Energy

Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO) and e5 Lab Inc. ( e5) have reached an agreement on a business partnership for the development and promotion of pure electric vessels "Water Urban Mobility" (hereafter EV) in the Kansai bay area in Japan.
 


Equinor has, on behalf of the Wisting license partners, awarded contracts for concept studies to further progress of the project development towards a final concept select decision.

ABB Marine & Ports has been selected as a key technology partner for a far-reaching EU project exploring the use of remote offshore inspection and maintenance techniques for wind farms.

Marine-i has announced that it would like to engage with businesses without marine experience and for them to consider the fast growing opportunity in marine technology.

Machine learning has the potential to significantly reduce oil and gas well delivery time, bring down operational spending and accelerate production if it is deployed at scale in the Norwegian Continental Shelf, new research published today by OG21 and DNV GL reveals.



As the first successful pilots transition into the first commercial projects, floating offshore wind is opening up new vistas to offshore wind generation.

Atlantis, the global sustainable energy generation company and technology developer, alongside its partner Asturfeito SAU, announces that its VPSTTG project has been given the go-ahead to proceed to the manufacturing stage.

Canada has an abundance of renewable energy sources that are helping power our country’s clean growth future and the Government of Canada is investing in renewables to reduce emissions, create jobs and invigorate local economies in a post COVID-19 pandemic world.

The EU-funded Ocean DEMO project has awarded recommendations for support to 12 offshore renewable energy developers under its 3rd call. 

To meet the future requirements of the offshore wind industry in the overall project logistics and turbine related O&M activities, Spanish engineering company Marcelo Penna Engineering and Safeway, the Dutch specialist in the design and manufacture of offshore transfer equipment, have joined forces to design an intelligent Service Operation Vessel with a very high focus on crew comfort, safety, reliability and workability in combination with lowering costs.

Leading Italian energy company Eni is joining Ocean Energy Europe, taking up a seat on the Board of Directors as a Lead Partner, the industry body announced today. Vincenzo Michetti, Eni’s Head of Upstream R&D will represent the company on the Board.

With the aim of raising awareness of health and safety requirements, and the importance of sharing lessons learned within the offshore renewable energy industry, the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) is holding a webinar on ‘Health & Safety – Our industry’s priority’.