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29 September 2022
Vattenfall awarded major wind power project off the coast of Germany
Vattenfall has obtained the right to develop the N-7.2 offshore wind power project off the German North Sea coast after having exercised its right of entry. The project is expected to generate fossil-free electricity corresponding to the consumption of more than one million German households. As part of the tender…
29 September 2022
Ulstein develops 8,000ft foundation installation vessel
To provide for tomorrow’s needs in offshore wind, Ulstein has expanded its portfolio with the ULSTEIN HX122 design. The design features an ULSTEIN X-BOW® and an ultra-high-capacity crane, enabling operators and contractors to efficiently transport and install monopiles or jacket foundations up to 5,000 tons. New foundation installation tonnage is…
29 September 2022
Manor Renewable Energy acquires OPUS Marine
Manor Renewable Energy (MRE), a UK-based company with a focus on integrated project solutions for the offshore wind sector, is pleased to announce the acquisition of OPUS Marine (OPUS), a German CTV owner and operator. OPUS Marine was established in 2006 and has become a leading crew transfer vessel (CTV)…
28 September 2022
bp awards Wood multi-region contract to support efficient and safe energy production
Wood has been awarded a multi-region engineering services contract by bp to support efficient and safe energy production through the provision of asset repairs, modifications and enhancements. The five-year reimbursable contract, valued at around $350m, will be delivered via agile working methods to optimise cost and delivery performance, enabling operational…
28 September 2022
Akastor ASA: DDW Offshore AS signs contract for “Skandi Atlantic”
Akastor ASA’s subsidiary DDW Offshore AS (“DDW Offshore”) has been awarded a firm 1 year contract by Petrofac for the AHTS vessel Skandi Atlantic. The AHTS will support the disconnection of the FPSO “Northern Endeavour” together with towing and well isolations work in the Laminaria Corallina oil fields in the…
28 September 2022
Corinth Pipeworks is awarded Fenix offshore gas field in Argentina by TotalEnergies
Corinth Pipeworks has been selected by TotalEnergies and his Partners (WintershallDea and Pan American Sur) to manufacture and supply approximately 40km of 24” longitudinally submerged arc welded steel pipes for the Fenix phase 1 gas export pipeline. Fenix gas field is part of the Cuenca Marina Austral (CMA-1) license, operated…
28 September 2022
BOURBON continues its development in offshore wind energy and creates its Bourbon Wind division
After more than 10 years of installation of the main floating wind farm prototypes in Europe, BOURBON announces the setup of a new division dedicated to offshore wind. This division will support the group's ambition to become a major player in the entire value chain: pre-studies, transport and installation services,…
28 September 2022
PGS Secures MultiClient Project in West Africa
PGS has secured solid industry pre-funding for a MultiClient survey in West Africa. The Ramform Atlas is scheduled to mobilize for the survey late October and acquisition is expected to complete early January. "This is the first MultiClient project in West Africa since early 2021 as we experience increasing demand…
28 September 2022
Gulf Marine Services PLC : Contract Award
GMS, a leading provider of advanced self‐propelled, self‐elevating support vessels serving the offshore oil, gas and renewables industries, is pleased to announce the award of a new contract, with a duration of 22 months, for an E Class vessel with an EPC Client in MENA. The contract is due to…
28 September 2022
Technical feasibility study awards for North Sea green hydrogen project
The H2opZee consortium comprising RWE and Neptune Energy announced today a series of technical feasibility study contract awards to wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa, and Dutch engineering contractors H2SEA and Enersea to support concept engineering work as part of the project’s feasibility phase. The consortium aims to develop the H2opZee…
28 September 2022
Reabold Resources plc : Conditional Acquisition of Simwell Resources Limited ("Transaction")
Reabold, the AIM quoted investing company with a portfolio of upstream oil and gas projects, is pleased to announce the execution of a Sale and Purchase Agreement ("SPA") for the conditional acquisition of Simwell Resources Limited ("Simwell"). Key Highlights: · Reabold is to acquire Simwell at a low acquisition cost…
27 September 2022
Equinor – consent for exploration drilling in block 6605/1 in the Norwegian Sea
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Equinor consent for exploration drilling in block 6605/1 in the Norwegian Sea.
