Greece’s Corinth Pipeworks, the steel pipe segment of Cenergy Holdings, has secured a contract it deems as significant with Woodside Energy to deliver pipes for a deepwater oil project offshore Mexico. Under the contract, Corinth Pipeworks will manufacture and supply approximately 118 kilometers of
Scotland-headquartered Sulmara has completed a site characterization survey for the Formosa 4 offshore wind project in Taiwan, developed by Synera Renewable Energy (SRE). To overcome challenging environmental site conditions, Sulmara said it employed an industry-first, multi-platform approach runnin
Dutch provider of offshore floating facilities SBM Offshore and Norwegian energy solutions development company Ocean-Power have signed a partnership agreement to collaborate on a floating power generation hub with CO2 capture and storage. With the signature of a memorandum of understanding (MoU), th
The cable-laying vessel (CLV) that Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder VARD is building for Danish subsea specialist NCT Offshore has hit the water in Romania. NCT placed the order for the 95-meter-long CLV with VARD in early 2023, with Vard Design in Ålesund, Norway, in charge of the design, Va
SSEN Transmission has opened the tendering for cable and converter work packages for Eastern Green Link 3 (EGL3), the UK’s largest proposed HVDC transmission project, which will link Peterhead in Scotland and Norfolk in England. EGL3, a joint venture between SSEN Transmission and National Grid Elect
“This contract, where we are partnering with a new customer, is testament to our strong in-house engineering capabilities, which enable us to address customers’ complex engineering requirements and optimise and de-risk projects,” said Alasdair MacDonald, CEO of Tekmar Group.
Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group has performed what is said to be the industry’s first installation of an HVDC cable at a water depth of 2,150 meters. Prysmian completed the sea trial tests for ultra-deep installation of a 500 kV HVDC MI cable at a 2,150-meter water depth, stating that this is i
Enefit Green, a renewable energy developer based in Estonia, has issued a call for tenders for geotechnical surveys at the project site of its Liivi offshore wind farm, located ten kilometers off the island of Kihnu in the Estonian part of the Gulf of Riga. The call was published on July 8 with the
Norwegian Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has secured what it says is its first seismic node project, as part of its strategy to diversify its offerings and enhance vessel utilization. EMGS is set to undertake a fully pre-funded ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey in the Barents Sea in collabo
Belgian Cenergy Holdings has passed the first milestone for the development of a cable manufacturing facility in Maryland, the U.S., by reaching a final investment decision (FID). The company announced in April that its U.S. subsidiary Hellenic Cables Americas is planning to build a new cable manufa
South Korea-headquartered Taihan Cable & Solution and energy services company Hanwha Solutions have partnered up to work on the development of crucial materials used in high-voltage direct current (HVDC) and submarine cables, as well as extra-high-voltage (EHV) cables. The South Korean companies sig
RWE has kicked off geophysical and geotechnical site investigations at the Norfolk Boreas, Norfolk Vanguard East, and Norfolk Vanguard West offshore wind project sites in the UK, rights to which the German company acquired from Vattenfall earlier this year. The survey vessel Braveheart Spirit is con
Following certification to use biofuels for the vessel, Denmark-based power cable manufacturer and installation company NKT has made a number of upgrades on its cable-laying vessel (CLV) NKT Victoria, said to be prompted by growing market demand and customer requirements. With the aim of boosting it
The Dutch/German offshore transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT is working on a concept for an offshore subsea transformer that could, according to the TSO, speed up the offshore grid expansion. At the end of June, TenneT launched a tender in Germany for feasibility studies into the concept. Acc
