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24 August 2022
TotalEnergies, INPEX and Woodside Join Forces to Develop a Major Offshore CO2 Sequestration Project
The Bonaparte CCS Assessment joint venture between TotalEnergies (26%), INPEX (53%, Operator) and Woodside (21%) has been awarded a Greenhouse Gas Storage Assessment Permit, off the northwest coast of Australia, to carry out evaluation and appraisal work on block G-7-AP, which is considered a promising area for geological storage of…
23 August 2022
First power generated at Scotland's largest offshore wind farm
SSE Renewables, and its partner TotalEnergies have announced first power generation from the Seagreen offshore wind farm, 27km off the coast of Angus in Scotland. The first Vestas turbine of a total of 114 was commissioned and connected to the grid in the early hours of Monday morning. The 1,075…
23 August 2022
Fugro develops innovative site investigation solution for Arklow Bank Wind Park
Fugro has successfully completed fieldwork on a geotechnical site investigation for SSE Renewables’ Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2. This offshore wind park will support Ireland’s climate action target of producing 7 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030 and is located approximately 6 to 13 km off the coast…
23 August 2022
BW MaBoMo commenced transit to Gabon
BW Energy has announced the sail away of the BW MaBoMo (formerly Hibiscus Alpha) offshore production facility. The production facility is currently onboard a heavy-lift vessel in transit to the Dussafu license offshore Gabon where it will be installed to produce oil from the Hibiscus and Ruche fields. The BW…
23 August 2022
GATE Energy Awarded Salamanca Commissioning
GATE Energy, the Houston-based engineering, commissioning and field services firm is pleased to announce that they have been awarded the commissioning management and execution contract for LLOG’s Salamanca development. The scope of this work includes pre-commissioning and commissioning planning and execution at both the onshore fabrication site and offshore. The…
23 August 2022
Trillion Energy International Announces Drilling Start Date
Trillion Energy International Inc. has announced that the Uranus drilling rig is currently being prepared to move to the SASB natural gas field, Black Sea, for the Company’s multi-well drilling program and is expected to arrive on August 29, 2022. The Company’s multi-well drilling development program initially includes seven natural gas…
23 August 2022
Huisman proposes harsh environment semi-sub to provide greenest fossil fuel and energy security
Facing an energy supply gap due to rapid decline of traditional fossil fuel sources and fast, but not fast enough, growth of renewable energy sources, Huisman has arrived at a solution. The company’s Harsh Environment Semi-Submersible Drilling Rig is aimed at making the extraction of fossil fuels as sustainable as…
23 August 2022
Shearwater GeoServices awarded 4D seismic processing project over the Wheatstone field, Australia.
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (“Shearwater”) is pleased to announce the award of a large time-lapse seismic imaging project over the Wheatstone field, by Chevron Australia (“Chevron”) under an existing master contract. This project award marks Shearwater’s continuing growth in the Asia Pacific region and use of its capability to deliver…
23 August 2022
PETRONAS to Supply Gas to Sarawak Petchem Sdn Bhd and Sarawak Energy Berhad
PETRONAS kicked off the development of a gas delivery facility at Tanjung Kidurong, Bintulu, that will, from next year, supply natural gas to Sarawak Petchem Sdn Bhd (SPSB) and Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB). From left: PETRONAS President and Group CEO Datuk Tengku Muhammad Taufik, PETRONAS Chairman Tan Sri Dato’ Seri…
22 August 2022
Saipem and OSRL reinforce their cooperation
Saipem S.p.A. (Saipem) and Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) have signed an extension of their existing Services Agreement to include the provision of FlatFish, Saipem’s underwater drone for environmental monitoring and inspection of asset integrity. The existing contract between Saipem and OSRL provides for the storage, maintenance, training of personnel…
22 August 2022
Launch of Survey off Ishikari Bay, Hokkaido, in Preparation for Verification Testing of Power Generation Using TLP Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
MODEC, Inc. (“MODEC”, President & CEO: Takeshi Kanamori) announced that MODEC, JERA Co., Ltd., (“JERA”), Toyo Construction Co., Ltd., and Furukawa Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (“the Consortium”), launched a subsea ground survey ("the Survey") in Ishikari Bay, Hokkaido, in preparation for verification testing of power generation using the tension leg…
22 August 2022
DNO Enters Transaction Agreement to Acquire Assets in West Africa
DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, entered into a transaction agreement pursuant to which RAK Petroleum plc will transfer its ownership of Mondoil Enterprises LLC to DNO. The all-share transaction comprises Mondoil Enterprises’ 33.33 percent indirect interest in privately-held Foxtrot International LDC whose principal assets are operated stakes…
