Global Marine Group (GMG), has officially launched its new pre-lay plough, known as the PLP240. Osbit recently delivered the subsea plough to GMG, following contract award in January. The offshore technology company designed and built the plough and has worked in collaboration with Global Marine Gro
DTOceanPlus partners recently met for a General Assembly in Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation and validated the integration of 3 new partners into the project. The meeting was organised by Wave Energy Scotland and the University of Edinburgh. The first year of the project is reflected in the pu
Hydrex has developed a new method to clean propeller blades underwater in close communication with the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. This method complies with the environmental regulations in Belgium and the Netherlands and as a result, Hydrex has been given permission to cl
GE Renewable Energy has installed three out of four tower sections which will support the prototype Haliade-X 12 MW wind turbine at Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The final tower section will be installed once the nacelle arrives at Maasvlakte during the summer, GE Renewable E
Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved the Vigdis boosting station increased oil recovery (IOR) project in the North Sea. Vigdis field, located in the Tampen area of the North Sea, has been developed with seven subsea templates and produces oil through the Snorre field. The boosti
Denmark’s EUDP program has awarded DKK 4.79 million (EUR 642,000) to a floating wind – wave technology project as part of an effort to de-carbonise oil and gas production. The project gathers Floating Power Plant, Lundin Norway AS, NOV APL Limited, Semco Maritime, CEFRONT, and Aalborg University. Wi
Eco Wave Power has signed a letter of intent with the Port of Taranto, in Italy for the development of the first wave energy power station in Italy. Representatives from Eco Wave Power will arrive to the port again in July for in-depth discussion on the best path forward, the company said. In additi
Conoco Phillips, on behalf of the licensees, has submitted a Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for the re-development of the Tor field in the Greater Ekofisk area in the North Sea. The field was in production from 1978 until it was shut down in 2015 when the installation reached the end of it
The OceanSET project was recently launched to provide support to ocean energy implementation in line with the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan). It is a 3‐year EU H2020 project with a total budget of €1 million that gathers together 9 partners. The SET Implementation Plan (SET Pla
MacArtney France continues to supply Teledyne Oil & Gas connectivity solutions to the pioneering MEUST-NUMerEnv observatory project located 40 kilometers offshore Toulon, France. Over the last two decades, MacArtney France has provided connectors to ANTARES (Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and A
Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE) and C3.ai have formed a joint venture agreement that brings together BHGE’s fullstream oil and gas expertise with C3.ai’s AI software suite to deliver digital transformation technologies for the oil and gas industry. The joint venture combines BHGE’s extensive oil a
Neptune Energy said that its development plans for the Duva and Gjøa P1 projects in the North Sea have been approved by Norwegian authorities. First production from the projects is expected in late 2020 with total recoverable resources estimated to be 120 million barrels of oil equivalent (maximum p
Dutch clean energy technology developer Bluerise was declared bankrupt by the court in Den-Haag. The company which last year partnered with Ecopower Lanka to build an ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) project in Sri Lanka, filed for ‘suspension of payments’ due to the inability to pay the emplo
Enpro Subsea and DASS Can-K Pumps have announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deliver multiphase pumping solutions for topside and subsea well boosting. The announcement sees Can-K’s patented Electro Submersible Twin-Screw Multiphase (ESTSP) pump technology being combined with Enpro’s subs
