Tullow Starts Drilling Ops at GVN-1 Exploration 
DEME Installs First Turbine at RWE’s Triton Knoll-Offshore-Renewables.com 
Stena Drilling Finds UKCS Work for Stena Don 
German Regulator Awaits Details for Complaints-Offshore-Renewables.com 
Equinor Studying Drone Use in Offshore Oil and Gas-Offshore-Renewables.com Tullow Starts Drilling Ops at GVN-1 Exploration
Oil and gas company Tullow Oil is set to start drilling at its Goliathberg Voltzberg…
DEME Installs First Turbine at RWE’s Triton Knoll-Offshore-Renewables.com
Belgium-based offshore installation firm DEME has installed the first wind turbine at RWE Renewables’ 857MW…
Stena Drilling Finds UKCS Work for Stena Don
Stena Don – Credit: Damen (File Photo) Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has signed a…
German Regulator Awaits Details for Complaints-Offshore-Renewables.com
Credit: Nord Stream 2 Construction work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline could be…
Equinor Studying Drone Use in Offshore Oil and Gas-Offshore-Renewables.com
Image: Ole Jørgen Bratland/Equinor Norwegian drone company Nordic Unmanned has signed a contract with energy…
Offshore Maintenance Backlogs: Breaking the Cycle
According to Rystad Energy, offshore maintenance budgets were slashed by at least 35% in 2020,…
Nexans Charters Havila Phoenix Vessel
Credit: MarineTraffic.com Norwegian offshore vessel operator Havila Shipping has won a charter deal with offshore…
Mott MacDonald Developing Concepts for Europe’s-Offshore-Renewables.com
Illustration: Offshore Wind Turbines in the Dutch North Sea – Image by Kruwt, AdobeStock UK-based…
First Gas from Energean’s Karish Field Could Be-Offshore-Renewables.com
The Energean Power FPSO Illustration – the vessel will be used to develop Energean’s gas…
Biden Administration Suspends Federal Oil and Gas-Offshore-Renewables.com
The Biden administration has temporarily suspended oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands…
Subsea 7 Nets ‘Substantial’ Offshore Platform-Offshore-Renewables.com
Illustration only – Credit: Subsea 7 Offshore installation and construction firm Subsea 7 said Friday…
Russian Pipelaying Vessels En Route to Nord Stream-Offshore-Renewables.com
Russian pipe-laying and other vessels are heading to Nord Stream 2 pipeline construction sites in…
Dana Taps KenzFigee for Lifting Services on Two-Offshore-Renewables.com
Credit: KenzFigee Dutch offshore lifting equipment company KenzFigee has secured a five-year deal to provide…
Stage is Set for Oil Demand
Schlumberger on Friday joined rivals in predicting a steady recovery in the oil industry this…
PetroRio Nears Full Takeover of Frade Offshore-Offshore-Renewables.com
Frade FPSO (File photo courtesy SBM Offshore) Brazilian oil company PetroRio has received regulatory approval…
Four Firms Looking to Develop Green Hydrogen Hub-Offshore-Renewables.com
Shell, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Vattenfall, and municipal company Wärme Hamburg are planning to jointly…
Solstad Offshore Vessel Trio Gets Renewables,
Credit: Solstad Offshore Norwegian offshore vessel company Solstad Offshore has secured four contracts in the…
Spirit Energy in 5-year Agreements with Subsea 7,-Offshore-Renewables.com
Oil and gas company Spirit Energy’s Norway has entered into five-year framework agreements with Subsea…
Solstad Nabs One-year Charter for Sea Forth PSV
Sea Forth – Image by Jan Henry Knutsen/MarineTraffic.com Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore has…
Wood, Spirit Energy Extending Life of Morecambe-Offshore-Renewables.com
The image of Central Morecambe Platform -Courtesy of Spirit Energy. Energy services giant Wood has…
Beacon Offshore Energy Finds Oil in U.S. Gulf of
Beacon Offshore Energy has made an oil discovery at the Winterfell offshore well in the…
State-run Utilities Shedding Coal to-Offshore-Renewables.com
Illustration: An offshore wind turbine – Credit:peter Polish state-run utilities PGE Enea and Tauron, which…
Boskalis Charters Southern Ocean Offshore Vessel
CSV Southern Ocean – Credit: Brian Scott/MarineTraffic.com Dutch marine services company Boskalis has chartered the…
