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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is designing a new Recreational Offshore Landing Permit (ROLP) website. The new site is meant to improve the quality of the permit holder database, update aspects of the permit to comply with recent legislative changes, improve the look and feel of the site, and make it mobile-friendly. The new website is scheduled to go live by late April.

The changes will require sub-account ROLP permit holders to take action to prevent the deletion of their account. Previously, a single ROLP account (primary account) could include multiple permit holders (sub-accounts). In the new website, each ROLP account will be limited to one ROLP permit. Sub-accounts will be deleted from the system on Friday, March 25, 2022 unless the sub-account holder moves their account to a primary account.

The only method of making a sub-account a primary account is for the primary account holder to log-in to their account (https://rolp.wlf.la.gov/), find the sub-account, and click on the Move to another account icon shown below.

Click on the EXPORT TO NEW ACCOUNT button in the next page.

The website allows only one ROLP account per email address. Consequently, the new primary account must use a unique email address.

Once a unique email address has been entered and a password has been created, click the checkmark in the lower, right-hand corner of the webpage. You will be returned to the original primary account profile.

All ROLP accounts will be impacted by the ROLP website migration to some degree or another. Additional news releases will be published to guide permit holders through the process. The migration is expected to be completed by the end of April.

The ROLP is a free permit that is required in addition to all other applicable licenses and/or permits to possess the following offshore fish species or species groups in Louisiana state waters:

The ROLP was developed to better quantify and characterize the charter and recreational anglers that fish beyond Louisianas territorial waters and plays a critical role in States LA Creel Program.

For questions or assistance, contact LDWF at rolp@wlf.la.gov.

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By Denny Jacob

W&T Offshore Inc. shares rose 4.6% to $6.18 in Tuesday's after-hours trading session after the oil-and-natural gas producer logged higher revenue and swung to a profit in the fourth quarter.

The company posted net income of $48.9 million, or per-share earnings of 34 cents, for the quarter ended Dec. 31, compared to a net loss of $38 million, or a per-share loss of 27 cents, in the year-ago period. Adjusted per-share earnings were 10 cents. Analysts polled by FactSet expected 3 cents.

Revenue rose to $165.6 million from $133.9 million. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $137.1 million.

W&T Offshore said it increased production by 7% to 3.4 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in the fourth quarter compared to the prior quarter.

"Entering 2022, we are encouraged with the strong pricing environment which, together with the additional production volumes from our recently completed acquisition and our Cota well which was placed online this month, should allow us to generate increased cash flow this year," Chief Executive Tracy Krohn said in prepared remarks.

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Key Market Dynamics:

Factors such as the increasing investments in enhancing network infrastructure are driving the market. The oil and gas industry has relied on its own telecommunications networks for decades. These networks are used for handling day-to-day operations and coordinating emergency assistance. Many mission-critical networks face the need to modernize. The demands related to infrastructures, such as real-time data, sophisticated control and monitoring closer to the network edge, and high-level security, are increasing significantly. The need for good communication is also important. Oil and gas field communications necessitate dependable, durable, and high-capacity wireless networks that can operate across broad areas and in harsh environments.

Factors such as increasing cybersecurity riskswill challenge market growth. Cyber attackers have been targeting crude oil and gas businesses. Development drilling and production have the highest cyber risk profiles among upstream operations, while seismic imaging has a lower risk profile. The increased need to digitize, eStore, and integrate seismic data into other disciplines could increase the company's risk profile in the future. Apart from its critical infrastructure classification, the upstream industry's sophisticated computation, networking, and physical operational procedures scattered throughout the world make it highly vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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Market Segmentation

By application, the offshore oil and gas communications market report is segmented into upstream, midstream, and downstream. The upstream segment will have significant market share growth during the forecast period. Improved upstream communication systems have enabled subsea advances and remote unmanned offshore sector tasks to be revolutionized. As more oil and gas projects are being built worldwide, the upstream offshore oil and gas communications market segment is likely to grow.

By geography, the market has been segmented into North America, Middle East and Africa, APAC, South America, and Europe.North Americawill be the leading region with 42% of the market's growth during the forecast period. The US and Canada are the key countries for the offshore oil and gas communications market inNorth America.

