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12 April 2023
The Danish Energy Agency has received two final offers in relation to the first tender of the Danish CCUS Fund
The Danish Energy Agency has received offers from I/S Vestforbrænding as well as Ørsted Bioenergy & Thermal Power A/S in relation to the first tender of the Danish CCUS Fund and expects to award a contract in May. On March 31, 2023, the Danish Energy Agency received two final and…
12 April 2023
Global wind energy to top 1 TW threshold by the end of 2023
The global wind energy market will pass the one terawatt (TW) threshold for installed capacity by the end of 2023, according to the latest market outlook from Wood Mackenzie.Full story here.
11 April 2023
UK Oil & Gas PLC ("UKOG" or the "Company") Turkey: Pinarova-1 drilling commences
UK Oil & Gas PLC announced that Pinarova-1 drilling operations commenced at 0800 local time on Friday 7th April, 2023. Drilling of 12¼ inch diameter hole down to the first casing point at a depth of around 300 metres below surface is underway and is expected to take around 8-10…
11 April 2023
Asso.subsea unveils its latest jet-trenching tool AssoJet III Mk2
Asso.subsea, a specialized worldwide contractor in the offshore industry, announces the development of a newly built jetting vehicle for cohesionless soil: AssoJet III Mk2. The AssoJet III Mk2 is the most advanced of the ASSO’s jetting ROVs, based on full in-house design which incorporates the vast Asso Group experience in…
11 April 2023
Harbour Energy and bp agree to develop the Viking CCS project
Harbour Energy and bp are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement to develop the Viking CCS transportation and storage project. Under the terms of the agreement, Harbour continues as operator of Viking CCS with a 60 per cent interest, with bp acquiring a 40 per cent…
11 April 2023
Chevron awards Intermoor extension of decommissioning scope in Thailand
InterMoor, a brand in Acteon’s Engineering, Moorings and Foundations Division, has been awarded a decommissioning contract by Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, Ltd. (CTEP). Following InterMoor’s completion of Phase 1 decommissioning work in 2021 in the Gulf of Thailand, CTEP has extended InterMoor’s field decommissioning contract by adding more packages…
10 April 2023
Eni Celebrates Sail Away of FPSO Firenze to Baleine Field Offshore Côte d'Ivoire
Eni, in partnership with PetroCi, celebrated the sail away of the FPSO Firenze to the Baleine field offshore Côte d'Ivoire in Dubai. The event was attended by Mamadou Sangafowa-Coulibaly, Minister of Mines, Petroleum and Energy Côte of d'Ivoire, and other dignitaries. The FPSO Firenze will allow production start-up of the…
10 April 2023
Allseas to install offshore substation on behalf of DEME Offshore for major French offshore wind farm
Allseas will install the offshore substation for the Yeu and Noirmoutier islands’ offshore wind farm development off France’s Pays-de-la-Loire coast. DEME Offshore has contracted Pioneering Spirit to install the substation jacket and topside in the first half of 2024. The “lift and set down” job is very similar to the…
10 April 2023
First Steel Cut for Moray West Offshore Wind Farm J-Tube Frames
The first steel cutting of the J-tube frames for the 882MW Moray West Offshore Wind Farm has taken place at the Port of Nigg by Global Energy Group’s (GEG) North Fabrication division. Following months of complex pre-production engineering, this marks the start of the fabrication phase of two J-tube frames…
10 April 2023
First oil from Hibiscus / Ruche development
BW Energy has announced that first oil from the Hibiscus / Ruche Phase 1 development in the Dussafu licence offshore Gabon has been safely achieved. Production performance from the first well has been in line with expectations and is currently stabilised at approximately 6,000 barrels per day. "We delivered first…
7 April 2023
Jersey Oil and Gas plc Greater Buchan Area Farm-out
Jersey Oil & Gas (AIM: JOG), an independent upstream oil and gas company focused on the UK Continental Shelf region of the North Sea, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to farm-out a 50% interest in the Greater Buchan Area ("GBA") licences to NEO Energy ("NEO"). Highlights §…
7 April 2023
TWP commences site surveys for Ayre and Bowdun offshore wind farms
Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) announces that it has launched seabed surveys for its two ScotWind projects – the 1GW Ayre Offshore Wind Farm (a floating wind project to the east of Orkney) and the 1GW Bowdun Offshore Wind Farm (a fixed-foundation project off the coast of Aberdeenshire). G-tec is leading…
7 April 2023
Financing secured and construction works commence for Eoliennes en Mer des Iles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier Offshore Wind Farm Project in France
Sumitomo Corporation（Head Office：Tokyo, Japan; President and CEO: Masayuki Hyodo）together with Ocean Winds (Head Office: Spain, an offshore wind energy developer which is a JV between ENGIE (Head Office: France, a global energy and services group) and EDP Renewables (Head office: Spain, a global leader in the renewable energy sector), Caisse…
7 April 2023
Interior Department Announces Start of Turbine Construction for Commercial-Scale, Offshore Wind Energy Project in Federal Waters
