Energy

President Biden has signed an Executive Order that includes doubling offshore wind power generation in U.S. federal waters by 2030.

This year, the Equinor & Techstars Energy Accelerator will be entirely virtual. Ten selected startups will receive support by over one hundred mentors during the program.

Odfjell Drilling will retrofit its newest deepwater, semi-submersible drilling rigs in the North Sea’s Norwegian sector with the system. The upgrades will be carried out on Deepsea Atlantic and Deepsea Nordkapp, with the opportunity to include Deepsea Stavanger, Deepsea Aberdeen, and Deepsea Yantai at a later stage.

The offshore wind sector should invest now in new technologies to transform operational practices and ensure continued growth, or risk losing out on significant immediate savings, and over the coming decades too.   

Akselos and Worley have announced a new distributor deal which will see the international energy, chemical, and resources firm market, license, and distribute Akselos’ predictive digital twin technology. 

The Danish company Wavepiston has installed the first full-scale modules, of its wave energy converter (WEC) at the test site of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN). Their device allows the conversion of wave motion into electricity and desalinated water.

Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd., the oil and gas exploration company with licenses in proven oil province in Guyana and the highly prospective basins in Namibia, announces that it has formed a new company ("Eco Atlantic Renewables") with Nepcoe Capital Partners Ltd. ("Nepcoe"), a renewable energy developer and investment company, to source, acquire and develop an exclusive pipeline of potential high yield solar projects.

Following the recent announcement of Fugro and NYK forming a partnership to provide offshore geotechnical services in Japan, the two companies have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with leading Japanese geoscience specialist OYO Corporation (OYO).

Kongsberg Maritime (KM) technology is at the center of an ambitious new project to build a next-generation Wind Turbine Installation Unit (WTIU), destined to be among the largest of its type.

A new wind training center to support the U.S. offshore wind and onshore industries has opened its doors to customers after receiving approval from the Global Wind Organization (GWO).

Kongsberg Maritime will be supplying key positioning and monitoring equipment to Equinor’s Hywind Tampen floating wind farm, as part of a contract with industrial solutions provider Wood PLC.

SINN Power‘s Ocean Hybrid Platform (OHP) is now available for project developers around the world.