Offshore Wind

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March 17, 2022
The government is also considering changing the rules that govern the award of new permits for North Sea oil and gas fields, so that it can speed up the exploitation of domestic hydrocarbons.

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March 02, 2022
TotalEnergies has joined Trident Winds Inc. in the Castle Wind joint venture for the development of a 1 GW offshore wind project off the coast of Morro Bay, off the Central California Coast.

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March 01, 2022
TerraSond Ltd. plans to invest in a new base in Massachusetts as part of its commitment to support the Vineyard Wind 1 project and wider U.S. offshore wind developments.

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February 28, 2022
Located up to 47 nautical miles (87 kilometers) from the coast, the lease covers a 132 square mile area that could accommodate a generation capacity of at least 3 GW, enough to provide power to about one million homes.

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February 25, 2022
National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Erik Milito believes the conclusion of the New York Bight offshore wind lease auction is a testament to how bright the American offshore wind outlook is.

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February 24, 2022
Now, oil companies that have decades of expertise pulling crude from coastal waters are turning their attention to wind. Oil companies can drill wells that turn up empty, but renewable firms know the wind is there. They just have to harness it.

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February 18, 2022
Tenaris plans to invest $190 million for the construction of a wind farm located in Adolfo Gonzales Chaves, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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February 15, 2022
Proserv Controls has secured a contract from DEME Offshore for the provision of the inter-array cable monitoring system for the first two phases of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which when complete will be the largest offshore wind farm.

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January 17, 2022
Scotland awarded rights for a massive offshore wind development more than twice the size of the UK’s current capacity, in a move that surprised the market for its scale and was welcomed by environmentalists.

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January 14, 2021
Under the award, Equinor and partner BP will provide generation capacity totaling 3.3 gigawatts (GW) of power to the state of New York.
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November 20, 2019
Rovco has utilized its technology and subsea expertise to inspect all 56 turbines at the Galloper Wind Farm, which generates enough green electricity to power the equivalent of 380,000 homes.

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October 30, 2019
ABB has been selected by energy companies SSE Renewables and Equinor to supply its high-voltage direct current (HVDC) Light converter systems to connect the world’s largest offshore wind farms in the Dogger Bank region of the North Sea to the UK transmission network.

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October 25, 2019
Offshore wind power will expand impressively over the next two decades, boosting efforts to decarbonize energy systems and reduce air pollution as it becomes a growing part of electricity supply, according to an International Energy Agency report.

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October 11, 2019
Equinor made a final decision to invest in floating wind turbines to power offshore oil platforms off Norway after the government agreed to subsidize a large part of the cost.
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September 03, 2019
National Oilwell Varco has been awarded equipment package and design orders for one of the world’s largest offshore wind turbine installation vessels by Japanese-based Shimizu Corporation.
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August 15, 2019
The annals of green energy are filled with failures. Many ideas struggled to move from the lab to the factory.
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April 19, 2017
The DNV GL-led joint industry project for wind powered water injection (WIN WIN) has completed its first phase and determined that wind power could be used to power offshore water injection.
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March 23, 2017
Oil companies are starting to challenge the biggest utilities in the race to erect wind turbines at sea.
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February 24, 2017
Offshore wind companies have spent years struggling to convince skeptics that the future of U.S. energy should include giant windmills at sea.