Brent Nears 5-Month High as Hurricane Shuts 84% of-Offshore-Renewables.com
Huricane Laura – Image: National Hurricane Center Oil rose towards $46 a barrel on…
Month: August 2020
NATO Seeks to Avoid Accidents in East Med Dispute-Offshore-Renewables.com
NATO is looking at ways to avoid accidental clashes in the Eastern Mediterranean while supporting…
Hermitage Offshore Services Appeals NYSE Delisting
Offshore vessel owner Hermitage Offshore Services has appealed against the New York Stock Exchange’s move…
CGG Kicks Off Northern North Sea Survey
CGG, a France-based provider of seismic data for oil and gas exploration and production, has…
FAR OK with Cairn’s Sangomar Stake Sale. Won’t-Offshore-Renewables.com
FAR, an Australian oil and gas company with a share in the $4.2 billion Sangomar…
Norway’s DOF Nets Four Petrobras Contracts Worth
Norwegian subsea project and marine services provider DOF Subsea has been awarded four new contracts…
Borr Drilling Posts $109,6M 2Q Loss
Jack-up drilling rig contractor Borr Drilling on Friday reported a $109,6 million net loss for…
Akastor Assumes Full Control over DOF Deepwater
Norwegian oil services investment firm Akastor will take full ownership of DOF Deepwater, a joint…
Drone Brings Cargo to Offshore-Offshore-Renewables.com
Norwegian oil company Equinor has successfully sent a drone carrying a 3D-printed cargo from shore…
Med Exploration Dispute draw EU Sanctions for
The European Union is preparing sanctions against Turkey that could be discussed at the bloc’s…
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit Removes Ninian Topsides
Credit: Allsea Allseas’ colossal Pioneering Spirit offshore construction – or in this case “deconstruction…
Shearwater Geo to Shoot Seismic for Total in-Offshore-Renewables.com
Credit; Shearwater GeoServices French oil giant Total has hired marine seismic surveyor Shearwater GeoServices…
Digital Twinning & Reduced Operating-Offshore-Renewables.com
The oil and gas industry is currently enduring one of the most challenging periods in…
Encouraged by TPAO’s Giant Gas Find, Trillion
Black Sea-focused oil and gas company Trillion Energy has said it will drill deeper wells…
Dutch Shipyard Wins Contract to Build New Vessel
Coastwise Offshore Services and Next Generation Shipyards signed a contract for the building of a…
Total Spuds Luiperd-1X Well Offshore South Africa
Deepsea Stavanger drilling rig/Credit: BP/Flickr After striking a play-opening gas find offshore South Africa…
MacGregor Bags ‘Largest Single Vessel Order’ in
Deck machinery and equipment company MacGregor, a Cargotec subsidiary, has won what it says is…
End of the Line for Deepsea Bergen Drilling Rig
Norwegian offshore drilling company Odfjell Drilling will recycle its oldest drilling rig the Deepsea Bergen,…
Norwegian Offshore Drilling Firm Enters Floating
Norwegian offshore oil and gas drilling contractor Odfjell Drilling is stepping out of the comfort…
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier Jack-Up Picks Up More Work
Offshore wind installation company Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has won a conditional contract for its Brave…
Exxon Presses for Guyana Approval of Third-Offshore-Renewables.com
(Photo: SBM Offshore) Exxon Mobil Corp is pressing Guyana’s newly-installed government for approval of…
Angola Aims to Reverse Oil Output Decline
Maersk Voyager drillship -. Credit: Maersk Drilling Africa’s second-biggest oil exporter, Angola, has unveiled…
Polarcus Hired for 3D Survey Project in W. Africa
A Polarcus vessel – Credit: Polarcus Oslo-listed offshore seismic acquisition company Polarcus has won…
McDermott to Provide FEED for Subsea Pipeline in-Offshore-Renewables.com
Illustration by alexyz3d/AdobeStock Offshore engineering, construction, and services provider McDermott has won a contract…
Petrobras Awards Fugro Three Long-Term ROV