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Offshore Oil And Gas Communications Market Scope

Report Coverage

Details

Page number

120

Base year

2021

Forecast period

2022-2026

Growth momentum & CAGR

Decelerate at a CAGR of 6.64%

Market growth 2022-2026

USD 1.35 billion

Market structure

Fragmented

YoY growth (%)

7.58

Regional analysis

North America, Middle East and Africa, APAC, South America, and Europe

Performing market contribution

North America at 42%

Key consumer countries

US, Canada, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and China

Competitive landscape

Leading companies, competitive strategies, consumer engagement scope

Companies profiled

ABB Ltd., AT and T Inc., Baker Hughes Co., Ceragon Networks Ltd., CommScope Holding Co. Inc., Commtel Networks, EchoStar Corp., General Electric Co., Hitachi Ltd., Honeywell International Inc., Mostar Communications, PTC Inc., Redline Communications Group Inc., Siemens AG, Speedcast International Ltd., Tait International Ltd., Viasat Inc., Weatherford International Plc, Curtiss Wright Corp., and Huawei Investment and Holding Co. Ltd.

Market Dynamics

Parent market analysis, Market growth inducers and obstacles, Fast-growing and slow-growing segment analysis, COVID-19 impact and future consumer dynamics, market condition analysis for the forecast period.

Customization purview

If our report has not included the data that you are looking for, you can reach out to our analysts and get segments customized.

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1 Executive Summary

2 Market Landscape

3 Market Sizing

4 Five Forces Analysis

5 Market Segmentation by Application

6 Customer Landscape

7 Geographic Landscape

8 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends

9 Vendor Landscape

10 Vendor Analysis

11 Appendix

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The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) announced that its third solicitation with a capacity target of 1,200 megawatts for New Jerseys offshore wind (OSW) development will now be released by January 2023, instead of the previously announced September 2022 date, to account for its ongoing transmission-planning efforts.

NJBPUs updated timeline takes into consideration New Jerseys ongoing offshore coordinated transmission solution efforts. In January 2021, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for approval of a study agreement that would begin the implementation of a State Agreement Approach (SAA) to explore new collaborative frameworks to advance offshore wind energy and enable New Jerseys offshore wind goals to be incorporated into the PJM transmission-planning process. Under the SAA, PJM and the NJBPU asked developers to propose the optimal mix of onshore and offshore transmission facilities that provide the most economically efficient and reliable way of delivering power from offshore wind turbines to New Jersey customers.1 Developers were asked to propose:

New Jersey is the first state within PJM to request that PJM initiate an SAA under the PJM Operating Agreement. On February 16, 2021, FERC accepted the SAA study approach.

Also in January 2022, PJM asked FERC (with the support of the NJBPU and other New Jersey state and environmental-sector stakeholders) to (1) accept and to allow PJM and the NJBPU to implement a proposed definitive SAA; (2) issue a favorable order on the SAA by April 15, 2022; and (3) permit the transmission planning that results from the SAA to be included in PJMs regional transmission expansion plan. PJM will review the more than 80 different proposals that were submitted by transmission developers for consideration in its SAA process; will provide its recommendations to the state; and New Jersey will select the best transmission solutions, the costs of which will be assigned only to New Jersey ratepayers.

Even though PJMs SAA process may result in more efficient and resilient transmission for OSW, FERCs SAA proceeding has attracted dozens of interventions and comments. In answers to those filings, PJM and the NJBPU have stated that the FERC acceptance of the SAA would not establish a rate, or even a specific methodology for rate design, and that the costs of a project that is adopted under the SAA will not be cross-subsidized by out-of-state ratepayers of non-New Jersey utilities in PJM.

The NJBPUs updated timeline for its next solicitation allows for the SAA process to be completed and the outcome to be incorporated into the third solicitation guidance documents.

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A barrier that I have faced, and I know other women have as well, is proving new ideas.

You know the idea is good and works, but you have to prove and implement it before getting people on board. This is difficult because youre often doing it alone and with little help. This is where having a good mindset can change things.

I look at the cycle of learning (learn, unlearn, relearn) and try to promote this regularly. It pushes people beyond their comfort zone and encourages an environment that reaches for new ideas.