22 August 2022
TotalEnergies announces significant offshore gas discovery in Block 6
TotalEnergies and Eni (operator) have made a significant gas discovery at the Cronos-1 well, in Block 6, offshore Cyprus. This discovery follows the Calypso-1 discovery made on the same Block in 2018. Located at approximately 160 km southwest of the Cyprus coast, Cronos-1 encountered several good quality carbonate reservoir intervals…
22 August 2022
DOF Group extension and award of multiple contracts with Petrobras
DOF is pleased to announce that Petrobras has extended the contracts and awarded new long-term charter and service contracts to Norskan Offshore Ltda. and DOF Subsea Brasil Servicos Ltda. for the vessels; Skandi Chieftain, Skandi Olympia and Skandi Commander. All contracts include vessels and ROVs and are for a period…
22 August 2022
Ocean Winds designated preferred bidder for seabed leases for 2.3 GW of floating projects east of Shetland, Scotland
As part of the clearing round for ScotWind leasing, Ocean Winds (OW), an international company dedicated to offshore wind energy and created as a 50-50 joint venture in 2020 by EDP Renewables and ENGIE, was designated preferred bidder for seabed lease options for two adjacent sites reaching 2.3 GW capacity,…
22 August 2022
Tellurian Completes Haynesville Basin Acquisition
Tellurian Inc. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Tellurian Production LLC (TPC), has closed the previously announced acquisition of certain assets in the Haynesville from privately held EnSight IV Energy Partners, LLC and EnSight Haynesville Partners, LLC. The cash consideration at closing was $125.5 million, revised from the announced $125…
22 August 2022
Contract extension "Avalon Sea"
Siem Offshore can confirm an agreement has been made for a contract extension in Canada. The extension refers to the Ice Class AHTS vessel "Avalon Sea", covering a firm duration of 18 months upon completion of the current term. This will ensure continued operations for the vessel well into Q2…
19 August 2022
LLOG Exploration Awards Audubon Contract for Salamanca FPS Project in the GOM
Audubon Engineering Company LP (Audubon), a leading provider of engineering, procurement, construction, and fabrication services, has entered into an agreement with LLOG Exploration Offshore LLC (LLOG) to support its Salamanca floating production system (FPS) project in the US Gulf of Mexico. LLOG is acting as project manager for the Salamanca…
19 August 2022
Posh Expands Service Capabilities With Acqusition Of Offshore Construction Vessel ‘BOA Deep C’; Vessel To Be Renamed ‘POSH Deep C’
Offshore energy services provider, PACC Offshore Services Holdings (“POSH” or the “Company”) has bolstered its service capabilities after signing an agreement to acquire the 119-metre long, DP-3 offshore construction vessel ‘BOA Deep C’ from BOA OCV AS. The vessel will be renamed ‘POSH Deep C’. The addition of this multipurpose…
19 August 2022
Tellurian Completes Haynesville Basin Acquisition
Tellurian Inc. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Tellurian Production LLC (TPC), has closed the previously announced acquisition of certain assets in the Haynesville from privately held EnSight IV Energy Partners, LLC and EnSight Haynesville Partners, LLC. The cash consideration at closing was $125.5 million, revised from the announced $125…
19 August 2022
STR invests £1 million in new centre of excellence
Subsea Technology and Rentals (STR), a leading global provider of specialist survey and inspection rental equipment, products and data enabling services to the offshore energy market is celebrating the launch of its global technology and innovation centre of excellence after investing £ 1 Million into the facility to drive its…
19 August 2022
Ashtead Technology signs rental agreement with RTS and invests in new technologies
Ashtead Technology has signed a rental agreement with Norway-based RTS, an international provider of electronic engineering equipment for the underwater industry. Under the deal, Ashtead Technology will have access to RTS’s owned equipment fleet to better support customers globally. In addition, Ashtead Technology has purchased an initial ten Gen 5…
19 August 2022
Biden-Harris Administration Continues Offshore Wind Momentum, Announces Next Steps for Gulf of Maine
As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030, the Department of the Interior today announced next steps to bring the opportunity of offshore wind energy to the Gulf of Maine. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has made available…
19 August 2022
EXCEED Announces Completion of First Well Operation as Appointed Well Operator
EXCEED is pleased to announce completion of our first well operation as Appointed Well Operator, with the abandonment of the 15/21a-51 well. Appointed by Parkmead and its abandonment partners to steer its first UKCS well decommissioning operation, this builds upon our trusted reputation for outstanding results based on effective and…
19 August 2022
Bouncing back: High-impact well activity set to rebound this year after 2021 slump
