French engineering, advisory, and project management services company DORIS has acquired a compatriot company active in the fixed offshore wind, floating offshore wind, and floating solar market. Through acquiring WINDGLAS, DORIS’ scope of service that is to be offered to the offshore wind industry
In the year in which it saw “considerable progress” on its sustainability agenda, Nexans has reported a “historic high” adjusted EBITDA of €665 million for the 2023 financial year, a +8.2% increase year-on-year, outperforming the target. Nexans’ EBITDA including share-based payment expenses amounted
At last year’s Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC), René Peters, Business Director Gas Technology from TNO, talked about why it is more efficient and economically viable to produce hydrogen offshore than onshore, and how these processes will impact the European hydrogen market.
Fugro has opened a new office in South Korea as part of a joint venture with South Korean marine technology company UST21 in support of the local offshore wind sector. The new office called Fugro UST21 and located in Incheon will provide geo-data solutions for South Korea’s offshore renewable energy
The Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2023 (OEEC 2023) was a great opportunity to get to know innovators and their innovative solutions from the offshore energy realm.
Denmark-based NKT has signed a four-year service agreement with the Norway-based Pipeline Repair and Subsea Intervention (PRSI) Pool which allows it to perform turnkey repairs for offshore power cables owned by the member companies. The PRSI Pool includes 23 companies covering their offshore pipelin
Italy-headquartered Prysmian has finalized three contracts worth in aggregate around €5 billion with the transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion for BalWin1 and BalWin2 offshore grid connection systems and the DC34 underground cable project in Germany. According to Prysmian, this package deal is
Norwegian shipping company Siem Offshore is collaborating with Finnish technology group Wärtsilä on vessel decarbonization solutions as part of its efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of its 26-vessel fleet and goal of reaching full carbon neutrality by 2050. According to Siem, the aim is to achi
During Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2023 (OEEC), Alice Krekt, the Director of NLHydrogen talked about hydrogen, emphasizing that all the countries in Europe need to grow at the same time through the hydrogen value chain, “at least for mobility, for the level playing field, for the industr
The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has issued a call for tenders for a floating LiDAR and associated provision of data for the Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS). The scope of work under the contract that will be awarded through the tender includes the installation, operation,
PGS has been awarded an offshore wind site characterization contract in Europe for an unnamed project. Mobilization is scheduled for early July and the contract has a total duration of approximately two months. The project will be acquired with PGS’ ultra-high-resolution 3D (UHR3D) streamer, providi
Sixteen European partners have started an EU joint industry project (JIP) where floating solar technology is scaled up to standard formats of 150 MW enabling to build gigawatt scale farms. The BAMBOO project (Building scAlable Modular Bamboo-inspired Offshore sOlar systems) aims to resolve challenge
A shortage of skilled workers could be a potential showstopper in the energy transition and the industry needs to be more connected to the educational level, according to Sjoerd Meijer, Advisor at Royal Institute of Engineers (KIVI).
DNV has taken steps to undertake a significant revamp of the standard used for the design and planning of marine operations.