Dutch offshore services company Fugro has won three long-term contracts by Petrobras to provide remotely…
New Owners Take Over Polar King IMR Vessel-Offshore-Renewables.com
Oslo-listed offshore vessel owner GC Rieber Shipping said Tuesday it had delivered the Polar King…
All Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Turbine
German energy company RWE has informed that it has completed the installation of all 90…
Greenpeace Activists Blast Shell’s Brent Decom
Greenpeace activists have launched a protest near Shell’s Brent Charlie platform north-east of the Shetland…
Kongsberg’s DP Digital Survey App Gets Bureau
Norwegian maritime equipment and technology giant Kongsberg Maritime has received Approval in Principle from Bureau…
First Topside Module Installed on Energean
First topside module was lifted and installed earlier this week on the Energean Power FPSO…
Jackup Rig Demand at the Mercy of
Over the past four months we have been flooded by news of just how badly…
Equinor Axing Jobs in US, Canada and UK-Offshore-Renewables.com
Norwegian oil and gas firm Equinor is set to cut jobs significantly in the United…
Aker’s Carbon Capture, Offshore Wind Spinoffs
Shares of Aker Carbon Capture and Aker Offshore Wind surged on their first day of…
IEV Wins Pipeline Inspection Gig Offshore-Offshore-Renewables.com
Subsea services provider IEV has been awarded an advanced inspection solutions contract in Malaysia. The…
Seadrill Shareholders Could be Left with Nothing
A Seadrill drillship / Credit; Seadrill Offshore drilling rig contractor Seadrill’s ongoing attempt to…
World’s Largest Offshore Drilling Company Valaris
A Valaris Drilling rig – Credit: MarineTraffic Valaris, the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor…
Global Heavy Lift Vessel Sector
The global heavy lift vessel market is a difficult place to be. Utilization for the…
Noble Energy Shareholders to Vote on Chevron-Offshore-Renewables.com
Credit: Noble Energy Oil and gas company Noble Energy has set a date for…
Floatel Sees No Improvement in Offshore
Cash strapped offshore accommodation provider Floatel expects a prolonged downturn in the offshore accommodation market,…
Augean Buys Drilling Waste Management Firm
August 24, 2020 Credit: Augean North Sea-focused provider of waste and decommissioning services Augean North…
SBM Offshore Buys SBM Installer Vessel to Sell It
SBM Installer – Credit: SBM Offshore Dutch FPSO leasing company SBM Offshore has agreed to…
TGS Begins ‘Pioneering’ OBN Survey Offshore
August 24, 2020 For illustration / Polarcus Adira – Credit: Thomas Reid/MarineTraffic Norwegian oil and…
Turkish Seismic Vessel to Extend Stay in Disputed
Frigates and corvettes of the Turkish Naval Forces escorting ORUC REİS seismic vessel while conducting…
Unions, Employers Agree Wage Deal,-Offshore-Renewables.com
Illustration – Credit: NickEyes/AdobeStock Norwegian workers reached a deal with employers on Friday over…
Kim Heng Shows Us How It’s Done…Again-Offshore-Renewables.com
Building a versatile OSV fleet is expensive, even more expensive when your timing is wrong. …
Wintershall Dea CEO Rejects U.S. Sanctions Bid on-Offshore-Renewables.com
Credit: Nord Stream 2 Wintershall Dea, one of five western partners in the Nord…
Tekmar Group Nets Middle East Orders-Offshore-Renewables.com
Tekmar Group has informed that its subsidiaries have won “multiple contracts” to supply subsea asset…
Heerema’s Heavy Lifter Installs Yaxche-C
Credit: Heerema Marine Contractors Credit: Heerema Marine Contractors Dutch offshore installation and construction…
Two Storms Head for US Gulf in Rare Hurricane-Offshore-Renewables.com
A pair of tropical cyclones forecast to become hurricanes early next week are headed for…
Offshore Evacuations Begin as Storms Take Aim at-Offshore-Renewables.com
File photo: Thunder Horse (Credit: BP) BP and Shell on Friday said they had…
Turkish Giant Offshore Gas Find
