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Offshore Technology explores the systems, engineering practices, innovations and challenges, driving offshore operations across energy and marine sectors. Topics you can expect include subsea engineering, floating production systems, offshore wind technologies, digital monitoring and control systems, and asset integrity management.

Delve into analysis, and insights on emerging technologies improving safety, efficiency, and performance in increasingly harsher offshore environments in the journey to cleaner sustainable energy sources.

Offshore Technology - 2026 - Edition 2

Energy islands: Europe's new frontier

Offshore Technology (Newsletter)
Edition Issue: Edition 2 Publication Year: 2026 Publication Type: Articles

Energy Islands will bring together a number of offshore technologies into a single place (image: Elia)

A new era in offshore power has seen the development of the first Energy Islands off European coasts. The first will be the six-hectare Princess Elisabeth Island, which is under construction 45km off the coast of Belgium and is due to be completed in 2028.

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Retire or repower wind farms?

Offshore Technology (Newsletter)

By Charlie Bartlett

Edition Issue: Edition 2 Publication Year: 2026 Publication Type: Articles

A debate rages over whether to leave turbine monopiles in-situ after turbines are decommissioned (image: Institute of Civil Engineers)

The first wind turbines to be deployed are reaching the end of their operational life. The question is, should the sites be re-used or retired?

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FLNG orders and challenges rising

Offshore Technology (Newsletter)

By Charlie Bartlett

Edition Issue: Edition 1 Publication Year: 2026 Publication Type: Articles

FLNG Prelude is the world's largest floating facility located offshore Australia (image: Shutterstock)

The number of floating LNG projects are increasing fast. Today’s liquefaction capacity is forecast to more than treble from 16 million to 55 million tonnes by 2040.

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