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14 April 2022
Tyra II: Completion of Successful Offshore Installation Campaign
Norwegian Energy Company ASA (“Noreco” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the successful offshore lift and installation of the three Tyra West wellhead and riser platforms (“TW-WHRP”), the utility- and living quarters (“accommodation unit”) and two bridges. Over a period of ten days, the world’s largest crane vessel, Sleipnir,…
14 April 2022
SNC-Lavalin awarded advisory and engineering services contract for ADNOC offshore operations power project
SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC), a fully integrated professional services and project management company with offices around the world, has been awarded a four-year advisory and engineering services contract by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to support its offshore operations power project. A first-of-its-kind high-voltage, direct current (HVDC-VSC) subsea transmission system in…
14 April 2022
Hurricane Energy plc Competent Person's Report on the Lancaster Field & 2022 Production Guidanc
Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company, announces that the updated Competent Person's Report ("CPR") on the Company's Lancaster Field by ERC Equipoise Ltd ("ERCE") has been published on the Company's website at. ERCE's work has been prepared in accordance with the June 2018 Petroleum Resources Management…
14 April 2022
IOG plc Operational Update
IOG plc, the Net Zero UK gas and infrastructure operator focused on high return projects, provides a further Phase 1 update. Earlier this month, the Company advised that it was pursuing a rapid solution to a mechanical fault on the Blythe topsides, in collaboration with its offshore Duty Holder ODE…
14 April 2022
HIGHVOLT commissioned to supply testing systems for XLCC's submarine cables
HIGHVOLT commissioned to supply testing systems for XLCC's submarine cables After a detailed and extensive selection process, HIGHVOLT was selected by the British company XLCC as the main supplier of test systems for the prequalification, type and routine tests of submarine cables A newcomer to the industry, XLCC will support…
14 April 2022
£49million construction contract signed for new Deep Water Terminal that will boost the economy of the Outer Hebrides
Stornoway Port Authority has awarded the £49million contract for construction of its new multi-purpose Deep Water Terminal to building and civil engineering firm McLaughlin and Harvey. Work on the transformational project at the Outer Hebrides’ main port is expected to start in the coming weeks and be completed before the…
13 April 2022
Wood awarded contract for first oil development offshore Senegal
Wood has been awarded a contract by Woodside Energy for the Sangomar FPSO development, located 100km south of Dakar, Senegal. The floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility is specifically designed for the processing of hydrocarbons and the storage of oil before being transported to markets around the world. On…
13 April 2022
Searcher announces 2D seismic data reprocessing project in Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada
Searcher Seismic, a leading service provider of global multi-client geoscience data, acquisition and management services, today announced a new multi-client 2D seismic data reprocessing project in Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada. The 2D seismic dataset comprises of over 13,000 kilometers of 2D data throughout the Scotian Shelf, including the prolific Sable…
13 April 2022
Early consultation begins on Gwynt Glas floating wind Celtic Sea project
Early consultation is underway with the commercial fisheries sector as the team at Gwynt Glas reveal details of the location of their 1,500 square km site search area in the Celtic Sea. Gwynt Glas, a joint venture announced in January between EDF Renewables UK and Pembrokeshire based DP Energy, will…
13 April 2022
Murphy Oil Corporation Achieves First Oil at King’s Quay Floating Production System in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
Murphy Oil Corporation announced that it has achieved first oil from the Khaleesi, Mormont and Samurai eld development project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, as production has begun owing through the Murphy-operated King’s Quay floating production system (King’s Quay FPS). The project is comprised of the Khaleesi / Mormont…
13 April 2022
Enermech's new Azerbaijan partnership with Oil & Gas Proserv secures contracts with operators worth (USD) $3M
A new joint venture (JV) between EnerMech and Oil & Gas Proserv (OGP), an affiliated company of Nobel Energy Group in Azerbaijan, has secured its first two contracts in the region totalling (USD) $3 million. It is also expected to result in a recruitment drive later this year in line…
13 April 2022
Sustainable Marine ready to launch tidal energy onto Nova Scotia’s grid
