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6 April 2022
Dorado Production Licence
Carnarvon Energy Limited (“Carnarvon”) is pleased to advise that important progress continues to be made on the Dorado development. The National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator (“NOPTA”) has offered to grant the joint venture a life-of-field Production Licence (“PL”) in respect of the four blocks containing the Dorado field (“Licence Area”).…
6 April 2022
Equinor awarded the Smeaheia and Polaris CO2 licenses
Equinor has been awarded the operatorships for the development of the CO2 storages Smeaheia in the North Sea and Polaris in the Barents Sea . The two licenses are important building blocks for developing the Norwegian continental shelf into a leading province for CO2 storage in Europe. On Tuesday 05…
6 April 2022
Saipem: new offshore drilling contracts in Middle East and West Africa worth over 400 million USD
Saipem has been awarded new contracts in Offshore Drilling in the Middle East and in West Africa for a total amount of over 400 million USD. Two contracts have been awarded in the Middle East for two high specification jack-up drilling units, consisting of drilling and workover operations for a…
6 April 2022
Major Milestone for second revolutionary offshore installation vessel in DEME fleet
An official launching ceremony for the revolutionary offshore installation vessel ‘Green Jade’ was held at CSBC’s shipyard in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, marking a major milestone in the construction of this vessel, which is designed for the next generation of multi-megawatt turbines, jackets and components. ‘Green Jade’ will be the second of…
5 April 2022
ExxonMobil makes final investment decision on fourth Guyana offshore project
ExxonMobil has made a final investment decision for the Yellowtail development offshore Guyana after receiving government and regulatory approvals. The company’s fourth, and largest, project in the Stabroek Block is expected to produce approximately 250,000 barrels of oil per day starting in 2025. ExxonMobil makes final investment decision on fourth…
5 April 2022
SBM Offshore awarded contracts for ExxonMobil FPSO ONE GUYANA
SBM Offshore is pleased to announce that Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), an affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation, has confirmed the award of contracts for the Yellowtail development project located in the Stabroek Block in Guyana. Under these contracts, SBM Offshore will construct, install and then lease and…
5 April 2022
Longboat Energy plc Significant Discovery at Kveikje
Longboat Energy, the emerging full-cycle North Sea E&P company, is pleased to announce a significant discovery in the Equinor operated Kveikje exploration well (35/10-8S) in licence PL293B (Company 10%). The preliminary estimate of recoverable resources in Kveikje Main, being the primary target of the exploration well, is 28 to 48…
5 April 2022
Genesis awarded the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) Offshore FEED
The Northern Endurance Partnership will enable the East Coast Cluster by developing the common infrastructure needed to transport CO2 from emitters across the Humber and Teesside. Dense phase CO2 from NZT, in which Genesis has previously supported the pre-FEED phases, as well as CO2 from Zero Carbon Humber will be…
5 April 2022
TGS Initiates Peninsular Malaysia Regional 3D Seismic Reprocessing – Dataset Aims to Provide Enhanced Basin Insight
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, today announced the start of a new 3D reprocessing project offshore Malaysia, the first stage of which will cover a 16,957 square kilometer area, integrating existing 3D seismic data offshore Peninsular Malaysia. Thirty-six 3D seismic surveys of varying vintages covering a…
5 April 2022
Repsol and Ørsted to explore joint development of floating offshore wind projects in Spain
Repsol and Ørsted have signed an agreement to identify and, where appropriate, jointly develop floating offshore wind projects in Spain. Both companies have the ambition to become together a leading developer in Spanish floating offshore wind by combining their strengths. The alliance will combine Repsol's experience as a global multi-energy…
5 April 2022
IKM Testing UK wins multi-year well services contract with bp
Independent integrated solutions provider IKM Testing UK has been awarded a multi-year contract to deliver well integrity services across bp’s portfolio of North Sea assets. The contract also has future provision for supporting bp’s international assets with similar workscopes. The agreement, the first well services contract between the companies includes…
5 April 2022
Borr Drilling Limited – Announcement of new contracts and extensions for jack-up drilling rigs
Borr Drilling Limited (the “Company”) (NYSE and OSE: “BORR”) is pleased to announce it has been awarded new contracts and extensions for 5 of its premium jack-up drilling rigs. These awards increase the company’s backlog by approximately 2,530 days, excluding optional periods. The premium jack-up drilling rig “Gunnlod” has secured…
