Energy

The ocean holds immense promise and peril. This renewable, plentiful source of energy could do everything from helping satisfy our country’s growing energy demands to powering the devices that track the dangerous storms that threaten coastal communities.

Equinor has, on behalf of the license partners, awarded APPLY, a framework agreement for engineering and installation services on the North Sea Statfjord field. According to the agreement the parties will collaborate in new ways while carrying out the work on Statfjord safely and efficiently.

Eni have successfully drilled the first exploration well in the North El Hammad license, in the conventional Egyptian waters of the Nile Delta, on the prospect called Bashrush. The discovery further extends to the west the gas potential of the Abu Madi formation reservoirs discovered and produced from the so-called "Great Nooros Area."

Equinor is leading a project to develop one of the UK’s – and the world’s – first at-scale facilities to produce hydrogen from natural gas in combination with carbon capture and storage (CCS).

CNOOC Limited announces that the Company made a significant discovery of Huizhou 26-6 in Eastern South China Sea. It is expected to become the first mid-to-large sized condensate oil and gas field in the shallow water area of Pearl River Mouth Basin.

Part funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Marine-i is designed to help the marine tech sector in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly grow through harnessing the full potential of research and innovation. The second phase of the Marine-i program was launched at the end of March 2020 and runs until December 2022.

Aker BP and Pandion Energy have submitted the plan for development and operation (PDO) for Hod to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.

ROMEO Project, which is focused on the development of advanced technologies to reduce the O&M costs of the offshore wind farms, enters its fourth year of execution with the achievement of crucial milestones, such as the deployment of the data acquisition and analytics ecosystem, and the verification that the ROMEO platform may be effectively applied for O&M optimization.

Ten of the world’s leading offshore energy organizations have joined the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s national Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence (FOWCoE) to drive forward the development of next-generation offshore wind technologies.

Ulstein Verft has delivered the Service Operation Vessel ‘WINDEA JULES VERNE’ to Bernhard Schulte Offshore GmbH. The hybrid vessel will work at the Merkur Offshore Wind farm, where she will be operating for GE Renewable Energy.

The Business Network for Offshore Wind’s 2020 International Partnering Forum (IPF) will host IPF Livestream: Vessels this Thursday, June 25. IPF has always been a platform for special industry announcements and this IPF Livestream session will be no different. 

Today, the first episode of a new series on the installation of the WindFloat Atlantic project is available online, entitled “Installing WindFloat Atlantic | Episode 1: Mooring Supply”