Fugro to Provide Consultancy Services for-Offshore-Renewables.com
Credit: Fugro Dutch geotechnical survey services firm Fugro has secured a geotechnical and water consulting…
Germany ‘Regrets’ U.S. Plan to Sanction Vessel
The United States has informed Germany that it plans to impose sanctions on a Russian…
Deep Casing Tools Attracts New Investment-Offshore-Renewables.com
Aberdeen-based oil and gas technology company, Deep Casing Tools (DCT), has secured new investment of…
U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Vessel Bound for Nord
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a ship involved in building the Nord…
Germany Surpassed Its Offshore Wind Targets in-Offshore-Renewables.com
Germany boosted its offshore wind power capacity last year, topping its own targets, as Europe’s…
Heerema to Build Jacket for Hollandse Kust (noord)-Offshore-Renewables.com
Credit; HFG Dutch offshore construction firm Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has signed a contract with…
Elon Musk’s Firm Buys Two Offshore Rigs to Serve
Two offshore drilling rigs, previously used for oil and gas exploration beneath the seabed, could…
Mubadala Takes Stake in Egyptian Offshore Block-Offshore-Renewables.com
Bakheet Al Katheeri, Mubadala Petroleum’s Chief Executive Officer – File Photo: Mubadala Petroleum Abu Dhabi-based…
Permitting for Big US Offshore Wind Farm to Resume-Offshore-Renewables.com
© Peterjohn Chisholm / Adobe Stock The developer of the first major U.S. offshore wind…
DNV GL Gives Nod for Heerema’s Silent Offshore-Offshore-Renewables.com
Heerema Marine Contractors’ concepts for the silent installation of offshore facilities’ foundations have received a…
Allseas’ Subsea Mining Ship Project is Moving
(Photo: Allseas) Swiss-based Allseas has awarded Dutch subsea technology company Seatools the contract for the…
Ineos Charters Dolphin Drilling Rig for Its First
Borgland Dolphin – File Photo: Dolphin Drilling INEOS Energy has chartered Dolphin Drilling’s semi-submersible drilling…
Norway to Award Arctic Offshore Drilling Permits
Norway’s Oil and Energy Minister Tina Bru – Photo: OED – NTB Scanpix Norway expects…
Two Die in Incident Aboard BW Offshore FPSO in-Offshore-Renewables.com
FPSO Espoir Ivoirien – Credit: BW Offshore Two people died Thursday in an incident aboard…
Shift to Renewables Eases Key Environmental-Offshore-Renewables.com
Europe’s shift from fossil fuel-based electricity to renewable sources has reduced environmental problems while also…
Prep Work for Works in
The Russia-led Nord Stream 2 (NS2) consortium on Friday said preparatory work to complete the…
Drilling Deals Confirmed for Two Maersk Rigs in
Following a conditional letter of the award signed with the French oil giant Total last…
Germany’s Switch from Coal to Renewables: Gap to-Offshore-Renewables.com
German high-voltage grid operator Amprion is confident the country’s planned switch to renewable energy can…
OMV Petrom Spuds Two New Wells in Black Sea
OMV Petrom’s Black Sea Platform – Credit: OMV Petrom/Flickr Romanian oil and gas firm OMV…
Petrojarl Banff FPSO to Be Recycled in Denmark
M.A.R.S. Europe said it has been awarded a contract by Teekay Petrojarl Floating Production UK…
The 2020 Offshore Rig Market
Credit: alexpolo/AdobeStock Just how bad was it? The year 2020 has to be one of…
Equinor Adds One More Well to Deepsea Atlantic Rig
The Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig. (Photo: Marit Hommedal / Equinor ASA) Norwegian energy company Equinor…
Rovco Tapped for Subsea Services at Beatrice Wind
Credit: Rovco Rovco, a UK-based provider of ROV and hydrographic services, has signed a contract…
US Plans to Sanction Russian Vessel Involved in-Offshore-Renewables.com
The United States has told European allies it plans to impose sanctions on a Russian…
Petronas Hires Pacific Khamsin Drillship for
Pacific Khamsin – Credit: Anton Bergstrom Malaysian oil and gas company Petronas has chartered Pacific…
ADNOC Cuts Short Two Shelf Drilling Rig Contracts