4 April 2022
Maersk Drilling secures one-year multi-country commitment for drillship with Shell
Maersk Drilling has been awarded contracts with Shell for the provision of the 7th generation drillship Maersk Voyager for drilling services offshore multiple countries. The contracts are expected to commence in April 2022, with a total firm duration of one year. The total contract value is approximately USD 107.5m, including…
4 April 2022
Contract award - MMA Inscription
MMA Offshore Limited (“MMA” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract with Woodside Energy Ltd (“Woodside”), as operator for and on behalf of the Scarborough Joint Venture to support offshore field development drilling for the Scarborough Project in Australia’s North West. The contract…
4 April 2022
Shearwater GeoServices awarded 3D survey, imaging, and reservoir characterization contract in Korea
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (“Shearwater”) has been awarded the contract for two 3D seismic surveys offshore South Korea, together with seismic data processing and imaging by Korea National Oil Corporation (“KNOC”). This is Shearwater’s first contract with KNOC. The contract includes reservoir properties prediction analysis following processing. It will be…
4 April 2022
Technip Energies to Provide FEED for Equinor Floating Offshore Wind Firefly Project in South Korea
Technip Energies (PARIS:TE) has been selected by Equinor South Korea Co Ltd to perform a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for the offshore floating wind Firefly project, located 70 kilometers offshore the East Coast of South Korea. The FEED contract covers engineering of the floating wind turbine substructures for the proposed…
4 April 2022
Kongsberg Maritime wins €20M contract for integrated equipment packages for another two newbuild offshore wind commissioning service operation vessels
Further to the announcement in June 2021 of the contract to design and equip two construction service operation vessels (CSOVs/SOVs) for the Norway-based offshore wind service company Integrated Wind Solutions ASA (IWS), Kongsberg Maritime (KM) is pleased to announce a contract for equipment packages for two further vessels in the…
4 April 2022
East Anglia ONE North Offshore Windfarm & East Anglia TWO Offshore Windfarm development consent decisions announced
The applications for the East Anglia ONE North and East Anglia TWO Offshore Windfarms have been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.Full story here
4 April 2022
Rig mobilised to Apus-1 well
Carnarvon Energy Limited is pleased to announce that the Noble Tom Prosser jack-up drilling rig has mobilised to the Apus-1 well location, and expects to commence drilling operations within a week. The rig recently completed drilling the successful Pavo-1 well in proximity to the Apus-1 well location, which resulted in…
4 April 2022
IOG plc Operational Update
IOG plc ("IOG", or "the Company"), (AIM: IOG.L), the Net Zero UK gas and infrastructure operator focused on high return projects, provides a further Phase 1 update. The Company and its offshore Duty Holder ODE Asset Management (ODEAM) have continued to investigate the previously announced chemical injection fault on the…
1 April 2022
New long term PSV contracts in Norway
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS and Solstad Offshore ASA (“Solstad”) have entered into new long-term contracts for the PSVs Normand Server, Normand Supporter and Normand Fortune. The new contracts will start in direct continuation of current firm periods on the vessels, and keep them fully utilized to Q1/Q2 2027. The vessels, that…
1 April 2022
Delineation of the shut down Øst Frigg gas field and dry well northeast of the Alvheim field in the North Sea – 25/2-23 A and 25/2-23 S
Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 873, has concluded the drilling of appraisal well 25/2-23 A (Øst Frigg Alfa) and wildcat well 25/2-23 S. The wells were drilled about 45 kilometres northeast of the Alvheim field in the North Sea, around 220 kilometres northwest of Stavanger. The Øst Frigg…
1 April 2022
Petrofac awarded major Australian decommissioning contract
Petrofac, a leading provider of services to the global energy industry, has been awarded a major decommissioning contract by the Australian Government, heralding the start of an era of decommissioning in the nation’s offshore oil and gas sector. Petrofac’s Australia team based in Perth, WA, has been contracted to complete…
1 April 2022
Helix Energy Solutions Announces Multi-Year Contract with Shell
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE: HLX) a leading provider of offshore energy services, is pleased to announce it has entered into a new multi-year contract with Shell Offshore Inc. to provide Well Intervention services in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Commencing in March 2022, the three-year contract includes an…
1 April 2022
Searcher announces agreement with BP and Hess for Tangier 3D in Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada
