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OEG acquires offshore wind O&M specialists Offshore Painting Services

Wind Energy – Acquisition

OEG Energy Group announced that it has completed the acquisition of Offshore Painting Services (OPS Wind), a leading provider of specialist operations & maintenance (O&M) and training services to the offshore wind sector.

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Noble shrinks North Sea fleet with new European contracts

Fossil Energy – Drilling

Offshore drilling contractor Noble has recently secured two new contracts for its 350-ft jack up Noble Resolve, which will see the unit move to two different countries outside of the North Sea region, first in Q4 2024 and then in Q2 2025.

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EIB provides €450 million to Prysmian to promote European energy transition

General – Finance

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Prysmian have signed a new, €450 million finance contract to facilitate electricity transmission and distribution in Europe.

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Entrion Wind explores foundation technology with Simply Blue Group

Wind Energy – Foundation Technology

Entrion Wind is exploring the feasibility of the FRP monopile foundation technology with leading offshore wind developer, Simply Blue Group.

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Nearly $50 million funding opportunity USA

Wind Energy – Funding USA

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) announced the Offshore Wind National and Regional Research and Development Funding Opportunity, which will award $48.6 million for projects that address several major areas of need for offshore wind.

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BOEM announces next steps for offshore wind in GoM

Wind Energy – Gulf of Mexico

Yesterday, The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that the agency received an unsolicited lease request from Hecate Energy to acquire commercial wind energy lease(s) on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Test world’s first electricity grid-scale device

Renewable Energy – Wave Energy

Marine hydrokinetics pioneer, Ocean Energy USA LLC (part of Ocean Energy Group Ireland), announced that it has successfully deployed its 826-ton wave energy convertor buoy, the OE-35, at the US Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) on the windward coast of the Hawaiian Island of Oahu.

Source: Ocean Energy Group.
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