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  • Wales backs Morlais tidal energy project with almost $10M

    4 February 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Vision

    The Welsh Government has invested £8 million (around $9,9 million) as an equity stake in the Morlais tidal energy project, set to be the largest tidal scheme in Europe, to support its expansion and strengthen grid connections. Menter Môn, the social enterprise behind Morlais, is developing the site off the coast of Anglesey, with operations […]

  • Pollution ‘no cause for concern’ after oil tanker-cargo ship North Sea allision, UK says

    17 March 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    Following a collision between a U.S.-flagged oil/product tanker and a Portuguese container ship in the North Sea, the UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency has maintained that it does not foresee a damaging pollution effect from the tanker.

  • OEUK pushes for UK carbon capture funding amid budget concerns

    14 February 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Vision

    Britain’s trade body for the offshore energy industry Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has urged the UK government to stay committed to supporting additional carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS) projects as concerns mount over potential funding cuts in the upcoming comprehensive spending review (CSR). The industry body is pressing the government to honor its pledge […]

  • Additional $4 million funding boosts shore power at Port of Hueneme

    23 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    California’s Port of Hueneme has received an additional $4 million in funding to complete its shore power project on North Terminal, aiming to reduce vessel emissions and improve air quality.

  • Go-ahead for Aker BP’s North Sea drilling ops with Odfjell rig

    26 May 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Norwegian oil and gas player Aker BP has secured the all-clear from the country’s authorities to use one of Odfjell Drilling’s semi-submersible rigs for drilling operations in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.

  • Fugro, TGS to carry out detailed surveys for Norway’s first commercial offshore wind farm

    10 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects

    Fugro and TGS have been awarded contracts for detailed site investigations at the Sørlige Nordsjø II (Southern North Sea II) site, where Norway’s first commercial offshore wind farm will be built by a consortium consisting of Parkwind and Ingka Investments. Fugro, which already performed surveys at the Sørlige Nordsjø II offshore wind site for the […]

  • BP boosts gas production from Mediterranean Sea as it fires up next chapter of giant project

    17 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    BP has brought online the second development phase of a field at the West Nile Delta (WND) concession in the Mediterranean within the Egyptian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

  • Vår Energi starts the year strong, setting course for ‘transformational growth’ in 2025

    23 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    Norway’s oil and gas player Vår Energi has published the interim report for the first quarter of 2025, disclosing what it says are strong results in line with expectations.

  • UK player staying on duty at giant oil field offshore Qatar for five more years

    20 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    EnerMech has landed a multi-year contract extension with North Oil Company (NOC), a joint venture between QatarEnergy (70%) and TotalEnergies (30%), for work at an oil asset, which is said to be the largest field off the coast of Qatar.

  • First CO2 injection offshore UK starts paving the way for permanent storage

    12 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    Perenco UK and Carbon Catalyst Limited have kicked off the UK’s first-ever CO2 injection test, carried out at a carbon capture and storage (CCS) license in the North Sea that encompasses what is seen as the UK’s largest depleted gas field. As part of Project Poseidon, the test includes CO2 being injected into the depleted Leman natural […]

  • South Korea and US plan green shipping corridor by 2027

    5 May 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vessels

    A green shipping corridor across the Pacific Ocean linking the United States and South Korea is set to be established by 2027, the latter country’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) has unveiled. According to MOF, the “South Korea-US Green Shipping Corridor Construction Implementation Roadmap”, as unveiled at the very end of April this year, […]

  • Rekindled Shell-BP merger rumor mill going wild: Wishful thinking or real possibility?

    21 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Speculation is running rampant over a potential business combination between two oil majors, with the energy industry abuzz over the alleged merger between the UK-headquartered Shell and BP and the implications such a mega consolidation move could have on the global scene.