27 September 2022
Final investment decision for North Sea gasfield development N05-A
ONE-Dyas, together with partners EBN and Hansa Hydrocarbons, have made a final investment decision for the development of the N05-A gas field in the North Sea. The decision involves an investment of more than EUR 500 million. This makes it the largest investment in a natural gas development in the…
27 September 2022
INEOS and its partners agree Final Investment Decision for the development of the Solsort field
INEOS and its partners in the Solsort Unit, Danoil and Nordsøfonden, have agreed on Final Investment Decision regarding the development of the Solsort West field in the Danish part of the North Sea after having received the approval of the development from the Danish Energy Agency. The Solsort development consist…
27 September 2022
VAALCO Energy Announces Approval of Plan of Development for Discovery on Block P in Equatorial Guinea
VAALCO Energy, Inc. announced that the Government of Equatorial Guinea has approved the Venus - Block P Plan of Development (“POD”). VAALCO has an 80% participation interest in the project and is the operator. Upon the execution of final documents, VAALCO will proceed directly to project execution which targets first…
27 September 2022
Worley and Grand Isle Shipyard awarded contract for bp services in Gulf of Mexico
GW Integrated Solutions LLC (GWIS), a consortium of Worley and Grand Isle Shipyard (GIS), has been awarded a contract to provide engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction services to bp-operated offshore assets in the Gulf of Mexico, USA. The term of the contract is five years and is expected to include…
27 September 2022
Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Secures Critical Foundations Infrastructure From Global Energy Group
Moray West Offshore Wind Farm has signed a contract for complex elements of foundation structure with Global Energy Group (GEG). The multi million pound contract is for the supply of the two J-tube frames that will be attached to the two foundations holding the offshore substation platforms (OSPs). The frames…
27 September 2022
Sceirde Rocks: the first major offshore windfarm on Ireland’s west coast
The Sceirde Rocks Windfarm is the first commercial-scale offshore wind project on Ireland’s west coast targeting completion by 2030. The 450 MW windfarm is being developed by Irish and Gaeltacht-based Fuinneamh Sceirde Teoranta (FST), a joint venture owned by global offshore wind developer Corio Generation and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.The…
26 September 2022
Archer secures long term Platform Drilling contract in the UK with estimated value of $50 million over the firm contract period
Archer has secured a five year contract for the provision of platform drilling operations and maintenance services on seven installations with an operator in the UK . The new contract will commence November 1st, 2022, in direct continuation of the current contract and contains options for an additional four years.…
26 September 2022
Longboat Energy plc Velocette Rig Contract
Longboat Energy, the emerging full-cycle North Sea E&P company, is pleased to announce that a rig contract has been signed for the drilling of the Velocette exploration well (Company 20%). Velocette (PL 1016) will be drilled using the semi-submersible Transocean Norge and is expected to be drilled in Q3 2023.…
26 September 2022
Maersk Drilling secures work for Maersk Viking offshore Malaysia into 2024
Maersk Drilling has secured a contract extension with Sarawak Shell Berhad and Sabah Shell Petroleum Co Ltd (SSB/SSPC) for the 7th generation drillship Maersk Viking. SSB/SSPC have executed the remaining three one-well options of the current drillship contract and awarded an additional eight-well contract to Maersk Drilling. Maersk Drilling secures…
26 September 2022
World’s first offshore renewable hydrogen production pilot site is inaugurated by Lhyfe
Around the world, the race for hydrogen is on and the development of offshore wind farms is booming. Lhyfe – which inaugurated the world’s first site for the production of hydrogen from onshore wind turbines in September 2021 and which is currently preparing to deploy its solutions Europe-wide – is…
26 September 2022
Equinor and Poland’s PGNiG agree long term gas sales contract
Equinor announced a long-term gas sales agreement with Poland’s PGNiG. The agreement is for 10 years with a volume of around 2.4 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas per year to be exported through the new Baltic Pipe. The Baltic Pipe Project connects the Norwegian gas export system to Poland…
26 September 2022
ADNOC and TAQA Close Landmark Clean Energy and Decarbonization Transaction
First-of-its-kind sub-sea transmission network in the MENA region, the project rapidly progressed from concept to development phase with construction starting in early 2022 Strategic sustainable power project significantly decarbonizes ADNOC’s offshore production operations, strengthening ADNOC and TAQA’s leading positions in supporting the UAE’s ‘Net Zero by 2050 Strategic Initiative’ Combined…
26 September 2022
Floatel International Ltd: Contract Extensions
The Company is pleased to announce that the contracts have been extended for the existing Equinor Energy AS charters in the North Sea. Floatel Endurance will continue to provide services at the Johan Sverdrup field until December 31, 2022. Two additional monthly options have been added under the same amendment,…
26 September 2022
Prosafe SE: Safe Concordia awarded US Gulf project
Prosafe has been issued a letter of award, subject to final contract, to provide accommodation and construction support using the Safe Concordia in the US Gulf of Mexico.The duration of the contract commencing Q2/Q3 2023 is approximately one year. The contract linked to the award has an approximate value of…
23 September 2022
Transocean Ltd. Announces Contract For Harsh Environment Semi-Submersible Transocean Norge
Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) announced today that the harsh environment semi-submersible, Transocean Norge, received a contract award from Wintershall Dea Norge and OMV Norge granting the exclusive right to drill all of the wells for their respective drilling campaigns starting in 2023 through 2027, subject to rig availability and other…
23 September 2022
UK government takes next steps to boost domestic energy production
To bolster the UK’s energy security, the UK government has lifted the moratorium on shale gas production in England, and confirmed its support for a new oil and gas licensing round, expected to be launched by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) in early October. Full story here.
