Energy giant Total has said it sees “new potential for investments” in the North Sea off the back of exploration successes in the UK. CEO Patrick Pouyanne addressed delegates yesterday at the opening session of Offshore Europe at P&J Live in Aberdeen. He said, despite the North Sea being perceived [...]

Survey outfit to carry out site investigations for project off Jutland. Danish transmission system operator Energinet has selected marine surveyor MMT to carry out seabed surveys for a new 800MW offshore wind farm off Denmark. MMT will carry out a seabed survey of the project's proposed 440 square kilometre array [...]

Study highlights 46% of land in Europe would be suitable for siting of projects. Analysis from the University of Sussex and Aarhus University has revealed Europe has the capacity to produce more than 100 times the amount of energy it currently produces through onshore wind farms. The study found that [...]

A leading independent supplier of mooring equipment to the global oil and gas industry, has secured a three-year contract with BP for the provision of mooring equipment for its North Sea operations. Steven Brown, managing director for FMS, said “This award demonstrates our capability and capacity to support the mooring [...]

Partnership with SerFac aims to provide efficient project development of offshore wind farm projects. Global Renewables Shipbrokers (GRS) has started a strategic partnership with South Korean wind project development consultancy SerFac. The aim of the cooperation is to provide fast and first-class project development of offshore wind farm projects in [...]

Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has exercised the fourth of six one-month options to extend Prosafe’s Safe Boreas flotel at the Mariner project in the UK sector of the North Sea. Prosafe said on Friday that the unit is being used to accommodate personnel working on Mariner in the [...]

German renewable energy firm PNE AG said today that its Cuxhaven-based services unit Energy consult GmbH is growing its international operations and is now active in five European countries. Since the start of the year, Energy consult has been managing wind turbines with a total capacity of 44.4 MW in [...]

Prosafe’s Safe Boreas accommodation vessel has been given a one-month extension to its time at Equinor’s Mariner field. The firm said the extension is worth £4.1million and means the vessel can accommodate workers for the early production phase at Mariner through to October. Mariner, which lies 95 miles east of [...]

The company will complete shipments of its wind turbine electrical control systems no later than 2020. AMSC has won a $9m order for its 5MW-class wind turbine electrical control systems from South Korean wind turbine maker Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction. AMSC will complete shipments of the follow-on order for [...]

BW Offshore has received a one-year contract extension for the lease of one of its floating, production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. BW Offshore said on Friday that it won an extension for the lease and operation of the FPSO Petróleo Nautipa. The FPSO vessel is currently operating on the [...]

Agreement paves the way for local utility MBCP to be supplied with power from the Morro Bay offshore wind farm. Floating wind power developer Castle Wind has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a Californian utility to enter into a power purchase agreement for output from a 1GW offshore [...]

New onshore and offshore projects boost company's earnings in the first half of 2019 to €466m. New onshore and offshore wind farms helped boost Eon's adjusted earnings from renewables in the first half of the year to €466m from €396m in the same period of 2018. Eon cited increased output [...]