Energy

The offshore wind farms under development today are moving to more remote locations and increasing in capacity and size, bringing with them a host of new challenges.

Natural gas production in the U.S. Federal Gulf of Mexico (GOM) has been declining for nearly two decades.

Contracted by the Spanish construction group Cobra, BOURBON completed the installation of the first wind turbine at Cobra Wind's Kincardine site, Scotland, off the coast of Aberdeen this summer.

Inyanga-Tech Ltd, which is based in Penryn in Cornwall, has launched an innovative tidal energy project called HydroWing.

DeNovo Energy Limited (DeNovo), a subsidiary of the Proman Group (Proman), has today announced the first commercial supply of gas from the Iguana Field in Block 1(a), which will deliver 80 million cubic feet of gas per day once fully operational.

Ten months after the final assembly of the offshore substation (OSS) for the new Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm started at Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (DSV), the substation topside has now been moved outside the construction hall so that further outfitting can take place.

The Washington Post is reporting that United States Coast Guard (USCG) has ordered Taylor Energy Company to contain and clean up an ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which the federal government says has leaked more than a million barrels of oil since 2004—or face fines of $40,000 per day.

A notice from the Federal Register published on 16 November 2018 proposes streamlining how companies gain authorization for geophysical surveys in the Gulf of Mexico. It also indicates planned actions on other regulations for the offshore oil and gas industry, which range from blowout prevention and well control to pipeline right-of-way and air quality rules.

Power from tides and ocean currents is not all about the potential of large underwater turbines to produce industrial-scale levels of electricity. At the smaller scale, tidal power can be just as useful and, indeed, can be a lot easier to deploy to meet commercial needs.

On 19 November 2018, Enpro Subsea announced that it has reached a master services agreement (MSA) with Kosmos Energy (formerly Deep Gulf Energy) aimed at providing enhanced subsea architecture and smart standardization via Enpro’s patented flow access module (FAM) technology.

The design of the new Orbital Marine Power tidal turbine has been unveiled in a new animation as part of the FloTEC project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program.

A new report from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre analyzes ten future emerging technologies to generate energy from the ocean tides and waves. The report is the result of efforts from thirty experts in the ocean energy sector, who describe the state of advancement of each of the technology family, advantages, technological limitations, as well as their technology readiness level. The end of 2018 is the perfect time to look to the future: