Floating Wind and the Taming of Subsea Spaghetti
100 turbines with 4-5 mooring lines each, there is going to be a lot of subsea “spaghetti.” It’s not a problem unique to the industry, but large floating wind farms will face the issue at a scale beyond that of fixed wind or O&G.Ambroise Wattez, Director of Project Development at SBM Offshore, says a gigawatt floating wind farm would typically have 200 anchors and 200 kilometers of mooring lines. Basic principles and procedures have generally been adapted from O&G installations where there is a long track record of deploying mooring systems and hooking-up floating platforms with
Vallourec Wins ExxonMobil’s Whiptail Order Offshore Guyana
been made since 2015.In April, ExxonMobil has awarded major contracts for the development of the Whiptail field, including subsea production system scope to TechnipFMC, TCP Deal for Strohm, as well as the construction and installation of the FPSO Jaguar that will be deployed on the field awarded to SBM Offshore.TechnipFMC Picks Up ‘Large’ Subsea Contract for ExxonMobil’s Whiptail Off GuyanaStrohm Reels In ExxonMobil’s Third TCP Deal Offshore GuyanaSBM Offshore Hooks ExxonMobil’s Jaguar FPSO ContractSaipem Gets Go-Ahead for ExxonMobil’s Guyana Oil Developmen
Asso.subsea Wraps Up Subsea Cables Installation at French Floating Wind Pilot
Grand Large offshore wind project is owned by Parc Eolien Offshore de Provence Grand Large, an EDF Renewables subsidiary, in partnership with Enbridge Eolien France 2 (EEF2), which is a subsidiary Enbridge and CPP Investments.The floating wind farm features three tension leg floaters, developed SBM Offshore in cooperation with IFP Energies Nouvelle, each supporting 8.4 MW wind turbine generator supplied by Siemens Gamesa.Provence Grand Large Floating Wind Farm Foundations Floated OutProvence Grand Large is expected to produce the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of 45,000 inhabitants
TechnipFMC Picks Up ‘Large’ Subsea Contract for ExxonMobil’s Whiptail Off Guyana
.Saipem’s scope of work entails the detailed Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation (EPCI) of a subsea production facility, and the company said it will use its FDS2 vessels, Castorone and Constellation, for the offshore installation.ExxonMobil also awarded a contract to SBM Offshore to construct and install the Jaguar FPSO for the Whiptail project.The FPSO will be designed to produce 250,000 barrels of oil per day, and will have associated gas treatment capacity of 540 million cubic feet per day with water injection capacity of 300,000 barrels per day.The unit will be spread
Floating Production – A Growing Segment in Transition
developed in South Korea and Europe.Finally, we are seeing a trend of certain key players in the floating production segment to leverage their expertise for executing challenging and large projects in deep water into the floating wind space, including Petrobras, Shell, TotalEnergies, Equinor, CNOOC, SBM Offshore, MODEC and BW Offshore.Competing for the Same Supply ChainsThe growth in activity in both the floating production and the floating wind segments will drive increased demand for engineering services, shipyard and port capacity, mooring system supply, dynamic subsea cables and specialist installation
TechnipFMC Gets Notice to Proceed, Wins More Work at Exxon's Yellowtail Project Offshore Guyana
in April made a final investment for the Yellowtail. ExxonMobil said that the Yellowtail project would produce about 250,000 barrels of oil per day starting in 2025. The FPSO to be built for the project would be named ONE GUYANA.This will be Guyana's fourth FPSO, and the fourth delivered by SBM Offshore, after Liza Destiny, Liza Unity, and the under-construction Prosperity.TechnipFMC to Deliver Subsea Production System for Guyana's Fourth Offshore Developmen
Fugro's Augmented Reality Camera to Assist with Sepetiba FPSO Mooring
(40 %) with the following partners: Shell Brasil (20 %), TotalEnergies (20 %), CNODC (10 %) and CNOOC Limited (10 %), together with state-owned company Pré-sal Petróleo S.A. – PPSA – as the manager of the production sharing contract.The Sepetiba FPSO, to be delivered by SBM Offshore, will have a processing capacity of up to 180,000 barrels of oil per day, a water injection capacity of 250,000 barrels per day, an associated gas treatment capacity of 12 million standard cubic meters per day, and a minimum storage capacity of 1.4 million barrels of crude oil. The FPSO will be
Deploying ROVs and AUVs from USVs
Sea Observer Compact, operating,” Mouries adds. Indeed, following the work with NPCC, in 2018, Marine Tech has also delivered an RSV Sea Observer Compact, at 3.2m-long, with a BlueROV2 onboard to IMODCO (an offshore loading terminal technology firm owned by floating production technology company SBM Offshore). For IMODCO, it’s being used as part of the maintenance of offshore loading/offloading buoys, including single mooring line surveys. Again, it’s still being used since going into work two years’ ago. “We’ve been working nearly 10 years in this field,&rdquo
Deploying ROVs and AUVs from USVs
Sea Observer Compact, operating,” Mouries adds. Indeed, following the work with NPCC, in 2018, Marine Tech has also delivered an RSV Sea Observer Compact, at 3.2m-long, with a BlueROV2 onboard to IMODCO (an offshore loading terminal technology firm owned by floating production technology company SBM Offshore). For IMODCO, it’s being used as part of the maintenance of offshore loading/offloading buoys, including single mooring line surveys. Again, it’s still being used since going into work two years’ ago. “We’ve been working nearly 10 years in this field,&rdquo
February 2025