Searcher Seismic, a leading service provider of global multi-client geoscience data, acquisition and management services, today announced an agreement with BP Canada and Hess Canada with relation to brokerage of their Tangier 3D seismic Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada. The Tangier 3D seismic survey consists of 8,502 km2 of high-quality wide-azimuth…
1 April 2022
Energia Group awards Offshore Survey Contract for North Celtic Sea Wind Farm to Green Rebel
The award of this contract represents an important milestone for Energia’s North Celtic Sea offshore wind project and for Green Rebel’s growing presence in the emerging offshore wind market in Ireland. In the global market for offshore wind, two Irish companies working together - to facilitate the achievement of Ireland’s…
1 April 2022
New Charter with Equinor for REM MIST
Remøy Shipping has been awarded a new charter with Equinor for REM MIST (2011, PSV PX 105). The firm period is six months with options for further extensions. REM MIST has been on successive charters to Equinor since her delivery in 2011. The new charter will commence in direct continuation…
1 April 2022
Shell Trinidad and Tobago delivers first gas from Colibri Project
Shell Trinidad and Tobago announces that production has started on Block 22 and NCMA-4 in the North Coast Marine Area (NCMA) in Trinidad and Tobago. The start-up of Colibri follows the amendment to the Block 6 Production Sharing Contract for the Manatee field, marking yet another significant milestone in Shell’s…
31 March 2022
Cambo Licence Extension
Siccar Point Energy and joint venture partner Shell have been awarded a 2-year licence extension for the Cambo field from the North Sea Transition Authority (formerly the Oil and Gas Authority). Siccar Point continues to work with its co-venturer Shell and the UK government to map out the next steps…
31 March 2022
PanGeo Subsea, a Kraken Robotics Company, Awarded $5 Million Decommissioning Campaign from Couvillion Group
PanGeo Subsea, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kraken Robotics Inc. (TSX-V: PNG, OTCQB: KRKNF), Canada’s Ocean Company™, is pleased to announce the award of a $5 Million Acoustic Corer™ contract in the US Gulf of Mexico. Couvillion Group issued this decommissioning project to PanGeo for commencement in Q2, 2022. This…
31 March 2022
PGS Partners with ANH and SGC on Colombia Pacific Seismic Project
A new reprocessed regional Tumaco Basin dataset will provide the entry tool for exploration in Colombia’s Pacific offshore area, improving imaging of the play elements and de-risking the prospectivity potential. PGS has received a “Surface Prospection Clearance” (APS) issued by the National Hydrocarbon Agency (ANH) from Colombia, which authorizes it…
31 March 2022
Contract award for Viking Prince
Eidesvik Offshore ASA (“Eidesvik”) has been awarded a contract with Equinor Energy AS (“Equinor”) for the PSV Viking Prince. The firm period is six months with options for further extensions. The contract will commence in April/May 2022. Viking Prince was upgraded with a battery hybrid system and a shore power…
31 March 2022
Processing of Pluto gas starts at North West Shelf
The processing of gas from the offshore Pluto fields has commenced ahead of schedule at the North West Shelf Project’s (NWS) Karratha Gas Plant (KGP). This accelerated production of Pluto gas has been enabled by the start-up of the Pluto-KGP Interconnector (Interconnector). The Interconnector is a 3.2 kilometre pipeline which…
31 March 2022
A new summit for low carbon energy
Summit E&P Ltd (“SEPL”) is pleased to announce significant steps forward in the transition of its shareholder Sumitomo Corporation towards lower carbon energy systems. Upstream oil and gas assets will be divested while a new sister company to SEPL has been established as a 100% subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation –…
31 March 2022
Ørsted + ATP and partners present concept for energy island in the North Sea
The ‘North Sea Energy Island’ will be an island in constant development, even after its construction is completed. It’s a dynamic piece of Danish history, designed to be the hub for the green transformation. Determination and clear actions are required, when Europe in the coming decade will deliver its contribution…
31 March 2022
Transocean Ltd. Invests in Exploration of Seabed Minerals to Support the Renewable Energy Supply Chain
Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) announced today that it has purchased a minority interest in Ocean Minerals Ltd., a company engaged in the exploration of seabed resources containing metals critical to the growing renewable energy market. Ocean Minerals, through its affiliate, Moana Minerals Limited, was awarded a license by the Cook…
30 March 2022
Orcadian Energy plc UKCS License P2320 – Phase ‘A’ extension and Resource Update
Orcadian Energy (AIM:ORCA), the North Sea focused, low emissions, oil and gas development company, is pleased to announce an extension to Phase ‘A’ of Licence P2320 and a resource update. Highlights: Phase ‘A’ of Licence P2320 extended to 14th May 2023 with the Initial Term also being extended to 14th…
30 March 2022
DOF Subsea Atlantic contracts update
