Focus on Offshore Oil, Gas and Renewables Operations
OFFSHORE WEEK
This month’s focus on the offshore sector includes reviews of vessels in the extraction and maintenance sectors. A new diamond mining vessel begins operations in Namibia as China places a large-capacity jackup drilling rig into service in home waters. Maintenance support newbuilds meanwhile include a Chinese platform supply vessel (PSV), a Norwegian-owned service operation vessel (SOV), and a crewboat for deployment in Taiwan.
OSVs • Exploration • Extraction • Processing • Construction • Storage • Operations • Renewables
We also have a scheduled feature on an innovative project in Australia wherein energy from ocean waves can be utilised as an alternative source of electricity for commercial use. Similar technologies are also undergoing development in other countries. However, this will be among the first applications of wave energy besides installation on seagoing vessels.
Vessel Reviews:
- Benguela Gem – Debmarine Namibia’s newest vessel to undertake seabed diamond recovery
- Zhenhai Liu Hao – New Chinese-built jackup boasts 10,000 metres maximum drilling depth
- CWind Pesanach – Fast, versatile crewboat for Taiwanese waters
- Edda Breeze – Edda Wind hydrogen-ready, walk-to-work vessel that can house 120 personnel
- Guohai Minle – Chinese platform supplier with flexible liquid cargo capability
Features and Opinion:
– “The technology produces clean, sustainable electricity without the use of any oil or other contaminants or moving parts in the water.”
– “Ocean Infinity has embarked on an ambitious public relations campaign to emphasise its claims to be transforming the entire marine industry, and a drive to collect yet more government subsidies.”
– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime‘s anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations
News and Gear:
- UK deploys windfarm service vessels in response to Channel migrant crisis
- James Fisher, NMDC Group to collaborate on offshore projects
- FPSO suffers fire damage while under construction in Norway
- Offshore Vessel News Roundup | August 9 – Crewboats for the Netherlands, UK and Taiwan, vessel refit for Swiss survey specialist
- Offshore Projects News Roundup | August 5 – Succession of installation works in Europe and the Americas, surveys in Eastern Hemisphere
- Offshore Vessel Charters News Roundup | August 4 – Accommodation contracts in the Americas, subsea support charter in Brazil, new heavy transporter for Norwegian operator
- RWE to test hydrogen production technology on proposed offshore wind farm
Recent Important Features:
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– “As usual, whistle-blowers put their lives on the line to expose the truth, and as usual, they were threatened and abused, and worse.”
– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime‘s anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations
Call for content!
Any news or views about the global offshore industry? Send it through to [email protected] ASAP (between now and August 15), so we can add it to this current edition of Offshore Week!
We are after:
- Vessels – Orders, new deliveries, under construction
- Gear – Latest innovations and technology in the offshore vessel sector
- Interviews – Owners, operators, designers, builders etc.
- Reminiscences – Do you have any exciting, amusing or downright dangerous anecdotes from your time in the offshore world? (example here)
- Other – Any other relevant news
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