  • Flying colors as UK’s first CO2 injection test crosses finish line

    9 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Collaboration, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Storage, Transition, Vision

    A joint venture of Perenco UK, Carbon Catalyst and Harbour Energy has concluded the UK’s first-ever CO2 injection test, carried out at a carbon capture and storage (CCS) license in the North Sea that encompasses what is deemed the UK’s largest depleted gas field. The test started in February and included CO2 being injected into the depleted […]

  • BP books Noble rig for carbon storage gig in North Sea

    29 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Project & Tenders

    Noble Corporation has landed a new multi-well drilling assignment in the North Sea with BP, the UK-headquartered energy giant.  

  • UK’s fifth subsea electricity superhighway in the making?

    16 April 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    Offshore marine survey operations are scheduled to begin soon at what would be the UK’s fifth subsea electricity superhighway, connecting Scotland and England. Ireland-based XOCEAN is in charge of carrying out the marine survey works for the Eastern Green Link 5 (EGL5) project using seven remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and two support vessels. The marine geophysical […]

  • Mitsui invests in US e-fuels provider Infinium

    17 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Japanese major Mitsui & Co. has invested in Infinium Holdings, a U.S.-based provider of gas conversion solutions and developer of e-fuels technology and projects.

  • Danos wins work on US Gulf deepwater project targeting first oil later this summer

    1 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Danos Operations Services, a subsidiary of U.S.-based energy services provider Danos, has won a contract with Texas-based exploration and production player Beacon Offshore Energy to provide production services for a floating production system (FPS) facility situated in the deepwater Gulf of America.

  • Fresh Barents Sea oil find offers tie-in opportunity for Equinor

    30 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has made an oil discovery in the proximity of a field it operates in the Barents Sea using a rig owned by Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor Transocean.

  • New rig job lands on Seatrium’s table

    20 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Seatrium has emerged as the winner in an international tender from International Maritime Industries (IMI), said to be the largest shipyard in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, for the supply of equipment and license for jack-up rig destined to work in the Middle East.

  • UK’s new guidance sheds light on North Sea oil & gas game as application window opens

    19 June 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    In the wake of a Supreme Court ruling, marking the first inclusion in Britain’s history of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the combustion of oil and gas in environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for hydrocarbon extraction projects, the United Kingdom (UK) set out to create a new environmental guidance, which has now been revealed.

  • Delay-induced clouds over UK’s oil & gas decom realm warn of billions in extra costs and fines

    10 July 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Regulation & Policy

    With the backlog of wells due for decommissioning on the rise, the UK’s regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), has issued a stark warning to operators on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), urging them to take steps to decommission permanently inactive wells now to stave off a future scenario where they, alongside taxpayers, will need to face cost hikes and potential sanctions because of the missed decommissioning deadlines.

  • Digital twin tech helping BP optimize offshore operations across three continents

    30 January 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, IT & Software

    UK-headquartered energy giant BP has signed a new contract with digital twin software provider Aize enabling the latter to provide visualization services for various offshore assets operated by the UK firm.

  • Fugro wins survey contracts for RWE, TotalEnergies’ German offshore wind projects

    23 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Dutch Fugro has been awarded contracts to conduct geophysical and geotechnical site investigations for the development of TotalEnergies and RWE’s two large-scale offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. Windbostel Ost and Windbostel West, being developed by a joint venture between RWE and TotalEnergies, will have a combined generating capacity of 4 GW. Fugro’s […]

  • €41M win for NextGeo on UK’s subsea green electricity superhighways

    20 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vision

    Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group has awarded compatriot Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) with two contracts valued at approximately €41 million for work on the Eastern Green Links in the North Sea. The contracts have been awarded for detailed survey services set to provide critical data for the design and engineering of the Eastern Green Links (EGL) […]

  • $2 billion North Sea project unlocking new oil & gas barrels

    26 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Transition

    Equinor and its partners have unveiled plans to pour more than NOK 21 billion ($2.09 billion) in a new subsea development, combining several discoveries in the northern part of the North Sea that will export oil and gas via an existing platform located off the coast of Norway.