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9 January 2023
CGG Starts 7700 sq km Foz do Amazonas 3D Seismic Reimaging Project of Existing Public Data
CGG has announced the start of a new Foz do Amazonas 3D seismic reimaging project, aimed at supporting Brazil’s Permanent Offer initiative in the Equatorial Margin. The project, supported by industry funding, is expected to complete by the end of 2023, with fast-track products available by June. The reimaging project…
9 January 2023
First Hibiscus production well spudded
BW Energy has announced the start of drilling of the first production well on the Hibiscus / Ruche Phase 1 development in the Dussafu Block offshore Gabon. Drilling operations commenced on schedule in the first week of January and in line with the target of producing first oil in March…
6 January 2023
Transocean Ltd. Announces Contract Awards and Extensions Totaling $488 Million
Transocean Ltd. announced contract awards or extensions for five of its drilling rigs. Together, the fixtures represent approximately $488 million of firm backlog. Deepwater Invictus, an ultra-deepwater drillship, was awarded a new three-well contract with an estimated 100-day duration in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico with an independent operator. The…
6 January 2023
Owner’s engineer services wanted for EuroAsia interconnector
EuroAsia Interconnector Limited has issued a tender seeking a provider of owner’s engineer services for the Cyprus – Greece (Crete) part of the link.Full tender document here.
6 January 2023
Moray Firth marine environment benefits from safe disposal of UXOs
The consortium behind the Moray West Offshore Wind Farm, part of the growing Ocean Winds portfolio of UK projects, has recently signed a contract with EODEX UK Subsea Ltd, for the safe and environmentally friendly disposal of legacy Unexploded Ordnance (UXOs) in the Moray Firth, ahead of construction works on…
6 January 2023
RTE international has been entrusted with the modelling and simulation requirements and the specifications to de-risk the Multi-Vendor Multi-Terminal HVDC functionalities for the Bornholm Energy Island project.
RTE international is capitalising on its experience in de-risking multi-vendor HVDC projects and enabling the grid integration of offshore wind in order to assist Energinet with the Bornholm Energy Island project, which has the potential to be one of the first Multi-terminal Multi-vendor HVDC systems in Europe. Once again, RTEi…
6 January 2023
H2Carrier AS and Anori A/S to co-operate in developing a large PtX project in Greenland
H2Carrier AS and the Greenland based company Anori A/S have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the purpose of developing the first commercial wind farm in Greenland with subsequent production and export of green ammonia. The wind farm is projected to comprise 1.5GW renewable energy which will supply power…
6 January 2023
CMIC and Offshoretronic Jointly Develop and Commercialize the Monopiles Installation Scheme of Offshore Windfarms
TSC Offshore Corporation (“TSC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of CMIC Ocean En-Tech Holding Co., Ltd. (“CMIC”) and Offshoretronic S.L. (“Offshoretronic”) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to bring together the two important components of Offshoretronic’s technical engineering experiences in offshore wind transportation&installation and comprehensive TSC offshore equipment design and…
6 January 2023
ADNOC Allocates 15 Billion to Low-Carbon Solutions
ADNOC, announced a bold new strategy to progress the world-scale decarbonization of its operations. The announcement follows the guidance by ADNOC’s Board of Directors in November 2022 to accelerate delivery of its low-carbon growth strategy and the approval of its Net Zero by 2050 ambition. This builds on ADNOC’s strong…
6 January 2023
New Contract Win for Deepsea Yantai
Odfjell Drilling Ltd (“Odfjell Drilling”) is pleased to announce that on behalfof CIMC OFFSHORE AS, the Company has agreed a contract with PGNiG Upstream Norway AS for the use of the drilling rig Deepsea Yantai. The contract includes the drilling of one firm well, “Tomcat”, in PL 1055 in the…
5 January 2023
Equinor and German energy major RWE to cooperate on energy security and decarbonization
Equinor and RWE have agreed to work together to develop large-scale value chains for low carbon hydrogen. The partners aim to replace coal fired power plants with hydrogen-ready gas fired power plants in Germany, and to build production of low carbon and renewable hydrogen in Norway that will be exported…
5 January 2023
Drilling activity update - Isabella and K2
Drilling Activity Update – Isabella and K2 Isabella Ithaca Energy and its partners announced the results of recent appraisal drilling at the Isabella discovery (P1820) in Block 30/12d-12, located in the Central North Sea of the UK Continental Shelf. Upon entering the reservoir, Total Energies informed the partners (Ithaca Energy…
5 January 2023
Talos Energy Achieves Successful Results from Lime Rock and Venice Prospects
Talos Energy Inc. announced that the Company's Lime Rock and Venice prospects both successfully discovered commercial quantities of oil and natural gas during sequential drilling operations in the fourth quarter of 2022. Talos holds a 60% working interest in the two deepwater discoveries, both of which are located near the…
