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  • First steel cut for North Sea-bound unmanned gas production platform – gallery

    2 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Aker BP has celebrated the start of the construction phase for a platform, which is destined to be deployed in the North Sea offshore Norway.

  • QatarEnergy dishes out $6 billion to boost production at Qatar’s largest oil field

    31 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    QatarEnergy has handed out four multi-billion-dollar engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract packages to multiple players in a bid to propel forward the next development phase of Qatar’s largest offshore oil field.

  • Hughes Subsea plays ‘pivotal role’ in topside and subsea work scopes for North Sea FPSO

    29 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Hughes Subsea has won a contract to provide daughter-craft diving services for an FPSO vessel operating in the North Sea.

  • Trendsetter delivers subsea equipment for Woodside in Gulf of Mexico

    26 October 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Texas-based oil and gas services company Trendsetter Engineering has completed the delivery of subsea equipment for Woodside Energy’s field in the Gulf of Mexico, recently brought on stream. Under the contract secured in 2021, the Houston-headquartered company delivered two subsea manifolds, two high integrity pressure protection systems (HIPPS), along with TCS clamp connectors to Woodside […]

  • Shell gets rubber stamp to deploy Odfjell Drilling-managed rig for ops in North Sea

    5 December 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Shell has received the green light to use an Odfjell Drilling-managed rig for plugging and abandonment activities in the North Sea.

  • Equinor gets clearance to use COSL Drilling’s rig at North Sea field

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

    Equinor its consent to use a COSL Drilling-owned semi-submersible rig for drilling activities at a field in the North Sea off Norway.

  • Shell takes Valaris jack-up rig for upcoming North Sea drilling ops

    5 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Shell has hired a heavy-duty jack-up rig from Valaris, an offshore drilling contractor, for a two-well drilling campaign in 2024.

  • Mariparks and multiuse to support sustainability efforts on North Sea

    2 February 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vision

    According to Erwin Coolen, Director of ECHT, we need Mariparks, which are offshore business areas, and multiuse to reach energy, food and nature transitions that are ongoing on the North Sea. Together with Nathalie Scheidegger, Project Leader Sustainable Blue Economy, Netherlands’ Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Coolen presented the Maripark concept at the […]

  • US oil & gas firm expanding its Gulf of Mexico footprint with $1.29 billion acquisition

    16 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Houston-based Talos Energy has set the wheels into motion to get its hands on QuarterNorth Energy, a privately-held U.S. Gulf of Mexico firm.

  • Greek firm to deliver steel pipes for Aker BP’s $1.5B North Sea development

    28 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Greek Corinth Pipeworks, the steel pipes segment of Cenergy Holdings, has secured a contract with TechnipFMC to deliver steel pipes for Aker BP’s development in the North Sea. Corinth Pipeworks will deliver 27 kilometers of high-frequency welded (HFW) steel pipes for the Utsira High Project development in the North Sea. The pipes will be manufactured […]

  • DOF to recycle Shell’s North Sea subsea infrastructure

    12 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    DOF Group has secured a subsea engineering procurement removal and disposal (EPRD) contract with Norske Shell, a subsidiary of the UK-headquartered energy giant Shell, in the Atlantic region. DOF will deliver an integrated solution of project management, engineering, design, analysis and survey for the Knarr and Gaupe fields in the North Sea. The scope includes […]

  • Interview: With new oil & gas horizons calling, will the North Sea hold sway over its existing rig fleet?

    16 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition

    This interview sheds more light on whether there will be a greater rig exodus from the North Sea market and a mass pivot toward other destinations.

  • Floating solar market will be as big as onshore solar sector, says Oceans of Energy CEO

    15 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vision

    The industry needs to start shifting its focus from wind farms to energy farms as we have limited space which we need to make use of in an efficient way. A synergy of offshore wind and floating solar is the way to go. “If you only fill 20% of wind farm space with floating solar, […]

  • Shearwater bags its fifth CCS survey in last two years

    12 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Norway’s Shearwater GeoServices is set to deliver a seismic survey for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the UK during the summer. Shearwater secured a contract for Spirit Energy’s recent carbon storage license award by the UK’s North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), located in the Morecambe Bay area. The six-week operation is scheduled […]

  • Netherlands starts construction of national hydrogen network

    31 October 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy

    The King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander has performed the official ceremony to start work on the construction of a national hydrogen network in the Netherlands. The ceremony took place on Friday, October 27, 2023, on the building site of Gasunie subsidiary Hynetwork Services in the port of Rotterdam, where the contractor Visser & Smit Hanab […]

  • After Belgium, Norway exploring options for hybrid interconnectors with two other countries

    16 November 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    Just shortly after the announcement that it was investigating the feasibility of a hybrid interconnector between Belgium and Norway, news came in that the Norwegian transmission system operator (TSO) Statnett is exploring options for interconnectors with Denmark and Germany. Danish TSO Energinet reported it was starting a collaboration with Statnett to investigate the technical feasibility […]

  • Eneco plans to build 800 MW green hydrogen plant in Europoort

    20 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy

    Dutch energy company Eneco has submitted a planning application for the construction of a green hydrogen production plant in Rotterdam’s Europoort industrial area. Eneco plans to develop the Eneco Electrolyzer plant which will use renewable energy from solar parks and wind farms to produce clean hydrogen that is initially aimed toward the industrial sector. The […]

  • Green North Energy’s new plants target Finland’s self-sufficiency in ammonia production

    27 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Green North Energy proposes to build green hydrogen and ammonia plants as part of BalticSeaH2 project in Finnish cities Pori and Kemi.

  • Shelf Drilling hands out North Sea job to Norwegian firm

    8 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has handed out a contract for waste management services in the North Sea to Soiltech.

  • New cable layer joins Boskalis fleet following major conversion

    23 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Dutch offshore services giant Boskalis has commissioned its new cable-laying vessel (CLV) BOKA Ocean following a major conversion program. Boskalis welcomed BOKA Ocean to its fleet in August 2023 as a pipe-laying vessel, which was then converted into a broadly deployable cable layer. After completing its sea trials in the North Sea, the vessel, formerly […]

  • Two new search and rescue choppers coming to work at Equinor’s North Sea assets

    25 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Equinor has handed a five-year contract for two new search and rescue helicopters (SAR), which will carry out operations on the NCS.

  • Smyril Line orders two e-methanol-ready RoRo ships in China

    8 February 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Faroese shipping company Smyril Line has signed a contract with China’s shipbuilder CIMC Raffles for the construction of two environmentally friendly roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) ships.

  • Two Diamond Offshore floaters find more work in Gulf of Mexico and North Sea

    8 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Diamond Offshore has secured a new job in the UK sector of the North Sea and a contract extension in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

  • Noble rig clinches South American drilling gig with Petrobras

    25 December 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Noble Corporation has added more work to the backlog of one of its semi-submersible rigs offshore Colombia, South America.

  • BP brings online another section of its largest gas discovery ever made

    27 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    BP has tucked a new milestone under its belt at a giant gas development off the coast of Azerbaijan by putting East North flank into production mode.