Drilling of high-impact oil and gas prospects is set to rebound this year after a disappointing 2021, when success rates plunged towards record lows, Rystad Energy research shows. These critical wells have found hydrocarbons 47% of the time so far this year, up from a measly 28% for 2021. With…
18 August 2022
Pantheon Resources plc Operational Update, Alkaid #2 Well Corporate Update
Pantheon Resources plc ("Pantheon" or the "Company"), the AIM listed oil and gas company with a 100% working interest in all of its oil projects spanning c. 153,000 acres adjacent and near to transportation and pipeline infrastructure on the Alaska North Slope ("ANS"), is pleased to announce the conclusion of…
18 August 2022
Fugro and Ocean Industries Concept Lab unify offshore control systems for safe remote operations
Research teams from Fugro and the Ocean Industries Concept Lab (OICL) at Oslo School of Architecture and Design have been exploring how best to harmonise maritime design by integrating digital innovation in next-generation workplaces for safe remote operations. Simplified, standardised control interfaces will enhance training, remove the potential for error…
18 August 2022
Data from old wells is now available
Data from the analysis project that Earth Science Analytics AS carried out on assignment from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) in 2021 is now available for download. As described in the news item "New technology unlocks new insight from old wells" (July 2021), the NPD has now published data from…
18 August 2022
Technip Energies, Subsea 7 and Samkang M&T to Perform FEED for Gray Whale 3 Floating Offshore Wind Project in South Korea
Technip Energies in consortium with Subsea 7 and Samkang M&T has been selected by Corio Generation and TotalEnergies to perform a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for their Ulsan Gray Whale 3 Offshore Windfarm project, located offshore the East Coast of South Korea. The FEED contract covers engineering for floater, mooring,…
18 August 2022
Well-Safe Guardian to be upgraded with market-leading modular intervention system
Well decommissioning experts Well-Safe Solutions have partnered with Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. to fit the Well-Safe Guardian semi-submersible rig with the Trident Intervention System. Featuring a compact yet powerful design, the Trident is an effective single-system solution which can be configured for hydraulic intervention, riserless light well intervention and open water…
18 August 2022
Magseis Fairfield receives award of OBN contract in Asia
With reference to the press release from 25 July 2022, we are pleased to announce that the conditional award has been converted into an award. The 4D Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) project is scheduled to be conducted using Magseis Fairfield’s MASS technology. Acquisition will start in Q4 and is expected…
18 August 2022
Neptune Energy commences drilling at Rӧmerberg field
Neptune Energy today announced drilling has begun on a new production well at its operated Rӧmerberg oil field in the Rhine Valley, south-western Germany. It is the ninth production well on the Rӧmerberg field and is expected to come onstream in Q4 this year. Average production from the field is…
17 August 2022
EPC contract for Hai Long project offshore substations
The Hai Long Offshore Wind Project will contribute to the realization of the Taiwanese government’s ambition of reaching 5.5 GW installed offshore wind capacity and securing a leading position for Taiwan in offshore wind in East Asia. The Hai Long Offshore Wind Project, consisting of Hai Long 2 and Hai…
17 August 2022
Trendsetter awarded contract by Well-Safe for plug and abandonment campaign
Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. is pleased to announce a contract award by Well-Safe to utilize the Trident Intervention System and technical services for UK North Sea Abandonments. The system will be deployed from the Well-Safe Guardian rig to conduct a multi-well P&A campaign for an estimated 320-day duration. Trendsetter is a…
17 August 2022
Santos Announces Pikka FID
Santos, as operator of the Pikka Unit joint venture, announced a final investment decision (FID) has been taken to proceed with the US$2.6 billion gross (US$1.3 billion Santos-share) Pikka Phase 1 oil project located on the North Slope of Alaska. Pikka Phase 1 is expected to produce 80,000 barrels a…
17 August 2022
Magseis Fairfield has received an award of a large OBN project in Guyana from ExxonMobil
Magseis Fairfield announce that they have signed an agreement with ExxonMobil affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (“EEPGL”), for a large Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) project offshore Guyana. The project is expected to be conducted using our ZXPLR technology and last for minimum 14 months. “We are very pleased…
17 August 2022
Dorado project update
Carnarvon Energy Limited has provided the following update on the Dorado development occurring within Production License WA-64-L, and Pavo pre-development studies in Exploration Permit WA-438-P. Carnarvon Managing Director and CEO, Mr Adrian Cook, said: “We are pleased that the Dorado development FEED process is now substantially complete and that the project,…
17 August 2022
West Erregulla Update