5 January 2023
DEME secures inter-array cable transportation and installation contract for Empire Wind 1 and 2 in the US
Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and bp,has awarded a contract to DEME Offshore US for the transportation and installation of inter-array cables for the Empire Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind farms. Representing a substantial contract (1), DEME Offshore US will be responsible for the transport and…
5 January 2023
Detailed evaluation to begin on Pathways Alliance proposed carbon storage hub
The Pathways Alliance, representing Canada’s largest oil sands producers, has entered into a Carbon Sequestration Evaluation Agreement with the Government of Alberta. The agreement enables the Alliance to immediately start a detailed evaluation of its proposed geological storage hub which would be one of the world’s largest carbon capture and…
5 January 2023
TGS Announces New 2D Seismic Survey Offshore Bangladesh
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, today announced a new regional multi-client 2D seismic program offshore Bangladesh in partnership with SLB and Petrobangla. The program's initial phase will comprise approximately 11,000 line kilometers of newly acquired high-resolution broadband 2D seismic data on a regional scale to enhance…
5 January 2023
Technip Energies Awarded a Large Project Management Consultancy Contract by Kuwait Oil Company
Technip Energies has been awarded a large(1) contract for Project Management Consultancy (PMC) by Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). The five-year framework agreement contract covers front-end engineering design (FEED), project management, and associated services for KOC’s major projects. This contract represents a renewal of the first five-year framework agreement that was…
5 January 2023
Shearwater GeoServices announces Petrobras 4D contracts at Jubarte and Tartaruga Verde fields in Campos Basin, Brazil
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS has announced the award of two contracts for 4D seismic surveys with Petrobras for the Jubarte and Tartaruga Verde fields in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. Combined, the two surveys together add eight months to the company’s order book. The first contract is for a second…
4 January 2023
Baker Hughes to Supply Key Technology for One of the World’s Largest Offshore Carbon Capture & Sequestration Facilities
Baker Hughes announced it has been awarded a contract to be booked in the fourth quarter of 2022 by Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE) to supply carbon dioxide (CO2) compression equipment to PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd.’s Kasawari offshore carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project in Sarawak, Malaysia. The project…
4 January 2023
Equinor marks 5 years of operations at world’s first floating wind farm
Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating offshore wind farm, has passed five years in operation since its commissioning in 2017. Hywind Scotland, located off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland, is the world’s first floating offshore wind farm and the world’s best-performing offshore wind farm, achieving a capacity factor of 54%…
4 January 2023
EGS Completes Major Offshore Wind Farm Geophysical Survey Work in the United States
EGS has completed a major offshore geophysical and hydrographic survey for Ørsted’s Skipjack Wind offshore wind project off the coast of Maryland’s Delmarva Peninsula. Ørsted is the U.S. leader in offshore wind, with approximately 5 gigawatts in development. The survey lasted over a year and involved deploying a wide range…
4 January 2023
The Njord field upgraded and ready for another 20 years
Production from the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea resumed at 16.30 on 27 December, following an upgrading project in which both the platform and the floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO) were brought ashore. The field is now back on stream, ensuring secure and stable energy supplies to Europe.…
4 January 2023
CNOOC Limited Announces Kenli 6-1 Oilfield 5-1, 5-2, 6-1 Block Development Project Commences Production
CNOOC Limited announces that Kenli 6-1 Oilfield 5-1, 5-2, 6-1 Block Development Project has commenced production. The project is located in the south of Bohai Sea, with an average water depth of around 19 meters. The main production facilities include 1 central platform and 6 unmanned wellhead platforms. 107 development…
4 January 2023
TGS and CGG Announce Foz do Amazonas Phase II 3D Multi-client Survey Offshore Brazil
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, in partnership with CGG, a global technology and HPC leader, announced the second phase of the Foz do Amazonas 3D multi-client survey, located in the offshore Brazil equatorial margin. This survey, covering 11,425 square kilometers, will broaden the region's 3D coverage…
4 January 2023
Eolus has received research permits for two offshore wind projects in Finland
