Equinor has acquired a 25 percent interest in Bayou Bend CCS LLC, positioned to be one of the largest US carbon capture and storage projects located along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas.

Global OTEC Resources and ENOGIA have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop key subsystems of the first commercial-scale Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) floating platforms.

TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with CapeOmega Carbon Storage AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of CapeOmega AS, to acquire the 40% participating interest held by CapeOmega in the CO2 storage exploration license ExL004 (the “Luna” project).

Three companies have been offered exploration licenses for CO2 storage in one area in the North Sea. The companies are Sval Energi AS, Storegga Norwary and Neptune Energy Norway.

The Business Network for Offshore Wind has released Unlocking the Gulf of Mexico’s Offshore Wind Energy Potential, a report addressing the region’s unique potential for offshore wind development.

Offshore energy supply chain company, Balmoral, has adapted and transitioned a number of its proven buoyancy and protection solutions for use in the fixed and floating offshore wind sector.

The Windstaller Alliance has successfully completed the installation of the DemoSATH floating offshore wind turbine project located offshore Spain. All three alliance partners – Aker Solutions, DeepOcean and Solstad Offshore – were involved.  

Teams from wind farm owner Northland Power and marine technology company Subsea Europe Services have successfully concluded a pilot project to apply state-of-the-art Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USV) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) to marine survey and underwater inspection operations at the Deutsche Bucht Offshore Wind Farm, located in the German North Sea.

The Correll Group, Electrical Engineering Division is pleased to announce that it has been contracted by Seaway 7 to complete the termination and testing of 29 66kV inter-array cables (IAC) and four landfall export cables on Zhong Neng Offshore Wind Farm.

Salamander, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea 7, has appointed Fugro to conduct a comprehensive metocean survey for the proposed Salamander offshore wind farm project. Located 35 km off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland, the 100 MW project will use innovative floating offshore wind technologies to help Scotland and the UK progress towards a net-zero future.

RelyOn Nutec UK (RelyOn), leaders in practical and digital training for traditional and renewable energy, announces the launch of its technical training programs, backed by £500k of investment in staff, facilities, and equipment.

Wintershall Dea is intensifying its carbon capture and storage (CCS) activities in the Southern North Sea. The company has been awarded a new license by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) to store CO2 under the seabed. The Camelot license’s annual storage potential is up to 6 million tonnes and provides a significant and valuable contribution to the CO2 abatement potential in the UK.

Offshore wind projects taking place in macrotidal environments, such as around the UK, must deal with water level changes of more than four meters every six hours. This extreme tidal range is difficult to compensate for using ballasting, so projects that require load-in or load-out of large jackets are delayed when waters are too high or low, leaving the installation vessel waiting.

Rotech Subsea, the leading provider of innovative subsea trenching and excavation tools to the energy industry, has announced the completion of Sandwave Clearance and Debris Removal Operations at a key offshore wind farm in Taiwan.