Compact Driller – Capt. Tony Powell UAE-based firm ADNOC Drilling has decided on the early…
Israel and Four Arab States Discuss Energy Sector-Offshore-Renewables.com
Israel’s energy minister, Yuval Steinitz – Image by Shlomi Amsalem/Wikimedia – Under CC BY-SA 4.0…
Huisman’s Crane for OIM Wind’s Offshore
Credit: Huisman Dutch crane specialist Huisman has signed a letter of intent with China’s Yantai…
Nord Stream 2 Delays Pipe Laying Works Restart-Offshore-Renewables.com
The Russia-led Nord Stream 2 consortium is not resuming work to complete the subsea gas…
Endúr’s Offshore Fabrication Branch Files for-Offshore-Renewables.com
Norway’s Endúr Industrier AS, an offshore fabrication subsidiary of marine infrastructure group Endúr, on Friday…
Norway Eyes Sea Change in Deep Dive for Metals-Offshore-Renewables.com
Norway’s oil and gas reserves have made it one of the world’s wealthiest countries but…
BP plugs and abandons disappointing Ironbark well
Rig working on BP’s Ironbark-1 well offshore Australia has completed the work scope on the…
Fraunhofer IWES wraps up survey in Baltic Sea
Fraunhofer IWES has conducted a boulder detection and geohazard survey of 50 turbine locations and…
TGS Starts Espirito Santo 3D Seismic
COSL’s HYSY 720 vessel – Credit: Dmitriy Dronov/MarineTraffic Norwegian marine seismic data firm TGS on…
Spirit Energy Books Maersk Jack-Up Rig for North
Oil and gas company Spirit Energy has hired Maersk Drilling’s jack-up rig Maersk Resolve to…
Developers solicit input on new marine energy permitting toolkit
The project team working on the development of the U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored marine and…
Energean Sanctions Karish North Gas Field Project.
Mediterranean Sea-focused oil and gas company Energean has taken Final Investment Decision (“FID”) on the…
NPD Cuts 2021-2023 Oil Output Forecast-Offshore-Renewables.com
SIMEC Atlantis Energy’s tidal turbine – Credit: SIMEC Atlantis Energy Oil platform in Norway –…
Nord Stream 2 Set to Resume Pipelaying
The Russia-led Nord Stream 2 consortium said on Thursday that work to lay its subsea…
Total, Apache Make Another Oil Find Offshore
French oil giant Total and its partner Apache said Thursday they’d made a new significant…
U.S. Blacklists China’s CNOOC over South China Sea-Offshore-Renewables.com
The Trump administration added China’s CNOOC to a U.S. economic blacklist on Thursday, accusing the…
Lamprell to Split Three Ways. Puts Greater Focus-Offshore-Renewables.com
Lamprell, a company traditionally known as oil and gas rig builder, has this week announced…
Dana Petroleum Terminates Maersk Drilling Rig
File Photo: Maersk Drilling Oil company Dana Petroleum has terminated a contract for the use…
SEACOR Marine Completes Sale of Windcat to CMB
Credit: CMB New York-listed offshore vessel owner SEACOR Marine has completed the previously announced sale…
VR Training for BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim-Offshore-Renewables.com
Oil major BP has hired Aberdeen-based offshore training company, Survivex, to develop and deliver a…
Offshore Wind: Things are Getting Bigger
The global offshore wind industry has been picking up pace unabated by the global pandemic,…
Exxon Strikes Out at Hassa-1 Offshore Guyana
© Graham Buchan Innes / MarineTraffic.com Exxon Mobil Corp said on Friday that its latest…
Harren & Partner Adds Offshore Wind Vessel to-Offshore-Renewables.com
German shipping group Harren & Partner has added the jack-up vessel Wind Lift I to…
Eidesvik Offshore Nets Long-Term Charter for
Acergy Viking – Image by Wolfgang Plapp – MarineTraffic.com Norwegian offshore vessel operator Eidesvik Offshore…
Equinor, BHP, Chevron Get Gov’t Approvals
The Government of Canada has this week approved three offshore drilling projects in the Atlantic…
OGA to Take ‘Blended Approach’ with to License-Offshore-Renewables.com
The UK Oil and Gas Authority said Wednesday to would take a “blended approach” when…
Shell, Dayang Pen Accommodation Workboat
Dayang Opal – Credit: Dayang Enterprise Shell’s Malaysian subsidiary Sarawak Shell Berhad has extended the…