Energy

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.

DNV, an independent energy expert and assurance provider, has been selected by Equinor to provide verification services for FEED (Front End Engineering and Design) of the substation of the Bandibuli / Firefly floating wind farm. The wind farm comprises two 75 km² areas, 70 km offshore Ulsan in South Korea. DNV will leverage its verification services and expertise within offshore substations and floating structures to ensure the reliability and efficiency of this project. This includes independent assessment and validation of standards basis, design requirements and specifications with a focus on optimizing performance and minimizing risks.

Codling Wind Park is pleased to announce the appointment of the international engineering firm COWI for the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) and Detailed Design of foundations.

SBM Offshore is pleased to announce that ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) has confirmed the award of contracts for the Whiptail development project located in the Stabroek Block in Guyana. Under these contracts, SBM Offshore will construct and install FPSO Jaguar.

Eco Wave Power Global AB has entered an agreement with a major energy company to participate in the development of Eco Wave Power’s first project in the United States.

TenneT is taking the initiative to combine house management and maintenance services of the offshore infrastructure in a new model. In the coming period, the transmission system operator will share information and ideas with wind farm and oil & gas operators, to gauge their interest in a collaborative model.

Venterra Group company Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG), a leading global offshore wind services provider have been awarded a contract to provide early supervisory and investigatory geophysical and geotechnical services including the development of a ground model and the conceptual design of foundations for subsequent design stages for the Baltica 1 offshore wind farm.