In a major milestone towards meeting the Biden-Harris administration’s goal to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, the Department of the Interior today announced that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has completed its review of critical design and installation reports for the South Fork…
6 April 2023
Acteon Geo-services awarded floating wind site investigation by BlueFloat Energy and Renantis Partnership
TerraSond and Benthic, Geo-services brands in Acteon’s Data and Robotics division, have been awarded a combined geophysical and geotechnical survey work scope by the BlueFloat Energy and Renantis Partnership for its Bellrock and Broadshore wind farms northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland. BlueFloat Energy and Renantis joined forces to develop floating offshore…
6 April 2023
INPEX Submits Revised Plan of Development for Abadi LNG Project, Masela Block, Indonesia
INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) announced that through its subsidiary INPEX Masela, Ltd., it has submitted a revised Plan of Development (POD) for Abadi LNG Project (hereinafter “Project”) incorporating a carbon capture and storage (CCS) component to Indonesian government authorities (hereinafter “authorities”) on behalf of the joint venture composed of INPEX and…
6 April 2023
The offshore wind farm of the islands of Yeu and Noirmoutier obtains the final investment decision and begins its construction
Ocean Winds, Sumitomo Corporation, Banque des Territoires and Vendée Energie, the shareholders of Eoliennes en Mer des Iles d'Yeu et de Noirmoutier (EMYN) today announce the final investment decision for the Iles d'Yeu project and Noirmoutier, the fifth offshore wind farm which will be commissioned in France, off the Vendée…
6 April 2023
SSE Renewables announces its first offshore development off Ireland’s Atlantic Coast
Leading renewable developer, owner and operator SSE Renewables is seeking an investigative foreshore licence to facilitate survey work for a possible new offshore wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Tarbert, Co. Kerry. SSE Renewables has recently submitted an application for an investigative foreshore licence to Ireland’s…
6 April 2023
ABPmer further supports development of Morgan and Mona wind farm projects
ABPmer has been commissioned by Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG (EnBW) and international energy company bp to provide detailed seabed mobility information for the Round 4 Morgan Offshore Wind Ltd and Mona Offshore Wind Ltd farms in the eastern Irish Sea. In addition to delivering metocean design and operating criteria for the…
6 April 2023
Neptune Energy boosts global portfolio of digital twins
Neptune Energy announced an agreement to create new “digital twins” of two offshore platforms in the Dutch North Sea, expanding its portfolio of digitized assets to 14. The twins enable engineers to carry out traditional offshore work from an onshore location, accelerating work schedules and reducing costs. Leading UK-based 3D…
5 April 2023
UK Energy Market Pivots Toward Renewables Amid Russian Sanctions and Fossil Fuel Concerns: EIC Report
The UK energy market is shifting its focus to renewable energy in response to Russian sanctions and growing concerns over fossil fuels, reveals the latest data from the Energy Industries Council (EIC).Full story here
5 April 2023
James Fisher Subtech signs second charter for multipurpose offshore vessel to meet the UK’s offshore energy needs
James Fisher Subtech (JF Subtech), part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has signed its second charter agreement of 2023. Allowing for the exclusive use and operation of the multipurpose offshore vessel, Olympic Taurus, the agreement with Olympic Subsea increases JF Subtech’s vessel availability and its capacity to support additional…
5 April 2023
SSE Renewables And Equis Form Consortium To Bid For Gippsland Offshore Wind Projects
SSE Renewables, a subsidiary of UK listed SSE plc, and Equis Development Pte Ltd (Equis), Asia Pacific’s leading renewable energy developer, have formed a 50/50 owned consortium to bid for a feasibility license to expedite the development, construction, ongoing operations and ownership of an offshore wind farm project in Australia’s…
5 April 2023
The biggest offshore wind ‘living lab’ in the world to be developed in the Humber
The biggest offshore wind ‘living lab’ in the world will be created off the Grimsby coast through the development of a 5G Testbed that includes Grimsby Port and the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farm. The £2.8m project will accelerate the development of a new generation of digital technologies essential…
4 April 2023
Gazelle Wind Power Teams up with WAM Horizon to Develop Portuguese Pilot Project
Gazelle Wind Power (Gazelle), developer of a modular floating offshore wind platform, has teamed up with renewable energy developer WAM Horizon (WAM) to accelerate the development of a pilot plant using Gazelle’s breakthrough floating wind platform, in Aguçadoura, Portugal. WAM will provide Gazelle with strategic advisory to successfully implement this…
4 April 2023
Saipem: awarded new offshore EPCI contracts and competitive FEED contracts totalling approximately 650 million USD
Saipem has been awarded three new offshore contracts and two competitive FEED contracts totalling approximately 650 million USD. The first contract has been assigned by Azule Energy for the Agogo Full Field Development project, a deepwater greenfield development, approximately 180 kilometres offshore Angola, about 20 kilometres west of the N’Goma…
4 April 2023
Successful Installation of 24 Arcadis Ost 1 Turbines