Eolus has taken important steps towards offshore wind production in Finland, receiving research permits for two offshore wind farms in the Bothnian Sea. The Finnish Government gave consent regarding research permits to Eolus for the two offshore wind projects Wellamo and Tuulia in the Finnish Bothnian Sea. The Environmental Impact…
4 January 2023
PGS Secures Large MultiClient Campaign in Norwegian Sea
PGS has secured industry pre-funding for a large MultiClient survey in the Norwegian Sea. The survey will be acquired by a Ramform Titan-class vessel over two seasons with mobilization for the first season in Q2 2023. The survey will be completed during summer 2024. “We acquired the first phase of…
4 January 2023
Neptune Energy, Ørsted and Goal7 explore powering integrated energy hubs with offshore wind
Neptune Energy announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ørsted and Goal7 to explore powering new integrated energy hubs in the UK North Sea with offshore wind-generated electricity. Integrated energy hubs have the potential to combine multiple energy systems, including existing oil and gas production assets, carbon storage…
23 December 2022
Vår Energi Celebrates Christmas with the largest discovery of the year
Vår Energi ASA confirms discovery of gas in the Vår Energi operated 7122/9-1 T2 (Lupa) well in the Goliat area, Barents Sea. Preliminary estimates of the size of the discovery are between 57-132 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent (9-21 billion Sm3 recoverable gas resources). Building on the successful 2021…
23 December 2022
Aker Solutions Wins Dvalin North Subsea Contract from Wintershall Dea
Aker Solutions has been awarded a sizeble¹ contract from Wintershall Dea to provide the subsea production system for the Dvalin North field development, offshore Norway. The development concept is a subsea tie-back to the Heidrun platform, utilizing existing infrastructure in the region, ensuring future production volumes with low carbon intensity.…
23 December 2022
Eni launches a second FLNG project to increase LNG production and export from the Republic of Congo
Eni has signed a contract with Wison Heavy Industry for the construction and installation of a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) unit with a capacity of 2.4 MTPA (million tons per annum). The FLNG will be deployed offshore the Republic of Congo. The 380 metres long and 60 metres wide…
23 December 2022
Seadrill Limited Announces Agreement to Acquire Aquadrill LLC in All-Stock Transaction
Seadrill Limited (NYSE & OSE: SDRL) (“Seadrill”) and Aquadrill LLC (“Aquadrill”; and together with Seadrill, the “Company”) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Seadrill will acquire Aquadrill in an all-stock transaction. Upon completion of the transaction Seadrill shareholders and Aquadrill unitholders will own…
23 December 2022
AVANGRID Statement on Federal Environmental Review of New England Wind Offshore Project
AVANGRID, a leading sustainable energy company and part of the Iberdrola Group, today released the following statement regarding the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on AVANGRID’s New England Wind Offshore project, consisting of the 1232 Megawatt (MW) Commonwealth Wind and 804 MW Park City…
23 December 2022
Commencement of Commercial Operation of the Offshore Wind Farm Project at Akita Port and Noshiro Port in Akita Prefecture
Marubeni Corporation (hereinafter, “Marubeni”) has been implementing the first large-scale offshore wind power project in Japan at Akita Port and Noshiro Port in Akita Prefecture (hereinafter, “Offshore Wind Farms”), which is comprised of a bottom fixed offshore wind farm, an onshore substation, and transmission lines (hereinafter, “Offshore Wind Farm Project”).…
23 December 2022
RWE enters partnership with Harbour energy to explore CCS opportunities at UK power stations
RWE, one of the UK’s leading electricity generators, and operators of one of the most efficient fleet of gas plants in the UK, has entered into a development partnership with Harbour Energy the UK’s largest independent oil and gas producer. The partnership will enable RWE to investigate options to capture,…
22 December 2022
Western Gas signs agreements with Pluto LNG and North West Shelf for Equus Gas processing
Woodside Burrup Pty Ltd and the North West Shelf Project participants have entered into separate nonbinding agreements with Western Gas outlining the key terms and process for undertaking joint technical studies and negotiating and finalising fully termed agreements for the processing of 2-3 Mtpa of Equus gas from 2027 utilising…
22 December 2022
Vattenfall gets to build Finland's first large offshore wind farm
Vattenfall has entered a joint venture with Metsähallitus to build and operate Finland’s first major offshore wind farm. The project, located at Korsnäs off the Finnish west coast, will have a capacity of 1.3 GW and a potential annual production of 5 TWh. Vattenfall was selected in the first of…
22 December 2022
Berling PDO Submitted to the Authorities
OMV (Norge) AS has on behalf of the PL644 partnership submitted the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for the Berling gas and condensate discovery to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The recommended development concept for the Berling field is a 4-slot subsea production template tied back via…
22 December 2022
