With the Saint-Brieuc offshore substation (OSS) jacket foundation recently installed off the coast of France, independent engineering consultancy, SLPE, who designed the substructure, have reflected on some of the project’s challenges, including its complex ground conditions and how these were overcome.
38 high-impact[1] exploration wells were drilled in the first half of 2022, similar to the same period in 2021 when 39 wells completed. The 38 wells resulted in 13 potentially commercial discoveries at a 34% commercial success rate, delivering ~6bnboe of discovered resource.
On Tuesday, August 6th, 2022, Ørsted inaugurated the Ørsted Taiwan Offshore Wind Farms Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Hub. Located at the Port of Taichung, the O&M hub is the first operations facility with green design and the largest in terms of size and offshore service capacity in the Asia-Pacific region.
TechnipFMC has been awarded a significant(1) contract by ExxonMobil affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, for the Gas to Energy Project in Guyana.
Eco Wave Power Global announces that the energy conversion unit, formerly deployed in Gibraltar, is officially on its way to AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, set to arrive in September 2022.
UK green energy infrastructure developer, Cerulean Winds, and Ping Petroleum UK announces the signing of an agreement to create one of the UK’s first oil and gas facilities powered mainly by offshore wind.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been awarded the firm order for the 112-MW Ishikari offshore wind power project from Green Power Investment. This instrumental project is the first firm offshore order in Japan for the world’s leading manufacturer of offshore wind turbines.
As part of the rollout of its multi-energy strategy in Angola, TotalEnergies announces the launch of the Begonia oil field, and Quiluma and Maboqueiro gas fields developments, as well as its first photovoltaic project in the country, with a capacity of 35 MWp and the possibility of adding 45 MWp in a second phase.
The African Energy Chamber (AEC) is proud to announce that multinational energy market research firm, Rystad Energy, is the official Intelligence Partner of African Energy Week (AEW) 2022 – Africa’s premier event for the oil and gas sector, which will take place from 18 – 21 October 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa.
ExxonMobil has made two new discoveries offshore Guyana to the southeast of the Liza and Payara developments in the Stabroek block. The discoveries at Seabob and Kiru-Kiru are the sixth and seventh in Guyana this year, with the total number of discoveries in Guyana at more than 25.
James Fisher Renewables (JF Renewables), trusted technical and operations solutions provider to the offshore renewables industry, and a part of James Fisher and Sons, is further implementing its localization plan and growing its regional capabilities in the APAC region through two strategic partnerships with Dong Fang (DFO) and Ho Lung Power Engineering (HLPE).
CorPower Ocean has teamed up with composite machinery specialist Autonational and composite tank experts CPT Tankwell to successfully develop its first commercial-scale hull in Viana do Castelo (Portugal), using a custom-built machine, installed inside an environmentally controlled work cell that will become the future regarding mobility and scalability of CorPower’s composite manufacturing capabilities.
BG International Limited, an affiliate of Shell U.K. Limited, has taken the final investment decision (FID) to develop the Jackdaw gas field in the UK North Sea, following regulatory approval earlier this year.
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