ust days after the UN IPCC issued its call for action on the climate emergency, saying ‘it’s now or never”, Sustainable Marine is poised to push the button and feed zero emission electricity generated from the immense tidal flows in the Bay of Fundy into the Nova Scotia grid. The…
13 April 2022
Shell and Uniper to work together on blue hydrogen production facility in the UK
Uniper has signed an agreement with Shell to progress plans to produce blue hydrogen at Uniper’s Killingholme power station site, in the East of England. The hydrogen produced could be used to decarbonise industry, transport and power throughout the Humber region. The Humber Hub Blue Project includes plans for a…
12 April 2022
CNOOC Limited Announces Weizhou 12-8E Oilfield Development Project Commenced Production
CNOOC Limited announced that Weizhou12-8E oilfield development project has commenced production. The Weizhou 12-8E oilfield development project is located in Beibu Gulf in the South China Sea, with average water depth of about 30 meters. In addition to fully utilizing the existing processing facilities of Weixinan oilfields. A total of…
12 April 2022
BOEM Seeks Public Comment on Draft Environmental Analysis of Central California Offshore Wind Energy Area
As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy by 2030, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced the release of the draft Morro Bay Wind Energy Area (WEA) Environmental Assessment (EA) for public comment. The draft EA analyzed potential impacts…
12 April 2022
Neuconnect awards over £1.5bn of major contracts as first ever UK-Germany energy link moves and important step closer
NeuConnect – a vital new energy link between two of Europe’s largest energy markets – today announced key contract awards in the region of £1.5bn (€1.9bn), bringing the first direct link between the UK and German energy markets an important step closer. Following significant market interest in NeuConnect’s procurement programme,…
12 April 2022
Update on Prelude FLNG facility
Our focus at Prelude remains on the long-term and delivering safe, sustained and reliable performance into the future. Shell notes the announcement from NOPSEMA confirming Direction 1860 has been closed following Shell’s demonstration to NOPSEMA’s satisfaction that the facility can safely recover essential power and associated essential services following a…
12 April 2022
ASCO strengthens its position in renewables securing wind farm project work
Global integrated logistics and materials management company, ASCO, has been appointed by Vestas to work on a significant North-East offshore wind project, further strengthening its position in the renewables market. The project on the Seagreen offshore wind farm, located 27KM off the coast of Angus, will see ASCO's ship agency…
12 April 2022
AWS Wavesing gets shakedown at EMEC
Sea trials at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) have started, as part of the scientific testing programme for the AWS Waveswing wave energy converter. The initial shakedown testing at EMEC’s Scapa Flow test site in Orkney involved ten significant lifting, marine or diving operations demonstrating the practical deployment, operation…
12 April 2022
VAALCO Energy Announces Successful Drilling of Avouma 3H-ST Development Well
VAALCO Energy Inc. (NYSE: EGY; LSE: EGY) ("VAALCO" or the "Company") today announced the successful drilling of the Avouma 3H-ST development well that was drilled from the Avouma platform in the Etame field, offshore Gabon. Highlights Successfully drilled the Avouma 3H-ST development well with a lateral of 268 meters in…
12 April 2022
Launch of Cameron LNG Expansion to Increase Liquefied Natural Gas Production
TotalEnergies has signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Sempra Infrastructure, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and Japan LNG Investment – a company jointly owned by Mitsubishi Corporation and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) – for the expansion of Cameron LNG, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and export facility located…
12 April 2022
TotalEnergies and KGHM Join Forces to Develop Offshore Wind Power
TotalEnergies and KGHM signed a partnership to participate on a 50/50 basis in the Polish government tender for the development of offshore wind projects. The government has launched a new auction scheme covering 11 areas in the Polish Baltic Sea, representing an expected total capacity of over 10 GW, in…
11 April 2022
Longboat Energy plc Spud of Cambozola Exploration Well
Longboat Energy, the emerging full-cycle North Sea E&P company, has announced commencement of drilling operations on the Cambozola exploration well (Company 25%) in Norway. Cambozola is the primary prospect located in the PL1049/PL1049B/PL1049C licences in the Northern North Sea, in an area with significant existing infrastructure and just c. 30 km…
11 April 2022
Acreage for CO2 storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
On 8 April 2022, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy announced an area for CO2 storage pursuant to the CO2 Storage Regulations. This area comprises defined blocks in the North Sea.More
11 April 2022
Hod B starts production
