Jeremy Cresswell

1 month ago | energyvoice.com | Jeremy Cresswell |Amy Smith

There exists in the US an organisation named the Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI), about which little appears to be known here in the UK; nor do we have anything that can be regarded as its equivalent. Launched in 2013, it basically grew out of the Macondo disaster of April 20 2010, which exposed massive weaknesses in the American approach to offshore safety.

1 month ago | energyvoice.com | Jeremy Cresswell |Amy Smith

The first of two M-class offshore wind turbine installation vessels, Wind Maker, has been delivered to Cadeler of Denmark. The company has also signed the first contracts for its second M-class vessel, Wind Mover, which is also being built in South Korea. Aggregated contracts value is £62million (75million euros). Wind Maker is the sixth vessel in Cadeler’s growing fleet of wind installation vessels; with the seventh and sister ship, Wind Mover, currently scheduled for delivery in Q4 this year.

2 months ago | energyvoice.com | Jeremy Cresswell |Amy Smith

A year ago, Norway became the first country to back deep sea mineral prospecting in its waters, with a government plan to launch an exploration licenses bidding round this year (2025). Barely 11 months later, last December, the Norwegians suspended activity indefinitely, having been sued by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) – the widely respected Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). It was January 2024 when the Storting (Norwegian parliament) voted in favour of opening about 280,000 sq.

2 months ago | energyvoice.com | Jeremy Cresswell |Amy Smith

The UK’s National Grid has reached a milestone in its programme to eliminate sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) from its network with the arrival of the first of two 178 tonne supergrid transformers and Hitachi Econiq SF6-free switchgear, at a new electricity substation being built in the UK capital. National Grid’s construction partner in the 400kV Bengeworth Road substation is Linxon. The project is a part of the £1 billion London Power Tunnels 2 project.

2 months ago | energyvoice.com | Jeremy Cresswell |Amy Smith

Delving into the world of energy science and technology has long been a fascination of mine. It is an interest that personally reaches right back to 1958 in New Zealand. The family lived in Palmerston North at that time; Dad was reading for his PhD at Massey while I and the older of my two sisters were leading an idyllic, semi-feral existence where it was all our poor mother could do to get us to stick on our sandals before heading out to school.