23 September 2022
TechnipFMC Awarded a Significant Subsea Contract for Shell’s North Sea Development
TechnipFMC (NYSE: FTI) has been awarded a significant(1) engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by Shell plc ( for the Jackdaw development, located in the United Kingdom North Sea. The contract covers pipelay for a 30 kilometer tieback from the new Jackdaw platform to Shell’s Shearwater platform, as well…
23 September 2022
Carbon storage licensing round attracts 26 bids
The future of carbon storage moved a step closer today with 26 bids coming in for the UK’s first-ever carbon storage licensing round. A total of 19 companies, eager to play a part in the energy transition, expressed interest in the 13 areas on offer, which are off the coasts…
23 September 2022
Osbit delivers Swordfish trencher to Jan De Nul
Osbit, the UK-based specialist offshore equipment supplier, has successfully delivered a state-of-the-art subsea trenching vehicle to Luxembourg vessel operator Jan De Nul.The high-powered vehicle, named Swordfish, is a purpose-built cable burial tool for the efficient protection of the subsea cables that will be used on current and future wind farm…
23 September 2022
Nexans to supply Ørsted – Eversource offshore wind project serving Connecticut and Rhode Island states
Nexans, a global organization and key driver for the world’s transition to a more connected and sustainable energy future, today announced the finalization of a second U.S.-based contract with Ørsted and Eversource to supply the export cable system for the Revolution Wind Farm. Located more than 15 miles south of…
23 September 2022
Maersk Drilling secures four-well contract offshore Denmark
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract with INEOS E&P A/S for the provisioning of the harsh-environment jack-up rig Maersk Resolve to drill two development wells at the Solsort field as well as performing well intervention work scopes on two wells within the Siri cluster. Both areas are located in…
23 September 2022
Sea Lion Update
Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the oil and gas exploration and production company with key interests in the North Falkland Basin, is pleased to announce that all regulatory consents required for the transaction between the Company, Harbour Energy plc (“Harbour”) and Navitas Petroleum LP (“Navitas”) as announced on 19 April…
22 September 2022
Drilling permit for 7122/8-1 S and 7122/9-1
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Vår Energi AS drilling permit for 7122/8-1 S and 7122/9-1, cf. Section 13 of the Resource Management Regulations.
