Offshore Wind
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September 11, 2023
On Friday, an auction for contracts to build new wind farms received zero bids from developers. It’s the first time that’s happened since the current system was introduced almost a decade ago, and it raises major questions about the UK’s environmental targets.
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August 29, 2023
“According to BOEM, a single offshore wind project could support approximately 4,470 jobs and $445 million in GDP during construction and an ongoing 150 jobs and $14 million annually from operation and maintenance labor, materials, and services," National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Erik Milito said.
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August 29, 2023
Administration sources say the move advances the President’s commitment to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030.
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August 28, 2023
Three tracts, each spanning about 100,000 acres, are up for grabs in the auction, which is set to unfold anonymously over successive rounds Tuesday. Companies that have registered as potential bidders include apparent affiliates of offshore oil heavyweights BP Plc, Equinor Asa, Repsol SA, Shell Plc and TotalEnergies SE.
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August 24, 2023
MSIP and Crowley’s partnership will focus on repurposing and operating existing U.S. port facilities and leasing them under long-term contracts to offshore wind developers.
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August 18, 2023
Aker Solutions provided engineering and project management support, while the cable installation was performed utilizing competence and resources from DeepOcean. The main installation vessel, Solstad Offshore’s Normand Sapphire, was mobilized from Norway.
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August 16, 2023
Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham voicing his opposition to the installation of offshore wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico after the Biden Administration announced plans to auction off more than 300,000 acres for offshore wind energy.
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August 11, 2023
Rovco’s scope of work involves the acquisition of geophysical and benthic information to provide detailed data to inform environmental impact assessment (EIA) consents and the engineering processes from engineering to early front-end engineering and design (FEED) study.
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August 07, 2023
The collaboration between Saitec Offshore Technologies, RWE Offshore Wind, and now KEPCO, creates a powerful alliance that will drive innovation, accelerate the commercialization of the SATH floating wind solution, and contribute to the transition towards a more sustainable energy future.
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August 07, 2023
bp is considering building two offshore wind farms in the Irish Sea without any support from the government — marking a first for the sector where development has been hindered by rising costs.
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TotalEnergies, Baker Hughes, Technip Energies to develop renewable energy projects in Europe, Africa
August 03, 2023
TotalEnergies, Baker Hughes, Technip Energies, Azimut (through the fund Azimut ELTIF – Infrastructure & Real Assets ESG) and other investors have signed preliminary agreement to invest in Zhero Europe to develop large scale renewable energy projects in Europe and Africa spanning across renewable power generation, power interconnections and green molecules.
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July 26, 2023
The PROD unit, supported by the survey services of Acteon Geo-services brand UTEC, was deployed from the Ocean Zephyr offshore supply vessel. The geotechnical work began in December 2022 and the three-month project was completed in March 2023. Wind farm construction is expected to start in early 2024, and the first power export is anticipated in 2026.
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July 20, 2023
The Final Sale Notice includes a 102,480-acre area offshore Lake Charles, Louisiana, and two areas offshore Galveston, Texas, one comprising 102,480 acres and the other 96,786 acres
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July 14, 2023
The 3D vessel Sanco Swift mobilized for the survey in April and is expected to complete acquisition near the end of July. The subsurface data is acquired with PGS’ market-leading ultra-high-resolution 3D (UHR3D) P-cable system, which provides significantly more detailed subsurface data for shallow targets, compared to traditional seismic acquisition systems.
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July 14, 2023
bp will lead the development, construction and operations of these fixed-bottom offshore wind projects, with grid connection targeted by end 2030. bp’s global offshore wind pipeline now totals up to 9.2GW net to bp.
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July 13, 2023
Generating 3.3 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, the Jiangsu Rudong offshore wind transmission program will meet the energy needs of 140,000 households, reducing up to 1.83 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, which is equivalent to removing 400,000 cars off the streets .
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July 12, 2023
With capacities of 2 GW and 1 GW respectively, these two offshore wind farms will provide a volume of electricity equivalent to the consumption of over 3,000,000 homes.
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July 06, 2023
Avangrid has awarded TDI-Brooks a shallow water geotechnical site investigation survey at block OCSA-0508, also known as Kitty Hawk Wind. The data collected will inform the design of the export cable and inter-array packages.
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July 04, 2023
Together with input from offshore wind project developers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of substations, and transportation and installation (T&I) companies, ABS developed the Requirements for Offshore Substations and Electrical Service Platforms, which addresses not only fixed bottom substations but also includes new information for the rapidly increasing project size of global floating projects.
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July 03, 2023
PGS was awarded a large offshore wind farm site characterization contract in the U.S. by a renewable energy company. PGS will use the Sanco Swift, which is rigged as an offshore wind site characterization vessel.
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June 30, 2023
Seaway7’s scope of work includes the transport, logistics and installation of 95 monopile foundations, associated seabed preparation and scour protection along with the engineering, supply and installation of the 95 inner-array cables.
