Operations & Maintenance
Gallery: Full steam ahead for MeyGen installation
Atlantis Resources is making final preparations to install the first phase of the MeyGen tidal array project in the Pentland Firth, off Caithness.
Ofgem Reveals OFTO Tender Round 5 Start Date
UK’s energy market regulator Ofgem will start the fifth tender round (TR5) for offshore transmission owners (OFTOs) where companies will bid to become owners of five transmission links to offshore wind farms on 10 October 2016. The five links have an estimated value of GBP 2 billion in total and a g
Gazprom Gets Go-Ahead for TurkStream Pipeline Survey
Gazprom has received a survey permit for two strings of the TurkStream gas pipeline’s offshore section in Turkey’s territorial waters. The TurkStream gas pipeline will run 660 kilometers along the old route of South Stream and cover 250 kilometers of a new route toward the European part of Turkey. “
Seaeye Leopard Arrives at ROVOP’s Houston Base
ROVOP has expanded its fleet of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for the US region. Namely, the company said it has taken delivery of Seaeye Leopard electric work class ROV, the first of its kind for the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), and believed it could help operators reduce costs by 40 percent. The ROV
Report: Innovations Can Shave 33 Percent Off LCOE by 2030
A report by KIC InnoEnergy and BVG Associates has identified fifty offshore wind innovations which have the potential to make a substantial reduction in the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) through changes to design, hardware, software or process. The report, ‘Future renewable energy costs: offshore
Maersk Oil Begins Culzean Drilling
Danish company Maersk Oil has started drilling of the first production well on the Culzean field off UK on Wednesday, September 29. The well is the first of six production wells to be drilled on the high pressure/high temperature (HPHT) field, with continuous drilling activity planned over the next
Oceantec WEC soon to raise Spanish waves
Spanish wave energy developer, Oceantec Energías Marinas, is finalizing the construction of its wave energy converter ahead of the deployment off Spain.
Siem Offshore Contractors Sets Up UK Base in Scotland
Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC) has opened an office in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, Scotland to serve as local project office and act as the focal point for the company’s UK market growth strategy. SOC will use the new office to carry out the contract for the turnkey supply and installation packag
Siem Offshore Contractors Sets Up UK Base in Scotland
Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC) has opened an office in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, Scotland to serve as local project office and act as the focal point for the company’s UK market growth strategy. SOC will use the new office to carry out the contract for the turnkey supply and installation packag
Siem Offshore Contractors Selects JDR for Beatrice Inner Array Cables
Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC) has selected UK based JDR to design, manufacture and supply around 163km of 33kV inner array grid cables for the 588 MW Beatrice offshore wind farm. JDR will be manufacturing the submarine composite cables at its Hartlepool facility. These will be directly loaded out
Sabella treads towards bright 2016 ending
French tidal energy developer, Sabella, is expecting to wrap up the year 2016 with several projects moving forward to the next phase of development.
Transmission Capital Services Returns to CWind
Transmission assets owner and operator Transmission Capital Services (TCS) has chartered one of CWind’s crew transfer vessels (CTV) on a five-year contract to support works at several of their offshore substations in the United Kingdom. CWind is using one of its MPC19 resin infused composite catamar
Technip to Lay Off All Employees at Pori (Finland)
Technip Offshore Finland is reportedly sending home its entire workforce employed at construction yard in Pori. The manufacturing yard in Finland, lately responsible for delivery of a 23,000-ton truss spar hull for Anadarko’s Heidelberg field development in the US Gulf of Mexico, has experienced a s
Principle Power Dismantles WindFloat 1
Principle Power has announced the successful decommissioning of WindFloat 1, the company’s 2MW prototype that had been deployed off the Northern Coast of Portugal. The project, originally installed in 2011, was a full lifecycle demonstration of the features and benefits of the WindFloat floating off