22 September 2022
Major offshore decommissioning project for AF Gruppen
AF Gruppen is awarded a contract from TotalEnergies EP Nederland B.V. for the removal and recycling of platforms in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The contract includes engineering, preparatory works, removal, transportation, recycling and disposal (EPRD) of 10 platforms with a combined weight of 17,000 tonnes. The project…
22 September 2022
Allseas wins contact for major gas pipeline in Mexico
Allseas has been awarded a substantial construction contract by TC Energy for a major offshore pipeline delivering natural gas to southeast Mexico. Our state-of-the-art pipelay vessels will install the 36-inch pipeline, which will run approximately 700-kilometres south along the coast from Tuxpan connecting the ports of Coatzacoalcos and Dos Bocas.…
22 September 2022
Eni UK applies for carbon storage license for the Hewett depleted field in the UK Southern North Sea
Eni UK announces that it has submitted through the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) system a Carbon Storage License Application for the Hewett depleted gas field on the Southern North Sea for the development of a CCS project aimed at decarbonising the Bacton and Thames Estuary area. The Hewett depleted…
22 September 2022
Vos prodect supplies another major Dutch wind farm by the end of 2022
Vos Prodect is pleased to announce a contract awarded by TKF to supply the low Hang-off systems for the Hollandse Kunst Noord (HKN) offshore wind farm. The delivery of the systems is planned for the end of Q4 2022. The 125 km2 wind park is located 18.5 km out off…
22 September 2022
i3 Energy plc : Serenity Appraisal Well Spud
i3 Energy plc, an independent oil and gas company with assets and operations in the UK and Canada, is pleased to announce the spud of the Serenity appraisal well on UK Licence P.2358, Block 13/23c. i3 owns a 75% working interest in the field. The drilling programme is expected to…
22 September 2022
Maersk Drilling awarded one-well extension for drillship with TotalEnergies
TotalEnergies E&P Suriname, Suriname Branch has exercised an option to add the drilling of one additional well in Block 58 offshore Suriname to the work scope of the drillship Maersk Valiant. The contract extension is expected to commence in January 2023, in direct continuation of the rig’s current work scope,…
22 September 2022
BOA introduce our largest barge with extreme submerging capacities
BOA has presented the newbuilt Semi-Submersible Boa Barge 38, available in Shanghai- Singapore range from December 2022. With the capacities of horizontal submerging to 21.5 meters of water above deck, uniform deck strength of 35mt/m2 and a free deck area of 5.150 m2, Boa Barge 38 can accommodate the load…
21 September 2022
Dry well near the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea – 6608/1-1 S
PGNiG Upstream Norway AS, operator of production licence 1017, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 6608/1-1 S. The well was drilled about 50 kilometres east of the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea and 220 kilometres northwest of Sandnessjøen. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum…
21 September 2022
TenneT announces large scale HVDC cable tender for offshore grid connections in the North Sea
"With our second large-scale EU tender this summer, we as a cross-border transmission system operator are once again giving the offshore market an important boost in terms of investment security, employment and the plannable development of resources and supply chains," said TenneT COO Tim Meyerjürgens. "At the same time, the…
21 September 2022
Mag Mell FSRU project concept for Ireland validated
Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc (LSE: PRD), the Jersey based Oil and Gas Company with near-term gas operations focussed on Morocco, notes the announcement yesterday by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications of the "Review of the security of Ireland's electricity and natural gas systems" (the "Review").…
21 September 2022
Corinth Pipeworks is awarded contract for the Alexandroupolis Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) pipeline
Corinth Pipeworks has been awarded a contract by Saipem S.p.A for the development of an offshore and onshore natural gas pipeline by Gastrade. The Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) will be connected to the National Natural Gas Transmission System of Greece, through a 28 km long pipeline, through which…
21 September 2022
Research to monitor marine environment in the North Sea begins
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has begun conducting research with robot submarine ‘Boaty McBoatface’ on end-of-life oil fields off the coast of the Shetland Islands to help monitor and protect the marine environment in the North Sea and to support industry transition towards its net-zero targets. The underwater robot will…
21 September 2022
Vissim ramps up oil spill monitoring approach for Aker BP
Norwegian technology supplier Vissim to develop an expanded digital platform for future oil spill monitoring and detection system on the Norwegian continental shelf. Under the contract, Vissim will develop a software solution that integrates input from a number of different oil spill detection sources, including radars, satellites, sensors on subsea…
21 September 2022
McDermott Selected for Begonia Project by TotalEnergies EP Angola Block 17/06
McDermott International has been awarded a significant contract by TotalEnergies EP Angola Block 17/06 for engineering, procurement, supply, construction, installation, pre-commissioning and assistance to commissioning and start-up (EPSCI) on its Begonia Project. The Begonia field is located offshore Angola in water depth between 400 to 750 meters. The Begonia Project…
21 September 2022
Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn announce offshore wind partnership to support oil and gas decarbonisation in Scotland
Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, two European developers and owners of offshore wind projects, announced their partnership. Together the partners will generate renewable energy from offshore wind farms to enable the electrification and decarbonisation of offshore oil and gas installations in the North Sea. Any excess power will be made available…