Project & Tenders
MMT and Reach Subsea on duty at Hywind Scotland floating wind farm
MMT and Reach Subsea are set to carry out inspection services at Equinor’s Hywind Scotland floating offshore wind farm. Simon Møkster Shipping’s vessel Stril Explorer is expected to begin the work this month. Hywind Scotland comprises five Siemens 6 MW floating turbines mounted on SPAR-type foundati
ADC consortium taps NEC for new subsea cable project
Asia Direct Cable (ADC) consortium is building a submarine cable connecting China, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. To that end, the consortium has selected NEC for the 9,400-kilometre long ADC cable. According to NEC, the project should wrap up by the fourth quarter of 2022.
Elixir Energy plans small-scale Mongolia LNG plant
Australia-based Elixir Energy said it has recently signed a deal with Mongolia’s MT Group to develop a small-scale LNG plant in the South Gobi region. The LNG facility would supply fuel to the South Gobi’s large coal trucking fleet, according to a statement by Elixir Energy on Friday. The memorandum
Triton Knoll East topside heads offshore
The topside for the Triton Knoll Offshore Substation Platform (OSP) East has left Vlissingen in the Netherlands and is en route to the installation site off Lincolnshire, UK. Once there, the topside will be lowered onto its monopile foundation by Seaway 7’s installation vessel Seaway Strashnov. Seaw
Ocean Energy gets onboard Selkie project
Ireland-Wales cooperation programme, the Selkie project, has picked Ocean Energy as part of its wave energy tender call. Ocean Energy is a wave energy technology developer based in Cobh, Ireland. The company completed the fabrication of its 500kW OE35 device for deployment at the US Navy Test Site i
Ørsted reaches 7 GW offshore wind capacity with turbine No. 1500
Ørsted has installed its 1,500th offshore wind turbine with which the world’s leading offshore wind developer reached 7 GW of capacity installed. Ørsted achieved this milestone recently after installing the 25th Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbine on the 752 MW Borssele 1 & 2 wind farm in the Dutch Nor
Innogy to start geophysical surveys at Awel y Môr offshore wind project
Fugro is set to begin geophysical surveys at innogy’s Awel y Môr offshore wind project in the UK. Survey works are expected to commence in mid-June, lasting up to eight weeks, a spokesperson from innogy told Offshore WIND. Three dedicated vessels will map the characteristics of the seabed and subsea
Australia Pacific LNG ships 500th cargo
The Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, run by ConocoPhillips, has shipped its 500th cargo of the fuel since it started operations in 2016. The 174,100 cubic meters CESI Tianjin loaded the milestone cargo and departed the Curtis Island facility near Gladstone on Thursday, according
Rotech Subsea completes North Sea offshore wind job
Rotech Subsea has completed a three-phase work scope at the Borssele and Triton Knoll offshore wind farms for a dredging specialist. Rotech provided its TRS1 and TRS1LD Jet Trenching tools to carry out pit clearing and cable lowering at the Borssele project in the Dutch North Sea, as well as grout b
Aker Solutions to deliver umbilicals for Murphy’s Gulf of Mexico project
Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract from Subsea 7 to deliver umbilicals for Murphy Oil’s King’s Quay development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
Deep Down bags $2 million in new orders
Subsea equipment specialist Deep Down has received material orders from two customers totaling approximately $2 million. The scope of work for these orders includes providing subsea controls equipment. This consist of jumpers, flying leads and also electrical/hydraulic distribution manifold. The com
Second Triton Knoll topside ready to move
The second Triton Knoll offshore substation platform (OSP) topside has been loaded onto a barge and fastened in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. The Triton Knoll OSP East topside was seafastened onto the Greenbarge 3 at Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen. The Greenbarge 3 and the topside will be towed offshore
Petrofac to support CCS and hydrogen project in UK
Petrofac has been awarded an engineering and project management office support contract for the Acorn project.
BOEM completes Vineyard Wind’s EIS supplement document
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed a Supplement to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project, planned to be built off the coast of Massachusetts. The Notice of Availability (NOA) for the document, which will open a 45-day