Operator Aker BP and partner Pandion Energy report that production has started from Hod B in the southern North Sea. The first steel for Hod B was cut in Aker Solutions’ yard in Verdal, the day after the Norwegian Parliament adopted temporary changes in the petroleum tax regime in June…
11 April 2022
Neptune Energy ramps-up gas production from the Duva field
Neptune Energy and its partners announced gas production will be doubled from the Duva field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, supporting increased supplies to the UK and Europe. The partnership has worked closely with the Norwegian authorities to identify measures to help meet gas demand in Europe.…
11 April 2022
Gassco awards contract to Wood Group Norway
Gassco is pleased to announce the award of a three-year contract for engineering, procurement and management services to Wood Group Norway as. The contract will see Wood work closely with Gassco to renovate the gas receiving facilities through the provision of engineering, procurement and construction management services across the Easington…
11 April 2022
Lamprell MOU for offshore floating wind project
Lamprell is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NOV, a leading energy services company, to support its delivery of three 1 gigawatt (GW) offshore floating wind farms for Cerulean Winds, the UK-based floating offshore wind farm and green hydrogen infrastructure developer. Under…
11 April 2022
Maersk Drilling secures 19-month P&A contract through rig sharing agreement
Maersk Drilling has been awarded contracts which will see the harsh environment jack-up rig Maersk Resolute employed to plug and abandon a total of 31 wells in the Dutch sector of the North Sea in support of a rig sharing agreement between TotalEnergies EP Nederland B.V. and Petrogas E&P Netherlands…
11 April 2022
Argos Resources Limited PL001 Licence Extension
Argos Resources Limited (AIM: ARG.L), the Falkland Islands based exploration company focused on the North Falkland Basin, is pleased to announce that the Falkland Islands Government has extended the second term of the Company's PL001 Licence from 1 May 2022 to 31 December 2022, with no additional work commitments.
8 April 2022
Global energy spending set to reach record high of over $2 trillion in 2022, led by oil and gas
Surging oil, gas and power prices together with the European Union (EU)’s goals of becoming less dependent on Russian supplies and post-Covid-19 pandemic inflation will catapult global energy spending this year to $2.1 trillion, Rystad Energy research shows. A concern in energy markets is that the ongoing war in Ukraine…
8 April 2022
Drilling permit for well 35/9-16 A
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Neptune Energy Norge AS drilling permit for well 35/9-16 A, cf. Section 13 of the Resource Management Regulations.
8 April 2022
Transformational Acquisition of Siccar Point Energy Reinforces Ithaca as one of the leading UK North Sea E&P Operators
Ithaca Energy is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement to acquire Siccar Point Energy. Reinforces Ithaca as a Leading UK North Sea E&P Operator The acquisition will accelerate Ithaca’s growth, positioning it as one of the leading E&P operators in the UK North Sea through the addition…
8 April 2022
Corinth Pipeworks awarded contract by Subsea 7
Subsea 7 has awarded to Corinth Pipeworks (CPW), steel pipe segment of Cenergy Holdings, a contract to provide High Frequency Welding (HFW) steel pipes for the tie-back of OKEA Hasselmus gas discovery to the Draugen production platform in the Norwegian North Sea via one subsea well. This will be the…
8 April 2022
IKM Testing awarded contract on the Tyra Redevelopment Project
TotalEnergies EP Danmark A/S together with its Danish Underground Consortium partners Noreco and Nordsøfonden has awarded IKM Testing AS a contract on the Tyra Redevelopment Project. The contract will be managed from IKM Testing’s Head Office at Sola Norway, and will give high activity offshore in the Danish North Sea…
8 April 2022
Sale of vessels
Solstad Rederi AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Solstad Offshore ASA, has sold six vessels whereof four PSV’s Sea Trout, Normand Trym, Normand Vibran, REM Supplier and two AHTS’s Normand Ivan and Far Santana. Delivery of the six vessels to the new owner took place today, April 7th, 2022. The…
8 April 2022
Neptune Energy ramps-up gas production from the Duva field
Neptune Energy and its partners today announced gas production will be doubled from the Duva field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, supporting increased supplies to the UK and Europe. The partnership has worked closely with the Norwegian authorities to identify measures to help meet gas demand in…
8 April 2022
RWE signs grid connection agreement with Energinet for Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm
RWE has signed an agreement with the Danish grid operator Energinet for its Thor Offshore Wind Farm. The agreement regulates the technical set-up, the power quality and the cooperation between RWE and Energinet, at the point of connection (POC) in Volder Mark. With a planned capacity of around 1,000 megawatts…