The installation of 24 turbines for Parkwind’s Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm has successfully been completed and most turbines are already producing green electricity and contributing to the German Energiewende. This marks the end of the first installation campaign of the wind farm using the revolutionary floating installation method…
4 April 2023
KBR Awarded Front End Engineering Design Contract for Equinor Bay du Nord FPSO Project
KBR announced that its Canadian entity, KBR Industrial Canada Co., has received a Letter of Intent (LOI) from Equinor Canada for the front-end engineering design (FEED) of the topside facilities of the new Bay Du Nord floating production, storage, and offloading facility (FPSO) to be located offshore Newfoundland, Canada. The…
4 April 2023
Petrobras on contracting platforms
Petrobras informs that it has started the contracting process for the chartering of two platform vessels for the Sergipe Deepwater Project (SEAP), in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, about 100 km off the coast. The FPSO (floating production, storage, and oil transfer system) type units will be strategic to expand the availability…
3 April 2023
Short-term contract extension for Espoir Ivoirien
BW Offshore Limited has signed a short-term extension for the lease and operation of the FPSO Espoir Ivoirien in order to discuss a potential purchase of the FPSO by the client. The firm period has been extended until 28 April 2023. The FPSO is operating on the Espoir field offshore…
3 April 2023
Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale Results Announced
As required by Congressional direction in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 259, which generated $263,801,783 in high bids for 313 tracts covering 1.6 million acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A total of…
3 April 2023
Short-term contract extension for Abo FPSO
BW Offshore has signed a short-term extension for Abo FPSO with Nigerian Agip Exploration Ltd, a subsidiary of ENI S.p.A., until 14 April 2023.
3 April 2023
BW Energy: Drilling operations completed on first Hibiscus production well
Drilling operations completed on first Hibiscus production well BW Energy has completed the drilling and completion operations on DHIBM-3H, the first production well of the Hibiscus / Ruche Phase 1 development campaign in the Dussafu licence offshore Gabon. Responsibility for the DHIBM-3H well has been handed over to the production…
3 April 2023
Copenhagen Offshore Partners Opens UK-based Global Competence Centre to Focus on ‘Next Frontier’ Floating Wind
Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP), a world leader in the development and construction of offshore wind projects, has opened a new office to host its Global Floating Offshore Wind Competence Centre (GFLOWCC). The Edinburgh centre provides the ideal location for COP to further grow its team and accelerate the large-scale deployment…
31 March 2023
Sembcorp Marine and GE Jointly Secure Landmark Offshore Renewables Project to Build Biggest and Most Advanced HVDC Electrical Transmission System for TenneT
Sembcorp Marine Ltd through its wholly-owned subsidiary Sembcorp Marine Offshore Platforms Pte. Ltd. (“SMOP”), and consortium partner GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions (“GE”) have jointly secured a Framework Cooperation Agreement (“FCA”) from TenneT TSO B.V. (“TenneT”). The FCA covers a period of five years with an option to extend another…
31 March 2023
Transmission capacity in the range of 22 power plants in the North Sea: TenneT awards on- and offshore converter stations and HVDC technology with a total capacity of 22 gigawatts
With 40 gigawatts, Transmission System Operator (TSO) TenneT will account for almost two-thirds of the 65GW offshore wind energy target by 2030 agreed by Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Belgium in the Esbjerg Declaration of May 2022 at the North Sea Energy Summit. TenneT will build 20 gigawatts (GW) each…
31 March 2023
Energy Swan – extension of contract
Golden Energy Offshore Services AS (GEOS) has informed that a contract extension has been secured for Energy Swan. Energy Swan A contract extension has been secured with Repsol Norge AS. The contract is in direct continuation of the current charter contract from 2021. The large PSV Energy Swan was in…
31 March 2023
Cluster sequencing Phase-2: Track-1 project negotiation list, March 2023
Following the selection of HyNet and East Coast Cluster as Track-1 CCUS clusters in November 2021, and the publication of the shortlist of power CCUS, industrial carbon capture (ICC), waste and CCUS-enabled hydrogen projects in August 2022, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has selected 8 projects to…
31 March 2023
NKT awarded supply contract for the Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm in the UK
NKT has been awarded a supply contract for the delivery of the high-voltage DC on- and offshore export cable system to the Hornsea 3 project which is being developed by Ørsted. For NKT, the final order has an estimated contract value of approx. EUR 500m in market prices (approx. EUR…
31 March 2023
Vestas selected as preferred supplier for 495 MW floating offshore wind project in South Korea
Vestas has signed a preferred supplier agreement for a 495 MW floating offshore wind project in South Korea. If the project materialises, Vestas will supply and install 33 units of the V236-15.0 MW turbine for the project.
