Energy

The latest educational offering from AMPP’s Corrosion Technical Series is a 5-hour short course offered over 2-days on the prevention of corrosion for renewable energy assets, including solar and offshore wind farms.

Acteon announces that its specialist pile-driving operating company, MENCK, has been awarded a contract to support Boskalis with the foundation piling activities on the Taiwanese Changfang and Xidao offshore wind farm (CFXD OWF) project.

Marine-i research expertise has enabled Morek Engineering to create innovative software to streamline the development of seafastening designs for the offshore renewables market.

Stena Drilling has entered into a strategic framework agreement for decarbonization exploration with UK based dCarbonX to support the development of offshore “geoenergy” resources. Both parties are interested in offshore decarbonization exploration drilling as a new, innovative, and sustainable enabler of the energy transition.

Since HRH The Crown Prince inaugurated Ørsted's offshore wind farm Horns Rev 2 in 2009, the 91 wind turbines at the 35 km2-sized wind farm have generated enough wind power to cover 3 % of the total Danish power consumption.

Equinor and partners DNO Norge, Petoro and Wellesley Petroleum have struck gas and oil in production license 923. Recoverable resources are estimated at between 7 and 11 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent, corresponding to 44 – 69 million barrels of oil equivalent.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s installed offshore wind capacity rose by 15% in 2020, reaching 31.9 gigawatts (GW) at year-end, from 27.7 GW at the end of 2019, Rystad Energy estimates. China was the main contributor in 2020, accounting for 39% of last year’s additions, followed by the Netherlands (18%) and the UK (17%).

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announces that it intends to resume the environmental review of Vineyard Wind’s proposed offshore wind project.

The fifth and final MaRINET2 call results have been announced, bringing the project's total budget for free lab, tank and open-sea testing to €5 million. In all, MaRINET2 has provided more than 600 weeks of testing and support to over 170 technology developers from almost 20 European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Brazil and the US.



Sustainable Marine is forging ahead with plans to deliver the world’s first floating tidal energy array after unveiling its next-generation platform in Nova Scotia, Canada.
 


Expert support from Marine-i is helping 3D printing specialist J-Supplied to develop large scale technology to produce bespoke parts for the floating offshore wind industry, such as custom-designed turbine blades.

Equinor and bp have completed their previously announced transaction, whereby Equinor has sold a 50% interest in both the Empire Wind and Beacon Wind assets on the US east coast for a total cash consideration of around USD 1.1 bn excluding customary purchase price adjustments.