Oslo-headquartered Fred. Olsen 1848 has unveiled its Tension Buoy concept, designed to maintain stable mooring tension for floating solar installations in reservoirs and hydropower dams with large water-level variations. The solution addresses one of the main technical barriers to pairing floating
AKOFS Offshore, an Oslo-headquartered provider of vessel-based subsea well construction and intervention services, has secured a firm contract for one of its vessels that ensures it will continue working for Brazilian oil & gas giant Petrobras. Following a competitive tender process that resulted in
G-Tec has started geophysical survey work for ELWIND, an offshore wind project that Estonia and Latvia will build together. The Belgian company’s survey vessel Karina has been investigating the seabed in the ELWIND offshore wind farm areas in Estonia and Latvia since early September, with the work e
Norwegian vessel owner DOF Group has placed an order with UK’s Forum Energy Technologies (FET) for a work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) with a supporting tether management system. The equipment, expected to be delivered late this year, will support DOF’s subsea operations in Brazil. Accordin
Energy and marine consultancy ABL has been selected to provide marine warranty survey services to support the installation of Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2), said to be the UK’s largest electricity transmission project and the longest high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable. Developed by a joint ventu
Hellenic Cables has been awarded a contract by Seaway7 for the supply of approximately 165 kilometers of 66 kV inter-array cables and associated accessories for the East Anglia Two offshore wind farm in the UK. Hellenic Cables’ scope of work includes the engineering, design, manufacturing, testing,
DEME has secured a contract for the transport and installation of inter-array cables on the 900 MW Nordseecluster B offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, owned by RWE (51%) and Norges Bank Investment Management (49%). Under the contract, the Belgian offshore construction specialist will transp
Norwegian vessel owner DOF Group has secured several project awards in the North America region that have a combined contract value of over $60 million. The awards will use vessels already in the region, securing over 300 days of firm vessel utilization, with further options available. Skandi Skanse
Aberdeen-headquartered integrated solutions specialist EnerMech has secured a contract it describes as major for the delivery of pre-commissioning and specialist services for an offshore gas development in Australia. The scope of work includes the provision of riser and umbilical services for the se
The Danish subsidiary of France’s energy giant TotalEnergies has signed a farm-down agreement with CarbonVault, an affiliate of the German cement producer SCHWENK, for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the Danish sector of the North Sea.
Singapore-headquartered Aster, a provider of energy, chemical, and infrastructure solutions in Southeast Asia, has awarded contracts to Allseas and DOF Group, as well as other partners, for engineering and rejuvenation of direct tanker-to-refinery crude oil transfer infrastructure. Aster is investin
Italy’s transmission system operator (TSO) Terna and Tunisian counterpart STEG have selected Italian cabling giant Prysmian for the construction of a submarine power interconnection between the two countries. The Elmed project will be the first direct current connection between Europe and Africa and
South Korean Taihan Cable & Solution has begun the construction of its second submarine cable manufacturing facility, which will once operational deliver a production capacity nearly five times greater than the company’s first submarine cable plant. The Dangjin Submarine Cable Plant 2 is located at
Great Britain’s transmission owners National Grid Electricity Transmission and SP Energy Networks have selected Italian cabling giant Prysmian as the preferred bidder for the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable system for the fourth out of five subsea electricity superhighways between Scotland
