the research center for submarine infrastructure security, has officially opened in The Hague, the Netherlands. Located at Campusatsea in Scheveningen, the SeaSEC research center is committed to safeguarding the subsea infrastructure in the North
Everfuel forms green hydrogen alliance with ITOCHU and Osaka Gas
Danish green hydrogen company Everfuel has entered into a strategic collaboration with HyVC ApS, a joint venture between Japanese companies ITOCHU Corporation and Osaka Gas, to accelerate the development of green hydrogen production and share related technology knowledge. Everfuel, ITOCHU, and Osaka
With replacement work underway, restart of TotalEnergies’ UK gas plant anticipated in fortnight’s time
TotalEnergies is continuing its investigation into the failure of a heating system section at a gas plant on the north coast of the main island of the Shetland Isles.