Extra 700,000 more UK homes to get clean, green power from the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone
Vattenfall has announced that the capacity for the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone will be increased. Crucially, this will take place with no extra impact for local residents, with its construction taking place within existing plans. The capacity of the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone will be increased to around 4.2GW, meaning…
22 December 2022
TGS and CGG Announce Dense OBN Survey in the Sleipner Area of the Norwegian Continental Shelf
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, and CGG, a global technology and HPC leader, have been jointly awarded the acquisition and imaging of a dense ocean bottom node (OBN) multi-client seismic survey in the Sleipner Area of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The Sleipner OBN survey, located…
22 December 2022
PGS Awarded Petrobras 4D Contract
PGS is awarded a significant 4D production contract by Petrobras over the Barracuda-Caratinga field in the Campos basin offshore Brazil. Mobilization is scheduled to start in Q2 2023 and acquisition is expected to complete early 2024. The Ramform Victory will most likely be rigged to acquire the Barracuda-Caratinga 4D survey,…
22 December 2022
Petrobras on the start of P-71 production
Petrobras informs that it put into operation, this Wednesday (Dec,21), the P-71 platform vessel, installed in the Itapu field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt area, 200 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The start of production has been anticipated, as it was originally scheduled for 2023. From Petrobras'…
22 December 2022
IOG plc Operational update: Blythe H2 well plan and Southwark progress
IOG plc ("IOG", or "the Company"), (AIM: IOG.L), the Net Zero UK gas and infrastructure operator focused on high return projects, provides an update on current production, plans for a second Blythe production well ("H2") and progress at Southwark. Highlights: - Saturn Banks 2H22 average production expected to be c.22…
21 December 2022
RWE picks Blyth for build-out of one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms
RWE has signed up Port of Blyth as Offshore Construction Base for its 1.4 gigawatts (GW) Sofia Offshore Wind Farm, one of the world’s largest offshore wind projects. Commissioned in December 2000, Blyth was home to the UK’s first offshore wind turbine pilot project, operated at the time by E.ON…
21 December 2022
Final Data Available for Largest Dual-azimuth Seismic Survey in Campos Basin
Assess the emerging play potential in open acreage of the Campos Basin with new full integrity KPSDM, RTM, and 2D & 3D marine gravity and magnetics data. The Campos Deepwater GeoStreamer X survey is part of the PGS Campos Deepwater program which covers 10 000 sq. km of open acreage…
21 December 2022
Eni makes another gas discovery offshore Cyprus
Eni announces a new gas discovery offshore Cyprus with the well Zeus-1, drilled in Block 6, 162 km off the coastline in 2300 meters of water depth. The Block is operated by Eni Cyprus, holding 50% interest, with TotalEnergies as partner. Zeus-1 is the third consecutive discovery in Block 6.…
21 December 2022
The Crown Estate accelerates plans for floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea with multi-million pound programme of marine surveys
The Crown Estate has announced its first major investment in surveys to support the proposal to unlock valuable new clean energy capacity through floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea. The awarding of the first contracts marks an important step in what is anticipated to be a multi-million pound series…
21 December 2022
Ramboll to develop concept for offshore green hydrogen production
As part of one of Europe’s largest green hydrogen projects, Ramboll will investigate the feasibility of producing hydrogen offshore at multi-gigawatt scale with NortH2 in the Dutch part of the North Sea. The NortH2 consortium, consisting of Eneco, RWE, Equinor and Shell is, in partnership with Gasunie, investigating how all…
21 December 2022
Norway and France will strengthen cooperation on CCS
Norway and France has signed a Letter of Intent to promote mutually beneficial cooperation on the development and deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). This confirms the governments’ intentions to cooperate on CCS and recognize the importance of cross-border cooperation.More
20 December 2022
Allseas wins installation contract for Norwegian production facility
Allseas has been selected to provide offshore transport and installation (T&I) services for a new processing platform topsides facility with well bay area and living quarters (NOA PdQ) in the NOAKA area development operated by Aker BP in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract award follows the successful completion of…
20 December 2022
Serica Energy announces proposed acquisition of Tailwind Energy Investments
Serica Energy plc is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of Tailwind Energy Investments Ltd ("Tailwind") from Tailwind Energy Holdings LLP (the "Seller") (the "Transaction"). The consideration for the acquisition comprises: • The issue of up to1 111,048,124 new…