One Big Beautiful Bill

Offshore Energy Security Act aims to get offshore oil and gas lease sales moving

While the Biden administration has been all systems go on offshore wind leasing that’s not been the case with offshore oil and gas lease auctions. Two U.S. senators want to change that.

Biden gets an explainer on subsea rock installer

Biden at Philly Shipyard for GLDD subsea rock installer steel cut

President Joe Biden visited Philly Shipyard, Thursday, as the yard and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) celebrated the cutting of first steel for the first Jones Act-compliant subsea rock installer

Klein talks Gulf of Maine offshore wind

BOEM sets date for Gulf of Mexico offshore wind lease sale

The U.S. Department of the Interior said today that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold the first-ever offshore wind energy lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico on August 29,

Scott Chewning on offshore wind and ports

Op-Ed: Ports, maritime and offshore wind capabilities

By Scott Chewning, PE, LEED AP, Project Manager, Burns & McDonnell As the saying goes in the industry, “There is no offshore wind without ports.”  A port, whether private or public, is

Rendering of subsea IMR USV

Could this USV be a subsea IMR game changer?

In what they believe could be a game changer in subsea inspection maintenance and repair (subsea IMR), some leading players in the Norwegian offshore cluster have formed USV AS. Formed by DeepOcean,

Rendering of Revolution Wind offshore wind farm

Revolution Wind passes major regulatory milestone

Ørsted and Eversource’s Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island is on track to become the fourth commercial-scale offshore wind project on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf to be approved

Cold stacked floater chart

Offshore drilling: More cold-stack floaters set for reactivation?

With demand for offshore drilling rigs pushing up, will more drilling contractors start reactivating cold-stacked floaters? London-based Maritime Strategies International (MSI) says that, while the market for floaters has long since crossed

HAV Design SOV

HAV Design chosen for second methanol-fueled SOV

The second methanol-fueled hybrid service operation vessel (SOV) that Esvagt recently ordered at Turkey’s Cemre Shipyard will, like its sister ship set for delivery next year, be built to a design developed

Vessel after OSV to SOV conversion

Hornbeck Offshore Services taps Eastern for OSV to SOV conversion

Panama City, Fla., headquartered Eastern Shipbuilding Group has been contracted by Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. to convert a 280-foot offshore supply vessel (OSV) to a service operation vessel (SOV). The 280-foot vessel

N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy

N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy signs measure giving Ørsted a tax break

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on July 6 signed a package of bills that included one which, according to his office, “will enable New Jersey’s first offshore wind project, Ocean Wind 1,

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