Offshore staff
ABERDEEN, UK — TEXO Engineering & Fabrication (TEXO E&F) has signed a memorandum of understanding to become Mocean Energy’s preferred fabrication, assembly and load-out contractor for its Blue Star and Blue Horizon wave energy converters.
TEXO E&F was already providing technical support for the design of Mocean’s products for manufacture. The two parties intend to put in place a formal fabrication and assembly contract following design completion.
Mocean has developed wave energy converters to power ocean equipment. Blue Star is a device that will power a range of subsea equipment, including autonomous vehicles and control systems, and Blue Horizon is a larger machine designed to generate grid-scale electricity in off-coast wave farms.
Following deployment of the BlueX prototype demonstrator in Orkney, northern Scotland, in 2021, Mocean has recently started a further deployment offshore Orkney connected with a Halo underwater battery developed by Verlume in Aberdeen.
The £2 million ($2.46 million) demonstrator project, Renewables for Subsea Power, is a consortium that includes Verlume, Baker Hughes, Serica Energy, Harbour Energy, Transmark Subsea, and the Net Zero Technology Centre.
03.29.2023
