The commissioning inspection of the buildings at the Balticconnector project’s Inkoo compressor station has established that the buildings were ready for use. The buildings were inspected by Inkoo municipality’s building inspector and Länsi-Uusimaa Rescue Department’s inspector. “The completion of t
JFD has completed mating trials of its latest portable hyperbaric reception facility (PHRF) for TechnipFMC. The completion of the trials, conducted with two of TechnipFMC’s vessels, provides divers with the assurance that every possible measure has been put into place to ensure their safety should t
The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved Lundin Norway for sample extraction from the Rolvsnes discovery at the Edvard Grieg field in the North Sea. The Rolvsnes oil discovery is located on the southern side of the Edvard Grieg field and is a fractured and weathered granite baseme
SIMEC Atlantis said that its flagship MeyGen project has now exported 17.5 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity to the national grid, exceeding the previous record of approximately 11GWh. According to the company, MeyGen has exported over 7GWh of renewable energy to the grid in 2019, equivalent to th
Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) has completed confined space and structural inspection works at the Gunfleet Sands Windfarm Offshore Substation. The inspection was carried out on behalf of Transmission Investment and TC Gunfleet Sands OFTO Ltd. SMC Operations Director, Dean Coates, said: “We wer
Nord Stream said it will temporarily shut down both lines of its gas pipeline system for routine maintenance works. The maintenance shutdown, scheduled from 16 July to 30 July 2019, is part of the pipeline’s annual inspection cycle and will take place for the seventh time. The annual maintenance wor
Dutch and Danish national transmission system operators (TSOs) Tennet and Energinet are testing the COBRAcable, a high-voltage direct current submarine cable that will interconnect the electricity grids of the two countries. The testing is planned to take place between 03 July 2019 and 06 September
Mainstay Marine Solutions has launched the hull of AMOG Consulting’s wave energy converter (WEC) technology demonstrator device. The hull and keel were launched on Tuesday, July 9, 2019 from Mainstay Marine Solutions’ slipway at Pembrokeshire, Wales UK. The milestone follows the construction contrac
Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Equinor for installation and diving operations on the Europipe II, Heimdal and Statfjord fields, located in the Danish and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. The contract comprises engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of pipeline end
Siemens Gamesa and Swire Blue Ocean have signed a long-term agreement for offshore service operations. As part of the new agreement, Siemens Gamesa is chartering the wind farm installation vessel (WFIV) Pacific Orca from June 2019 to February 2021 ”to more efficiently service the rising of offshore
Siemens Gamesa and Swire Blue Ocean have signed a long-term agreement for offshore service operations. As part of the new agreement, Siemens Gamesa is chartering the wind farm installation vessel (WFIV) Pacific Orca from June 2019 to February 2021 ”to more efficiently service the rising of offshore
Developers behind the in-river tidal energy pilot on the river Rhône in the eastern France have decided not to move forward with the project. Team involved in the project comprised the French electricity generation company, Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR), hydrokinetic technology developer, Hydro
Swiss marine contractor Allseas has acquired Bluerise, a specialist developer of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) technology that delivers renewable energy solutions. Based in Delft, the Netherlands, Bluerise has been researching and developing OTEC technology for 9 years, designing systems th
Kongsberg Maritime has adapted a propeller concept used in naval applications and is now offering the same operational and environmental benefits to commercial shipping. While the naval sector has been using Kongsberg Blade Air Emission technology for a number of years, with several navies deploying