So I try to lead by example. I go ahead, create the space for this idea, and prove it works for our clients.

Note: This gallery was originally published as part of our US Offshore Top 20 Women Leaders publication in October 2020.

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The first wind turbine components, a number of tower sections, for the 450 Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm have arrived at the Port of Dundee in Scotland.

Jointly owned by EDF Renewables and ESB and under construction 15 kilometres off the coast of Fife, NnG will comprise 54 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines expected to deliver first power in 2023 and be fully commissioned in 2024.

Over the next few months, a total of 162 tower sections, 162 blades, and 54 nacelles will be delivered from Siemens Gamesa.

A total of 72 turbine tower sections and 36 blades are due to travel up the River Tay by barge in March and be brought alongside the new DunEco Quay. They will be imported onto Scotlands new, custom-built wind turbine marshalling facility.

NnGs 54 turbine towers will be assembled at the Port of Dundee before being placed on a specialist wind turbine installation vessel alongside nacelles and turbine blades which will transport them to, and install, the turbines at the site of the offshore wind farm.

NnGs two offshore substations will soon be commissioned and energised with further drilling, piling, and grouting work on the foundations carried out.

The 54 jacket foundations, on which the turbines will sit, will be installed in 2023.

Onshore, the projects new substation will be finished in 2022 as will the newOperations and Maintenance Buildingat Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders.

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Vattenfall plans to replace a 28-turbine, 16.8MW nearshore wind farm with 24 turbines totalling 132MW.

The Swedish developer has begun dismantling the Nordtank NTK600/43 turbines at the16.8MW Irene Vorrink Irene Vorrink (16.8MW) Offshoreoff Lelystad, Flevoland, Netherlands, Europe Click to see full details wind farm in the IJsselmeerdijk in the north of the Netherlands. It aims to have taken them all down by April.

It will replace them with 24 of GEs 5.5-158 turbines, located between 500 and 1,500 metres from the shore. It does not need further permitting approvals to do this, and aims to begin installation in spring 2023, ahead of commissioning in the first quarter of 2024.

Vattenfall will own 14 of the new turbines, while Swifterwint a group of more than 170 local farmers and residents will own the other ten.

The projects initial 28 turbines were connected to the dyke north of Lelystad by drawbridges. During the wind farms 25-year operational lifetime, ice build-up twice lifted some of the drawbridges but because the bridges were only hinged on one end, there was no damage to the bridges, the dyke or the turbines.

Although the old turbines will be removed, part of their monopiles and cables will be left behind. Vattenfall wanted to remove these components, but central government agency Rijkswaterstaat and regional water authority the Zuiderzeeland Water Board were concerned that the vibration equipment needed to remove the foundations could have damaged the dyke.

Vattenfall aims to recycle as much of the turbines as possible, it stated. This will be easy for components such as the tower and nacelle, according to Matthew May, who is supervising the repowering project as part of Vattenfalls construction management team.

However, recycling the blades will be more difficult. May added: We are in discussion with a few parties to have all the blades recycled into high-quality raw materials for completely new products.

Irene Vorrink was first commissioned in 1997, making it one of the worlds earliest offshore wind farms. The worlds first offshore wind farm, Vindeby, was commissioned in 1991 anddecommissioned in 2017, while another early project, Bockstigen, was commissioned in 1998 andrepowered the following in 2018.

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The developers of the 2 GW West of Orkney wind farm offshore Scotland have shared more information on the project through the recently published documents.

In January, the Offshore Wind Power Limited (OWPL) consortium comprising Macquaries Green Investment Group, TotalEnergies, and Scottish offshore wind developer RIDG secured rights in the Crown Estate Scotlands ScotWind leasing round to develop the offshore windfarm around 30 kilometres off the west coast of Orkney and around 25 kilometres from the north Caithness coast.

The consortium has already undertaken surveys and studies, especially in relation to the environment, to ensure that the project fully meets its sustainable development objectives, and last week they submitted an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Scoping Report to Marine Scotland, Orkney Islands Council and The Highland Council detailing all of the studies and surveys they will undertake in the years ahead.

