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  • Volume 82, Issue 4, July-August 2022

    Norway, UK investment to reach $32 billion by 2025
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    Offshore Oil And Gas Industry
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    The modified Njord A drilling/production platform back on location in the Norwegian Sea.
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    More content from Volume 82, Issue 4, July-August 2022

    Courtesy Saitec
    The Green Energy Research for Offshore Atlantic (GEROA) project is Saitec's next step in the development of the SATH technology for floating offshore wind. This 45-MW pre-commercial floating wind farm is expected to be the first offshore wind farm in Spain. As part of the prior environmental characterization (pictured), bird and cetacean monitoring work has begun in the proximities of GEROA installation location.
    Fortunately, greater information allows project planners to adapt.
    Aug. 1, 2022
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    For many operators, it represents the first step in the abatement process.
    Aug. 1, 2022
    Courtesy TotalEnergies
    TotalEnergies has been working with its partners to develop its drone-based AUSEA greenhouse-gas quantification technology.
    UAVs are being utilized offshore as the safer, more cost-efficient option.
    Aug. 1, 2022
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    Well abandonment accounts for some $3.4 billion.
    Aug. 1, 2022
    Courtesy Oceaneering
    The Freedom AUV recently completed a subsea pipeline inspection campaign in an operational environment.
    Pipeline survey is latest milestone for Oceaneering’s Freedom AUV.
    Aug. 1, 2022
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    New partnership model considers vessel’s entire lifecycle.
    Aug. 1, 2022
    Courtesy EM&I
    EM&I says that its Integrity Class ROVs are fitted with a wide range of tools to tackle almost any task required and special thrusters to work at any angle.
    Diverless, remote methods help keep rigs, hulls operational while still in the field.
    Aug. 1, 2022
    Courtesy RenewableUK
    Global Operational Portfolio By Country (mw)
    The global pipeline of offshore wind projects has increased from 429 GW of capacity a year ago to 846 GW today.
    Aug. 1, 2022
    Courtesy RigPoint by IHS Markit
    Offshore Drilling Rig Market Chart
    The offshore drilling market has improved its position over the last few months.
    Aug. 1, 2022
    Courtesy Esgian Rig Analytics
    New Offshore Rig Backlog Has Slowed Since April
    With almost 53 rig-years of work added in April 2022, it was the month that saw the largest increase in new backlog over the past year.
    Aug. 1, 2022
    Courtesy Teekay
    The FPSO Sevan Hummingbird will be modified to serve the Avalon development in the central UK North Sea.
    Nine new field developments should come onstream this year in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico.
    Aug. 1, 2022
    Courtesy TechnipFMC
    iEPCI is TechnipFMC’s approach to subsea developments, which integrates subsea production system and SURF offerings, from design to life-of-field services.
    The latest subsea systems technology developments, projects and advances being utilized in the offshore energy industry.
    Aug. 1, 2022
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    Seadrill’s West Saturn drillship is currently working under a four-year contract from Equinor for drilling campaigns related to the Bacalhau project offshore Brazil.
    Two key Equinor field development projects offshore Brazil are driving deepwater rig contracting activity, according to Evercore ISI’s July Offshore Rig Market Snapshot.
    Aug. 1, 2022
    Photo by Jan Arne Wold,Woldcam/Courtesy Equinor
    Four of the seven turbines for the Hywind Tampen project are now in place 140 km offshore western Norway.
    Equinor expects to start up the first seven turbines for the Hywind Tampen wind farm in the North Sea in the current quarter, with the remaining four to be installed next spring...
    Aug. 1, 2022
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    Business Briefs
    The latest company news and personnel moves from the offshore industry.
    Aug. 1, 2022
    Beyond The Horizon
    Although far less integrated than fuels such as LPG or LNG because of a need to upgrade and develop the right infrastructure, there is a growing interest in producing hydrogen...
    Aug. 1, 2022