Petronas Hires Maersk Developer Rig for Suriname
Malaysian oil company Petronas has hired Maersk Drilling’s semi-submersible drilling rig Maersk Developer to drill…
Month: June 2020
SeaBird Wins Short Term Work for ‘Eagle Explorer’.
Eagle Explorer – Credit: SeaBird Exploration Oslo-listed seismic data acquisition company Seabird Exploration has won…
Aker BP Awards Aker Solutions $175,5M Offshore
Valhall field – Credit: Aker BP Norwegian oil company Aker BP has awarded an offshore…
Shell, Peterson Extend Lowestoft Base Contract
Image Credit: Peterson Offshore energy industry logistics provider Peterson has agreed on a contract extension…
Dominion Installs 12MW Test Wind Farm ahead-Offshore-Renewables.com
Dominion Energy has completed the installation of the two-turbine, 12-megawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW)…
Rever Completes IRM Campaign for Total
Barry Macleod, Rever Offshore CEO UK-based offshore services firm Rever Offshore has said it has…
Transborders Energy, SBM Offshore in FLNG Pact
Australia’s Transborders Energy, a company working to develop an FLNG solution for marginal field development,…
Lithuania Selects Location for 700MW Offshore Wind-Offshore-Renewables.com
Illustration – Credit:badahos/AdobeStock The government of Lithuania is pressing ahead with plans to develop a…
CNOOC Makes ‘Significant’ Discovery Offshore
Illustration only; Image Credit: xmentoys / Adobe Stock Chinese oil and gas company CNOOC has…
Ampelmann Nabs Five Gangway Orders in Offshore-Offshore-Renewables.com
Image Credit: Ampelmann Offshore gangway specialist Ampelmann has won several new contracts in the offshore…
Parkwind CEO Becomes Chairman of Belgian Offshore-Offshore-Renewables.com
The Board of Directors of the Belgian Offshore Platform (BOP), Belgium’s offshore wind industry body,…
Borssele Beta cable work to cost TenneT € 50 million more
Works to install the Borssele Beta export cable in the Netherlands will set TenneT back…
RVO teases IJmuiden Ver ground model tender
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) plans to issue a tender for the development of an…
Taiwan plans to auction off 5 GW of offshore wind by 2023
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs plans to hold three offshore wind auctions for a combined…
Repsol to Extend Rev Field Life to 2023 End-Offshore-Renewables.com
Credit: Norskpetroleum.no Spanish oil company Repsol has received consent from the Norwegian regulators for life…
Parat Halvorsen Electric Boilers for Edvard Grieg-Offshore-Renewables.com
Norwegian company Parat Halvorsen will supply the electric boilers that will provide the heating on…
Kongsberg Maritime Launches Remote DPO Training
(Photo: Kongsberg Maritime) As the maritime world continues to turn to digital technologies to help…
Seafox, LOC Sign Rig Move Services Deal
Seafox Burj – Image by Hal Ghent – MarineTraffic Marine and engineering consulting firm LOC…
Ocean Power Technologies Launches Hybrid-Offshore-Renewables.com
Ocean Power Technologies, an ocean energy technology developer, has expanded its offering with the latest…
Dolphin Drilling Inks 3-Well LoI with Norwegian
Offshore drilling contractor Dolphin Drilling has signed a letter of intent with an unnamed Norwegian…
Half of Norway’s Oil Output to be Powered from-Offshore-Renewables.com
Offshore platforms delivering almost half of Norway’s oil production might soon be powered from shore,…
UK Gov’t Advised to Harness Pandemic to Speed-Offshore-Renewables.com
From creating jobs in home insulation to hiking dirty fuel taxes and expanding electric-vehicle charging,…
Cortez Subsea Nets 5-Year Subsea Inspection
Subsea services firm Cortez Subsea has won a contract with Repsol to provide a subsea…
Site Survey to Start for Sofia Offshore Wind Farm
The Haven Seariser 2 jack-up vessel will soon be at work at nearshore area between…
Aker BP Secures Approval for Two Norwegian Sea
Deepsea Nordkapp – Credit: Dag erik hareide/MarineTraffic Norwegian oil company Aker BP has secured regulatory…
Aker Solutions Gets LoI for $205M Breidablikk-Offshore-Renewables.com
Image Credit: Aker Solutions Norwegian engineering company Aker Solutions been awarded a letter of intent…
CSBC-DEME JV Makes FID for First Taiwan-built
CDWE, a joint venture company between Taiwanese company CSBC and Belgian offshore contractor DEME has…
Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Names New Senior-Offshore-Renewables.com
The Norwegian oil and gas regulator Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has appointed new senior management team….