“Our Fatih drillship discovered 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves, thanks to the…
Three Firms in Dorado FPSO FEED Contract Race
Three FPSO specialists are competing for Santos’ Dorado FPSO front end engineering design contract, set…
Equinor, ConocoPhillips Get Consents for Swisher,
Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig – Credit: MarineTraffic Oil and gas companies Equinor and ConocoPhillips…
Exxon Limits Guyana Output Due to Gas Injection-Offshore-Renewables.com
Exxon Mobil Corp is limiting output at its flagship offshore project in Guyana to 100,000…
Converted FLNGs Have Smaller Carbon
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has said that converted FLNG vessels save approximately 33% of…
Shearwater in Its First Ever Seismic Survey-Offshore-Renewables.com
Image Credit: Shearwater Oslo-listed seismic surveyor Shearwater GeoServices has won its first-ever contract in…
Kongsberg Hybrid Power System for Island Offshore-Offshore-Renewables.com
Norwegian offshore support vessel owner Island Offshore has awarded a contract to Kongsberg Maritime to…
Total Resumes Angola Oil Drilling
© Gwenolé de Kermenguy / MarineTraffic.com France’s Total has restarted oil drilling in Angola…
Altera Names Samsung-built Shuttle Tanker Trio
Altera Wave – Credit: Altera Infrastructure Altera Infrastructure held a remote naming ceremony for…
Rosneft Restarts Kara Sea Drilling After Sanctions
For illustration; A drilling rig in the Kara Sea – Image by Arild/AdobeStock Russia’s largest…
Second Moray East Offshore Wind Farm Substation-Offshore-Renewables.com
Image Credit: Deme Offshore Offshore installation contactor DEME Offshore has installed the second offshore…
Sea-Kit’s Uncrewed Surface Vessel Ends 22-Day
Maxlimer, a 12-meter uncrewed surface vessel (USV) owned by SEA-KIT returned to Plymouth, England on…
Qatar Petroleum Farms Into Deepwater Block in
Qatar’s state-owned oil and gas company Qatar Petroleum has entered into a farm-in agreement for…
ABS Grants AiP for Crew Transfer Vessel for U.S.
BAR Technologies and Chartwell Marine have received Approval in Principle (AiP) from the American Bureau…
Caspian Drilling & Engineering Firm Wins More BP-Offshore-Renewables.com
Turan Drilling & Engineering, a Caspian region focused joint venture between KCA Deutag and SOCAR…
Maersk Integrator Jack-Up to Drill Another Well
Danish drilling company Maersk Drilling has won more work for its low-emission, harsh-environment jack-up drilling…
Deme Offshore Wins ‘Largest ever’ Offshore Wind
Belgium-based offshore installation services company Deme Offshore will deliver and install subsea cables for the…
Valaris Files for Bankruptcy
Valaris, the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor by fleet size, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday,…
Boskalis 1H Earnings, 2020 Goal Beat Forecasts
August 20, 2020 BOKA Constructor (Photo: Boskalis) Dutch marine services provider Boskalis said on Thursday…
Petrobras Taps TechnipFMC for Mero 2 Subsea EPCI-Offshore-Renewables.com
Brazilian oil company Petrobras has awarded oilfield services provider TechnipFMC a subsea engineering, procurement, construction…
Turkey Makes Significant Black Sea Gas Find-Offshore-Renewables.com
Turkey has found significant gas resources in the Black Sea, two Turkish sources said, a…
GC Rieber Shipping Sells Polar King IMR Vessel
Polar King – Image Credit: GC Rieber Shipping Oslo-listed offshore vessel owner GC Rieber…
No threats can Deter Turkey’s Exploration
Turkish Navy vessels escorting the Oruc Reis seismic vessel – Credit: Turkish Defense Ministry No…
Odfjell Drilling Rig Wins More Work with Equinor
Norwegian energy company Equinor has awarded Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Atlantic semi-submersible drilling rig more work…
Saipem’s Giant Construction Vessel Starts Work on
One of the world’s largest offshore construction vessels Saipem 7000 has arrived 15km off the…