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Oceantic Network has released its US Offshore Wind Quarterly Market Report – Q1 2024, available now to download. The report highlights announced investments, advancements of the review process for several projects, and notable policy developments that drove the US market forward between January and March of 2024.

Fugro has transferred their self-elevating platform (SEP) Amberjack to Japan to meet the country’s growing demand for offshore wind geotechnical services. Under Japanese regulations, vessels registered in Japan follow a more streamlined procedure than foreign-flagged vessels when deployed for fieldwork, so this move will speed up mobilization to project sites and allow faster delivery of Fugro’s accurate Geo-data to the country's developing offshore wind industry.

On April 18, 2024, applications opened up for a unique project that could expand the US market for innovative UK companies developing technology that can help support the growing floating offshore wind market in the United States.

bp, as operator of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) project, announces the start-up of oil production from the new Azeri Central East (ACE) platform as part of the ACG field development in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea.

Carnegie Clean Energy Ltd (Carnegie) is pleased to share that its wholly owned subsidiary, CETO Wave Energy Ireland (CWEI), has successfully passed the EuropeWave Authorization to Proceed (ATP) milestone as part of its EuropeWave ACHIEVE Contract.

Dominion Energy announces that Charybdis, the United States' first Jones Act-compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel, was successfully launched from land to water, marking a major milestone in the vessel's construction. To achieve this milestone, welding of the ship's hull and commissioning of the vessel's four legs and related jacking system were successfully completed.

The Johan Castberg ship will soon be heading north. With the ship in place, the plan is to have three producing fields in the Barents Sea by the end of the year.

Chartwell Marine, a trusted pioneer of next-generation vessel design, has announced that a new Chartwell Brevity Class Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) entered build in March at the Diverse Marine shipyard in Cowes, UK – becoming the latest in Chartwell’s growing pipeline of new vessel builds to supply the global offshore wind market.

Seatools is pleased to announce the successful delivery and operation of its pre-piling template equipment to CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) for the Hai Long Offshore Wind Farm project. This milestone reinforces Seatools' standing as the undisputed market leader in advanced subsea metrology and control solutions, drawing on its vast experience from over twelve similar pre-piling template projects.

Seatrium Limited (Seatrium) is pleased to announce that it has inked a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with energy company Shell Global Solutions International B.V. (Shell) to explore and strengthen collaboration opportunities in Floating Production Systems through leveraging both parties’ deep engineering capabilities and technologies.

VIKING Life-Saving Equipment has signed a strategic agreement with HeliService USA, ensuring that the helicopter service provider has a single and continuous source of fully certified personal protective equipment to uphold offshore wind industry safety standards along the US East Coast. Building on enduring relations between the companies, the agreement includes personal protective equipment (PPE) for the aircrews and service technicians who support turbine installation and maintenance.

Petrofac, a leading provider of services to the global energy industry, has been awarded a contract extension by bp, continuing support across its North Sea portfolio.