Brent Alpha Topside Arrives at Able Seaton
Shell’s giant Brent Alpha oil and gas platform, removed from its offshore location in the…
Loading of First Monopiles for Kriegers-Offshore-Renewables.com
Crane specialist Liebherr has shared images of the recent loading of the first monopiles in Rostock,…
Three Firms Vying for BHP’s Trion FSO Award-Offshore-Renewables.com
Australian company BHP has selected three contractors to deliver an early engineering study for a…
Kooiman Marine Completes Vessel Conversion for Van
Dutch shipbuilding group Kooiman Marine has completed the conversion of Van Stee Offshore’s new Multi-Purpose…
Lamprell, Seaway 7 Firm-up Seagreen Jackets-Offshore-Renewables.com
Offshore construction company Lamprell has won a firm order to deliver substructures for Seagreen –…
Amprion Sets Out North Sea Offshore Wind Grid-Offshore-Renewables.com
German power grid company Amprion on Wednesday unveiled long-term plans for joint European offshore wind…
Vyacheslav Tikhonov Seismic Vessel Stays with
Vyacheslav Tikhonov -Credit: Polarcus Russian shipping company Sovcomflot will not redeliver the Vyacheslav Tikhonov seismic…
Rigmar Wraps Inspection and Maintenance Work at
Inspection, maintenance, and marine services company, Rigmar Group, has delivered a two-year contract to carry…
DeepOcean Secures Subsea Work at Repsol’s Yme-Offshore-Renewables.com
Image Credit: DeepOcean Offshore installation contractor DeepOcean has been awarded an EPCI contract for marine…
Sangomar on Track for First Oil in 2023
Sangomar FPSO Render – Image Credit: Woodside Australian oil and gas Woodside has reiterated that…
Offshore Drillers Facing Second Wave of
The companies that operate offshore drilling rigs for major oil producers face a second wave…
Norway Plans Large Expansion of Arctic Oil
Offshore rigs in Norway – Illustration; Credit:mariusltu/AdobeStock Norway plans to offer up to 136 new…
LR to Advise on Hywind Tampen Control Room Design-Offshore-Renewables.com
Energy consultancy company Lloyd’s Register (LR) will be providing design consultancy for the control room…
Boskalis Removes Neptune’s Dutch North Sea
Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has completed the removal of three platforms from the…
Ørsted Hires EWE for Substation Maintenance at-Offshore-Renewables.com
Danish offshore wind farm developer Ørsted has awarded German service provider EWE a contract for…
Fugro Says Completes Middle East’s First Uncrewed
Image Credit: Fugro Dutch offshore survey company Fugro has said it has completed the Middle…
KBR to Move Away from LNG, Energy Business-Offshore-Renewables.com
Credit: KBR Engineering and construction firm KBR Inc will exit most of its liquefied natural…
Jan De Nul Completes Installation of Trianel
Image Credit: Jan De Nul Jan De Nul Group last week completed the offshore Trianel…
China’s Jutal Nets Offshore Wind, FPSO Orders-Offshore-Renewables.com
Illustration only; Image by Ian Dyball/AdobeStock China’s Jutal Offshore Oil Services Limited has said it…
Uzma to Deliver Water Injection Module for-Offshore-Renewables.com
Malaysian energy services company Uzma has won a contract to deliver a portable water injection…
Keppel Starts Arbitration Against Awilco Drilling
Keppel Corporation has launched arbitration proceedings against offshore drilling company Awilco Drilling over the latter’s…
DSME Delivers Excelerate’s 10th FSRU
Excelerate Sequoia – Credit: Excelerate Energy South Korean shipbuilding firm Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering…
World’s Largest Semi-Submersible Crane Vessel to
