Credit: Saitec
The Government of Canada has approved funding for Waterford Energy Services Inc. (WESI) and Saitec Offshore s project designed to power offshore drilling rigs using a plug-and-play renewable energy solution.
The funding program aimed to support programs that would help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from offshore oil and gas activities in Newfoundland and Labrador. The funds granted to the Saitec-WESI partnership come from a competitive process in which around under a hundred plans were assessed for a pool of $24.4 million. The partnership between WESI and Saitec brings together WESI’s offshore oil and gas engineering and technical know-how with Saitec’s floating wind expertise, the companies said.
RS updates oil-and-gas equipment Rules
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) issues a new updated edition of the Rules for the Oil-and-Gas Equipment (OGE Rules) of Floating Offshore Oil-and-Gas Production Units (FPU), Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODU) and Fixed Offshore Platforms (FOP).
The new edition is accessible at rs-class.org in the Online Information – RS Publications section and enters into force on January 1, 2021.
Possessing hands-on experience in survey of stations for reception/delivery of fluids and free-flowing materials between FPU/MODU/FOP and support vessel, RS has developed and implemented into the new edition of the OGE Rules new requirements concerning hose stations for reception/delivery of drilling mud (mineral oil), waste drilling mud and drilling waste water, open hazardous drainages, process fresh water, as well as for the provision of free-flowing materials (weighting agent, cement) loading and transportation into the pneumatic conveying system