DOF Subsea is pleased to announce multiple new contracts within Renewables and Oil & Gas in the North Sea. The projects, to be delivered in 2022, total more than 185 vessel days excluding any optional work. Skandi Acergy, Skandi Constructor, Skandi Hera and selected third-party vessels will be utilised in…
30 March 2022
Shearwater GeoServices to perform third Isometrix survey at Equinor’s Mariner Field
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (“Shearwater”) is pleased to announce the award of a 4D seismic monitor project at Equinor’s Mariner field offshore UK. This will be the third Isometrix survey over the field and the second 4D monitor survey. The one-month project will be executed during the 2022 North Sea…
30 March 2022
Contract award OSCV Siem Spearfish
Siem Offshore has entered into new contract for the OSCV Siem Spearfish in the UK sector. The contract will commence in direct continuation of its current commitment, securing continued utilization well into the second quarter of 2022. The scope of work consists of walk-to-work (“W2W”) operations for accommodation support during…
30 March 2022
Seaway 7 awarded EPIC Cable Installation for EnBW’s He Dreiht Offshore Windfarm
Seaway 7 ASA is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a sizeable contract by Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW) for the Engineering, Procurement, Installation and Commissioning (EPIC) Works of inner-array grid cables on its He Dreiht Offshore Wind Farm project. The scope includes the supply and installation of around…
30 March 2022
Blue Tern installs monopiles on Kaskasi offshore wind farm
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier (FOWIC) has won a contract for the provision of its jack-up installation vessel the ‘Blue Tern’. The Blue Tern will be used for the transportation and installation of monopiles on RWE’s Kaskasi offshore wind farm in tandem with DEME Offshore’s installation vessel ‘Neptune’. The contract is included…
30 March 2022
Shell Adds Deep-Water Production in the Gulf of Mexico with PowerNap
Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell), a subsidiary of Shell plc, announces the start of production at PowerNap, a subsea development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico with an estimated peak production of 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d). PowerNap is a tie-back to the Shell-operated Olympus production hub in…
30 March 2022
Woodside update
FAR Limited provides the following update having completed its investigations of options relating to the Woodside Contingent Payment and the advancement of strategies associated with the Company’s exploration portfolio in The Gambia. Woodside Contingent Payment The Woodside Contingent Payment entitlements are associated with the sale of FAR’s entire interest in…
29 March 2022
QatarEnergy selects Fugro to de-risk its major redevelopment project of Bul Hanine and Maydan Mahzam fields
Fugro has won a contract to deliver a high-value multi-year seabed Geo-data acquisition and geo-consultancy services to QatarEnergy as part of the redevelopment of the Bul Hanine and Maydan Mahzam fields in offshore Qatar. Operating from three state-of-the-art vessels (Fugro Proteus, Pacific Grouse and Bourbon Enterprise), a Fugro team of…
29 March 2022
New phase in the recovery from the Skarv field
The licensees in Skarv Unit have in a notification to the Ministry stated that they will start the gas blowing from parts of the field in 2022. The Ministry has taken note of the licensees' decision. More
29 March 2022
Empire Wind selected Maersk to supply wind installation vessel
Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and bp, has awarded a contract to Maersk Supply Service for charter of its newbuild wind installation vessel (WIV). This vessel, together with US constructed barges and tugs built and operated by Kirby Offshore Wind, will be used for the installation of…
29 March 2022
IOG plc Operational Update
IOG plc , provides a preliminary update on Phase 1 production and progress with the resumption of Southwark drilling. Blythe & Elgood Fields The Blythe and Elgood fields are produced via the normally unmanned Blythe platform which is connected via a 12" line to the main 24" Saturn Banks Pipeline…
29 March 2022
CorPower Ocean partners with subsea composite specialist Diab
CorPower Ocean has partnered with subsea composite specialist Diab for the construction of its first commercial scale Wave Energy Converter (WEC). The ocean energy developer is currently fabricating its next generation C4 WEC, with dual build-out operations in Sweden and Portugal. Part of the flagship HiWave-5 Project, the WEC will…
29 March 2022
Ashtead Technology completes first significant subsea monitoring project using LUMA™ modems
Ashtead Technology has successfully completed its first significant subsea monitoring project using Hydromea’s LUMA™ high-speed through-water wireless optical modems since signing their global rental partnership last year. The project saw Ashtead Technology provide its Autonomous Structure Monitoring Systems, which were each integrated with LUMA™ optical modems, to complete an underwater…