re installation specialist Heerema Marine Contractors will transport and install Dana Petroleum’s P11-Unity platform, under…
Aker BP’s Valhall Flank West Drilling Program
Norwegian oil company Aker BP has completed the drilling program at its Valhall Flank West…
Lukoil Spuds Caspian Sea Well
Image Credit: Lukoil Russian oil company Lukoil has kicked off drilling operations at the Shirotno-Rakushechnaya…
China to Boost Oil, Gas Output in 2020-Offshore-Renewables.com
South China Sea – Illustration only – Credit: corlaffra – AdobeStock China aims to produce…
Nord Stream 2 Finds Replacement for Chief Project
Nord Stream 2 (NS2), the company for building a transport link for Russian gas into…
SIMEC Atlantis Gets Hold of 12MW Tidal Power-Offshore-Renewables.com
Illustration; A SIMEC Atlantis Tidal Power Turbine – Credit: SIMEC Atlantis Tidal energy company SIMEC…
GE to Hire 250 Workers at Wind Turbine Blade-Offshore-Renewables.com
GE Renewable Energy plans to recruit 250 workers at its LM Wind Power wind turbine…
CNOOC Buys Two Carbon-neutral LNG Cargoes from
China National Offshore Oil Corp, or CNOOC, has agreed to buy from Royal Dutch Shell…
Equinor Gets OK for North Sea Pilot Well
Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has received regulatory approval to drill a pilot hole…
Asia’s Oil Demand Recovery Remains-Offshore-Renewables.com
The recovery in Asia’s demand for oil remains fragile despite the reopening of economies across…
Altrad to Assist with Tolmount Platform Hook-Up-Offshore-Renewables.com
Industrial services provider Altrad has won a contract with Rosetti Marino to assist with the…
Neptune Energy Plans to Let 400 Office Workers Go-Offshore-Renewables.com
Oil and gas company Neptune Energy is looking to reduce its workforce by 400 positions,…
Petrobras’ Ceara Cluster Shallow Water Fields Up-Offshore-Renewables.com
Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras has kicked off a sale process for its Atum, Curima,…
Petronas Puts Off Kebabangan Field Maintenance
Illustration / Image credit: karlstury – AdobeStock Malaysia’s Petronas said it has deferred maintenance activities…
Navantia-Windar Wins $392M Contract to Build-Offshore-Renewables.com
Iberdrola, through its French subsidiary Ailes Marines, has awarded the Navantia-Windar UTE consortium a contract…
Van Oord to Lay Off 500 Employees
Dutch offshore and dredging contractor Van Oord said Tuesday it would lay off 500 people,…
Heerema’s Aegir Heavy Lifter in Drop Fall Incident
The article has been updated to include a statement by the Heerema Marine Contractors’ spokesperson….
Sasol to Cut Jobs, End West African Oil-Offshore-Renewables.com
Sasol Ltd plans to cut jobs and end West African oil operations as part of…
Seamec Awards Fugro a 3-Year IRM Deal Offshore
Image Credit: Fugro Dutch offshore services company Fugro has won a 3-year inspection, repair and…
2nd Wind Marine Reveals Design for U.S. Offshore
Louisiana-based company 2nd Wind Marine plans to design, finance, build and operate two Jones-Act-compliant jack-up…
Shelf Drilling Loses Drilling Contract in Egypt
Shelf Drilling has seen another offshore rig contract terminated, this time for a jack-up rig…
Norway Offers 36 Offshore Blocks to E&P Firms
Image Credit: Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Energy companies can apply to explore for oil and gas…
Construction Starts for Asia’s Largest Offshore-Offshore-Renewables.com
Taiwanese company Tien Li Offshore Wind Technology has started construction on 210,000 square meter facility…
Geo Ranger Survey Vessel Passes Sea Trials
Geo Ranger during sea trials – Credit: Royal Niestern Sander The hydrographic survey vessel Geo…