The project is currently considering both fixed-bottom foundations and floating substructures for the wind turbines. The water depths across the site range from 45 metres to 100 metres.

At present, it is anticipated that water depths under 70 metres will be suitable for fixed-bottom foundations and depths of over 55 metres are suitable for floating foundations.

There is an overlap in the viability of fixed-bottom foundations and floating foundations in relation to water depth.

The final technology selection will be driven by a series of environmental, technical and commercial variables. There is the potential for each foundation technology to be used for all the wind turbines or a combination of both technologies, according to the scoping report.

The wind farm will comprise up to 125 wind turbines, meaning the minimum individual capacity of the turbines will be 16 MW, up to five offshore substation platforms and up to two onshore substations, up to 750 kilometres of inter-array cables, and up to ten export cables, including up to five to a landfall at Caithness, up to five to a landfall at Flotta via onshore sections across Hoy and potentially Fara.

The maximum rotor diameter of the wind turbines will be up to 330 metres, and the maximum rotor tip height up to 370 metres.

As part of the proposal, the consortium said that it designed a supply chain strategy specifically to bring together a unique combination of stakeholders to maximise the opportunities for the region.

The partners have already committed to a GBP 140 million initiative during the initial phase of the project to develop the supply chain, drive skills development and create opportunities for businesses and organisations in Caithness and Orkney, across Scotland and the rest of the UK.

The consortium has also finalised a grid connection agreement with National Grid, with a connection point in Caithness, and once built, the offshore wind farm could also deliver renewable power to the Flotta Hydrogen Hub, a proposed large-scale green hydrogen production facility on Orkney.

Developers are now launching a series of public consultation events where local communities and stakeholders can find out more about the project and ask questions.

The first virtual public exhibition is scheduled for March 21.

We are really keen to hear local views on our proposals, said Stephen Kerr, Project Director of the West of Orkney Windfarm.

The virtual exhibition will open on March 21 and will include two live question and answer sessions on March 29 where people can hear directly from project staff and ask any questions they may have.

The consortium plans to produce first power at the wind farm in 2029.

Once fully commissioned, the project will be capable of powering the equivalent of more than two million homes.

There is currently only one wind farm in operation that combines fixed-bottom and floating wind technology.

Last year, Chinas China Three Gorges commissioned the pilot anti-typhoon floating wind turbine at the Yangxi Shapa III wind farm.

This was also the first project globally where a floating wind turbine was connected to a fixed-bottom turbine.

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A final investment decision (FID) on the Hyoffwind project in Belgium, which entails linking offshore wind power production to a hydrogen production facility, is expected to be made this year, after the project consortium receives a permit for which it applied in 2021.

The permit application process started in late 2021 and the consortium consisting of Virya Energy (parent company of Parkwind) and Fluxys said it expected to receive the permit by mid-2022 and to make the final investment decision in the course of 2022.

The final investment decision is also subject to the granting of subsidies by the Flemish government under the recovery plan, the consortium noted. These subsidies amount to EUR 23 million, which the Flemish Ministry for Economy and Innovation will provide under the Flemish recovery plan via the European call for IPCEIs, whose first series of projects must now be approved by the European Commission.

This will follow a grant awarded to Hyoffwind in 2020, when the Flemish government allocated EUR 8 million in strategic ecological aid to the project.

Hyoffwind involves industrial-scale conversion of electricity produced by offshore wind to green hydrogen with injection in the natural gas transmission grid.

The project will build a facility that can convert 25 MW of electricity into green hydrogen in Zeebrugge, which will act as an energy hub and also has the potential to become a logistics hub for hydrogen-linked applications, according to the developers.

Hyoffwinds feasibility study states that Zeebrugge is the ideal location for power-to-gas because the electrical cables from offshore wind farms arrive on land there. Therefore, the installation will be located near the source of renewable electricity and will be able to facilitate the further integration of renewables in the energy mix.

The project is planned to be built in two phases. The first phase will comprise the 25 MW electrolyser, which the partners aim to scale up to 100 MW in the second phase.

Last month, the Hyoffwind consortium, which has also partnered with Parkwind and Eoly Energy, signed an agreement with John Cockerill and BESIX to design and build the projects green hydrogen production unit in Zeebrugge.

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