Strike Energy Limited provides an update on the flow testing activities at WE3 in the West Erregulla gas field on behalf of the EP469 JV. Since the last update Strike has mobilised the testing package to the WE3 well site and has completed rig up and swabbing operations. Strike is…
17 August 2022
Contracts for AHTS’s in Norway and Brazil
Solstad Offshore ASA has announced that Equinor has declared an option to extend the contract for AHTS Normand Ferking with 1 more year to November 2023. Equinor has the option to extend the contract with further 1 year thereafter. Normand Ferking has been on contract with Equinor since 2007 and…
17 August 2022
Walyering gas field sanctioned for development
Strike Energy Limited has announced that the Walyering gas field has been sanctioned for development by the EP447 JV where Strike is the operator and owner of a 55% equity interest, with Talon Energy Limited (ASX: TPD) the owner of the remaining 45%. Strike’s Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director…
16 August 2022
Keppel O&M wins US$2.9b newbuild FPSO P-80 contract from Petrobras
Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M)’s wholly owned subsidiary, Keppel Shipyard, has won an international tender from Brazil’s National Oil Company, Petroleo Brasileiro S.A (Petrobras), for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of P-80, a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) for about US$2.9b. Scheduled for completion in 1H…
16 August 2022
McDermott Awarded Pre-FEED Contract for Proposed H2Perth Project from Woodside Energy
McDermott International has been awarded a Pre Front-End Engineering Design (Pre-FEED) contract from Woodside Energy for the proposed H2Perth project located in the Kwinana/Rockingham area in Western Australia. Under the contract scope McDermott will provide pre-FEED services for a proposed export-scale production facility for renewable and lower-carbon hydrogen and ammonia.…
16 August 2022
Iberdrola completes 90% of the manufacturing of the transition parts of Baltic Eagle
The Iberdrola group continues to make progress in the construction of the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm, the second major site of this technology that the company is developing in the Baltic Sea (Germany). The project has reached a new milestone with Windar having completed 90% of the manufacturing work on…
16 August 2022
Beset by corrosion and hampered by sanctions: Gazprom and Iran’s $40 billion deal sours
Iran and Russia face significant challenges in their attempt to jointly develop offshore Iranian gas fields as Western sanctions against the two countries are likely to pose problems in sourcing tubing of sufficiently high grades, according to Rystad Energy’s research. Rystad Energy assesses that it is metallurgical issues that risk…
16 August 2022
ODE’s UK portfolio broadens with Outer Dowsing Owner’s Engineer contract win
International technical service provider Offshore Design Engineering Ltd (ODE) has been selected to deliver Owner’s Engineer support to the pre-FEED stage of Outer Dowsing offshore wind farm in the Southern North Sea. The 1500MW project will see ODE building upon its extensive track record in the UK offshore wind industry…
16 August 2022
Vår Energi increases acreage positions and takes new operatorship in the Balder area through several transactions
Vår Energi has acquired 30% ownership in production licenses (PL) 820S and PL 820 SB (north of the Balder field in the North Sea) from Lime Petroleum, Pandion Energy and Lundin Energy Norway AS (now Aker BP). Vår Energi is proposed as new operator. The transaction is pending government approval.…
16 August 2022
Ultra-deep water well Gorgon-2 confirms gas province in the Colombian Caribbean
Ecopetrol announces that the Gorgon-2 exploratory and delimitation well verified the presence of gas in ultra-deep waters in the southern Colombian Caribbean, with a water column of about 2,400 meters, the largest carried out in Colombia, and a total depth greater than at 4,000 meters. The well, located approximately 70…
16 August 2022
Matrix awarded major SURF buoyancy contract
Matrix Composites & Engineering Ltd announced it has secured a purchase order worth approximately $16 million, with scope to be increased up to around $18 million, to supply a Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines (SURF) product. Matrix will produce the SURF distributed buoyancy modules for Subsea 7 to be used…
15 August 2022
New Contract: Retrofit of Two Offshore Ships
The Brazilian shipowner Oceanica has signed a contract for retrofit of two ships with Green Yard Kleven in Norway. The assignment consists of converting two PSV offshore vessels for operations with ROV and offshore crane. - Securing this contract gave us a nice and happy start after the holidays, says…
15 August 2022
HydrogenOne Capital Growth plc invests £8.4m (EUR 10m) in Netherlands-based hydrogen pipeline company Strohm
HydrogenOne Capital Growth plc, the first LSE-listed investment fund dedicated to clean hydrogen, is pleased to announce that it has signed definitive agreements for an investment of £8.4m (EUR 10m) in Strohm). HydrogenOne is investing alongside Strohm’s existing investors Shell Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures and Evonik Venture Capital, in the…