31 March 2023
Ørsted takes final investment decision and is ready to build Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms
Ørsted has taken the final investment decision (FID) on its 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms in Taiwan with a timeline for completion by the end of 2025. The 920 MW grid capacity of Greater Changhua 2b and 4 was awarded in June 2018 in Taiwan’s…
30 March 2023
Transocean Ltd. Announces Harsh Environment Contract Award and Extension Totaling $113 Million
Transocean Ltd. announced contract fixtures for two of its harsh environment semisubmersibles. Together, the fixtures represent approximately $113 million in firm contract backlog. Transocean Endurance was awarded a multi-well plug and abandonment contract in Australia with an independent operator. The estimated 240-day contract is expected to commence in January 2024…
30 March 2023
Petrofac and Hitachi Energy secure landmark offshore wind framework worth approximately 13 billion euros
Petrofac and Hitachi Energy have been awarded a multi-year Framework Agreement by TenneT as it works to expand offshore wind capacity in the Dutch-German North Sea The Framework Agreement, which represents the largest in Petrofac’s history, covers six projects. Each project comprises the EPCI of an offshore HVDC transmission station,…
30 March 2023
The government is now highlighting the first offshore wind areas
The government is taking the work on offshore wind in Norway a big step further. The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy is now announcing the first competitions for project areas for offshore wind.Full story here.
30 March 2023
North Sea could power UK to net zero, but over 90% of offshore firms are instead cutting investment, OEUK report warns
The North Sea could power the UK for decades, but a mix of windfall taxes and political uncertainty is driving away the billions of pounds of investments needed to maintain oil and gas production now and create low carbon energy in the future, says a new report.Full report here
29 March 2023
Cadeler signs key contract with ScottishPower Renewables for East Anglia THREE
Cadeler A/S has signed a firm contract with ScottishPower Renewables to execute the transportation and installation of 95 wind turbines at the East Anglia THREE windfarm in 2026. Cadeler has signed a contract with ScottishPower Renewables for the transportation and installation of 95 wind turbine generators at the East Anglia…
29 March 2023
Green energy for more than one million UK homes: Siemens Gamesa to supply flagship turbines for world’s second-largest offshore wind power plant
Siemens Gamesa today announces the signing of a firm order with ScottishPower Renewables to supply 95 units of its flagship SG 14-236 DD wind turbine to the East Anglia 3 wind power project in the North Sea, off England’s east coast, with a total capacity of 1.4 GW. Also included…
29 March 2023
Two rig contracts and a collaboration agreement with Transocean
Equinor, on behalf of several licences, has awarded contracts for the use of Transocean Encourage, mainly in the Norwegian Sea, and Transocean Enabler, for the Johan Castberg field. At the same time, the companies have signed a strategic collaboration agreement. The rigs have been on eight-year contracts with Equinor that…
29 March 2023
McDermott Awarded FEED Contract from Shell
McDermott has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from Shell Trinidad and Tobago Limited for the Manatee gas development project as part of a competitive FEED process. Under the contract scope, McDermott will provide comprehensive FEED services for a wellhead platform, export pipeline system, shore approach, midstream pipeline…
29 March 2023
NKT finalizes the high-voltage power cable projects for the electrification of the Utsira High offshore fields in Norway
NKT has completed the power cable systems connecting six offshore platforms located at Utsira High to onshore power supply. The cable systems play a central role in reducing the carbon emissions from the Norwegian continental shelf with 1.2 million tonnes annually. For more than 10 years, NKT has been a…