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  • Multi-billion investment on the horizon, as UK greenlights giant Rosebank oil field

    27 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    The North Sea Transition Authority has now given its blessing for the development of the controversial Rosebank field on the UKCS.

  • Princess Royal unveils £420 million Aberdeen Port expansion

    25 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Transition

    The Port of Aberdeen, the UK’s oldest business, now boasts the country’s newest harbor, signaling a vibrant future for energy, trade, and tourism in Scotland’s journey towards net zero emissions. Namely, the port’s £420 million (USD 514 million) expansion project was officially inaugurated on Friday, September 22. The expansion of the Aberdeen South Harbour has […]

  • In focus: Is natural gas crucial element of energy transition?

    6 October 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    With the world adapting to emerging sources of supply and decarbonization technologies, the discussion about which fuel is the top contender for the successful energy transition continues. Despite the growing opposition to fossil fuels, some consider natural gas, primarily LNG, as the leading transition fuel, which will bridge the gap and pave the way towards […]

  • First oil flows from Gulf of Mexico project ahead of schedule

    13 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Woodside has brought on stream a deepwater oil project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico ahead of the targeted first oil in 2024.

  • BW Offshore wraps up much-anticipated sale of Nigerian FPSO

    18 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    BW Offshore has completed the sale of another floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is working at an oil field offshore Nigeria.

  • Ports of Rotterdam and Duisburg join forces on hydrogen

    18 September 2023
    Ports & Logistics

    Inland port duisport and the port of Rotterdam have revealed the next step in their partnership towards the development of European hydrogen chains with a new feasibility study.

  • Aquaterra Energy: What are the key challenges and opportunities facing the global hydrogen sector today? 

    6 October 2023
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    This is a guest article by Anne Haase, Renewables Director at Aquaterra Energy.  Europe is currently driving plans forward to significantly decarbonise industry and accelerate its journey to a low carbon economy. Hydrogen is core to that decarbonisation strategy, with infrastructure projects being developed conceptually to support transmission and distribution across Europe, the UK and wider. […]

  • Interview: To help boost confidence and give clear direction for tidal energy, UK government should set 1GW target for 2035

    25 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Jeremy Smith, CEO of QED Naval and its Welsh subsidiary Mor Energy, talked with Offshore Energy about the funding it received in the latest UK government’s contracts for difference auction, the Subhub tidal energy technology, the issues the sector is facing in the UK and what can be done to accelerate its route to commercial maturity.

  • BP cheers stamp of approval for oil & gas project in North Sea

    14 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    BP has received the green light from Britain’s government to proceed with its proposed development of an oil and gas field in the UK sector of the North Sea.

  • TotalEnergies evaluating flow test results for potential commercial oil development off Namibia

    28 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    TotalEnergies has made progress with its multi-well appraisal and exploration drilling program in Namibia, which is being carried out with two rigs.

  • Another North Sea project hit by cost inflation as capex estimate goes up

    19 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Vår Energi has updated its cost estimate for a field life extension project in the North Sea off Norway to reflect a tighter supplier market.

  • Johan Castberg FPSO still on track for first oil next year but cost estimate jumps to $7.4 billion

    19 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Equinor has revised the cost estimate for its Johan Castberg project in the Barents Sea due to the rise in cost within the industry.

  • Equinor hands over development plan for multi-million gas tie-back in North Sea

    15 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Equinor has submitted a plan for the development and operation (PDO) for a gas discovery in the North Sea.

  • Enova pumps $65.6 million into zero-emission ship and tech projects

    26 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology, Vessels

    Enova, a Norwegian government enterprise, has decided to invest NOK 709 million ($65.6 million) to provide financcial support for zero-emission ship and technology projects.

  • Court order pushes US to expand Gulf of Mexico oil & gas lease sale with previously removed blocks

    25 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    BOEM is taking steps to comply with a court order regarding the incoming offshore oil and gas lease sale for acreage in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Southern North Sea II and Utsira Nord 2023 seabed surveys completed offshore Norway

    8 September 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The seabed surveys have been completed for this year in the areas of Sørlige Nordsjø II (Southern North Sea II) and Utsira Nord offshore Norway. Over the past two years, seabed surveys have been carried out in the open areas of Southern North Sea II and Utsira Nord. The Utsira Nord surveys began in summer but due to technical […]

  • Are natural gas and renewables keys to unlocking a low-emission energy future in the US?

    29 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition

    America is in need of an all-inclusive energy strategy, which features natural gas as a crucial element along with renewable energy, to come to grips with climate and energy challenges.

  • New offshore drilling gigs for two COSL rigs bringing $369 million

    31 August 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Equinor has hired two semi-submersible rigs from COSL Offshore Management for drilling operations on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).

  • US five-year offshore oil & gas leasing plan puts Biden between the devil and the deep blue sea

    2 October 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Biden administration is stuck between a rock and a hard place while trying to reconcile its climate agenda and offshore wind ambitions with the IRA’s giveaways to the fossil fuels lobby.

  • Gears in motion for Aker BP to spud North Sea prospects with Odfjell rig

    7 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Aker BP has received consent from Norway’s offshore safety regulator for exploration drilling in the North Sea, using Odfjell Drilling’s rig.

  • Elogen and Valmax pen new electrolyzer supply deal

    13 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    Elogen, a GTT group company, has signed a new contract with Valmax Technology, a system integrator for energy solutions in the hydrogen sector, to design and manufacture a proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer with a power of 2.5 MW. The electrolyzer, with a production capacity of up to 1 ton of hydrogen per day, will […]

  • Eleven arrested after activists expressed their ire over arrival of TotalEnergies’ FSRU in France

    20 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels

    After a FSRU, chartered by TotalEnergies, arrived in France, climate activists took steps to express their dissatisfaction with its arrival.

  • Norway wants to see oil & gas and renewables ‘thriving’ side-by-side

    12 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has underlined the importance of the coexistence of multiple energy industries on the NCS.

  • ProSep gets work on Aker BP’s new North Sea platform

    13 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    ProSep has secured a contract for produced water treatment on Aker BP’s new central processing and wellhead platform (PWP) in the North Sea off Norway.

  • 21 carbon storage licenses awarded in UK’s landmark licensing round

    15 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Storage, Transition, Vision

    A total of 14 companies have been awarded 21 licenses in the UK’s first-ever carbon storage licensing round – said to have the potential to store almost 10% of UK greenhouse gas emissions. The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) announced on 15 September that 14 companies had accepted licenses in depleted oil & gas reservoirs […]