Business Developments & Projects

Correll gets work on France’s first offshore wind farm
Correll Group has secured a contract with Prysmian for the pull-in of two export cables at the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. Correll will be in charge of completing the pull-in operations of the two 225 kV export cables, each about 33 kilometers long, to the offshore substati

Falcon ROV to support subsea ops in Turkish waters
ARAS Marine has purchased a deep-rated Saab Seaeye Falcon remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to support the company’s operations in international and Turkish territorial waters.

Subsea 7-Schlumberger consortium wins offshore Turkey
The consortium of Subsea 7 and Schlumberger has won an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract by Turkish Petroleum for subsea equipment for the Sakarya development in the Black Sea.

Viaro’s RockRose buys batch of UK North Sea assets from SSE
Viaro Energy has completed the acquisition of a number of producing assets in the UK North Sea from energy company SSE.

Ørsted teaming up with Polish coal power producer to bid in offshore wind auctions
Ørsted and ZE PAK (Zespół Elektrowni Pątnów-Adamów-Konin), Poland’s second largest producer of energy from coal-fired plants with a strategy for phase-out until 2030, have signed a letter of intent to jointly participate in the upcoming auction for seabed leases in Poland and the country’s Contract

Shell’s new Upstream boss to also join executive committee
Oil major Shell has made changes to its executive committee by adding a new director and changing the role of a current member.

Maersk inks end-to-end logistics deal with Danish Crown
Danish container shipping and logistics giant A.P. Moller – Maersk has signed a global end-to-end logistics agreement with compatriot food manufacturer Danish Crown from 2021.

Danes eyeing extra gigawatt of offshore wind at Bornholm Energy Island
The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities has requested Energinet to expand the current feasibility study areas at the Bornholm Energy Island site in the Baltic Sea, which could allow for installing 1 GW of offshore wind capacity more and also be the new place where the Hesselø project co

TECO 2030 fuel cells for Chemgas Shipping’s hydrogen-powered vessels
Norwegian maritime cleantech company TECO 2030 ASA has signed a supply frame agreement with the Dutch shipowner Chemgas Shipping BV for the delivery of fuel cell modules.

Repsol invests $2.96 billion in renewable hydrogen push
Spanish oil and gas company Repsol says it will invest €2.549 billion ($2.958 billion) in the entire hydrogen value chain by 2030. Renewable hydrogen is one of Repsol’s strategic pillars to achieve zero emissions by 2050. Thus, the company presented its hydrogen strategy for up to 2030 Its goal is t

CorPower on board European Commission’s renewed Clean Energy Industrial Forum
Swedish wave energy company CorPower Ocean has been appointed to the European Commission’s renewed Clean Energy Industrial Forum.

Rolls-Royce new member of ITF Corporate Partnership Board
Technology company Rolls-Royce has joined the Corporate Partnership Board of the International Transport Forum (ITF) to work together with the ITF on transport decarbonisation, innovation and digitalisation.

Subsea 7 and NOC set up research alliance for better ocean understanding
Subsea 7 and the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have launched a research alliance focused on improving the scientific understanding of global oceans for a sustainable marine future. The BORA Blue Ocean Research Alliance will accelerate the knowledge of global ocean processes through a numbe

Bureau Veritas and AYOP hook up to address decommissioning challenge
Bureau Veritas has joined Dutch advocacy and networking group Amsterdam IJmuiden Offshore Ports to tackle the decommissioning challenge.