7 April 2022
TGS Announces Delivery of Facies Map Browser v.4.7.0 in North West Europe
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, today announced the release of the North West Europe Facies Map Browser (FMB) 4.7.0. The industry-supported FMB continues to provide operators with a cost-efficient data-rich interpretation tool that provides critical subsurface insights to support conventional oil and gas exploration, and regional…
7 April 2022
Valaris Announces Contract Awards and Fleet Status Updates
Valaris Limited announced new contracts and contract extensions, with associated contract backlog of $181 million, awarded subsequent to issuing the Company’s most recent fleet status report on February 21, 2022. Two-year contract extensions with BP in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for managed rigs Mad Dog and Thunder Horse. The…
7 April 2022
Equinor and Naturgy team up to explore offshore wind development in Spain
Equinor and Naturgy partner up and enter a development agreement prior to Spain’s first upcoming offshore wind auction off the coast of the Canary Islands. The Spanish government aims to transform its energy mix and plans to develop up to 3 GW offshore wind by 2030. The first Spanish offshore…
7 April 2022
Ørsted Acquires Majority Stake in Scottish Floating Wind Development Project
Ørsted, the world leader in offshore wind, has acquired a majority stake in the 100 MW Salamander floating offshore wind development project on the Scottish coast, entering a joint venture (JV) partnership with Simply Blue Group, a leading Irish blue economy developer in floating offshore wind, wave energy and low-impact…
7 April 2022
GreenIT and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners to develop two offshore wind farms in Italy with 750MW capacity
The floating platforms will be realized in Sicily and Sardinia more than 35 km from the respective coasts. The innovative projects will allow to increase the production of green energy and minimise environmental impact, preventing up to 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, while promoting the growth…
7 April 2022
ProSep begins Water Treatment project on Scarborough Gas Project in Australia
A leading, global provider of environmentally friendly solutions, ProSep, has secured a water treatment project with an American multinational corporation on the Scarborough gas resource offshore of Western Australia for a seven- figure value. ProSep, the award-winning providers of process efficiency products including proprietary high-efficiency mixers and produced water treatment…
7 April 2022
Swire Energy Services awarded UK wind farm service contract with Ørsted.
Leading renewable energy company and wind farm operator, Ørsted has awarded integrated service provider Swire Energy Services (SES) a routine maintenance campaign contract for Summer 2022. The new contract will see SES provide services including blade maintenance and the provision of SOV and CTV logistics for two of Ørsted’s windfarms…
7 April 2022
Searcher announces 3D seismic data reprocessing project in Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada
Searcher Seismic, a leading service provider of global multi-client geoscience data, acquisition and management services, announced a 3D seismic data reprocessing project in Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada. The 3D dataset comprises eight 3D volumes covering over 5,000 km2 and focusing on the Sable Island Gas fields on the Scotian Shelf.…
6 April 2022
Mozambique Angoche MC3D
Geoex MCG has presented the multi-client 3D project in Mozambique, covering up to 8,500 km2. The proposed survey will be designed to cater to clients’ interest, with a priority considered in the North Angoche Basin, and further possibilities in other areas of Angoche, Zambezi and Save Basins. The pre-qualifying stage…
6 April 2022
TGS Announces a Second 3D Multi-Client Seismic Survey in the Egyptian Red Sea
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, today announced a new 3D seismic survey in the Red Sea, Egypt, in partnership with Schlumberger. This survey represents the second phase of new acquisition for the partners in this region and will encompass a minimum of 5,000 square kilometers. Data…
6 April 2022
PGS Releases Data from Cyprus Vision Phase One and Commences Phase Two
First data is ready on phase one of the Cyprus Vision data rejuvenation product and work has started on phase two. This project, to create a 20 000 sq. km contiguous, modern seismic data volume in the Cyprus EEZ, is carried out in partnership with the Cypriot Ministry for Energy,…
6 April 2022
Scarborough receives key primary approvals
Woodside, as operator for and on behalf of the Scarborough Joint Venture, has received key primary approvals from the Commonwealth-Western Australian Joint Authority to support execution of the Scarborough Project. The Scarborough Joint Venture has received an offer for the pipeline licence to construct and operate the Scarborough pipeline in…