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  • Canada’s first LNG export facility set for commissioning activities

    8 March 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance

    Canada’s first LNG export facility, the Shell-led LNG Canada project in Kitimat, British Columbia, is nearing completion of the first phase, with commissioning and start-up activities about to begin. Construction work at the LNG Canada facility is almost complete and commissioning and start-up activities are set to begin, marking another milestone for the largest private investment […]

  • Wagenborg: Third EasyMax vessel reaches Delfzijl

    11 January 2024
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Dutch shipowner and operator Royal Wagenborg revealed that its third EasyMax-type multipurpose ship has salt water under the keel for the first time after being transported from Royal Niestern Sander shipyard to its home port of Delfzijl.

  • Saudi’s NEOM secures $2.7 billion for development of major projects

    30 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    NEOM has secured a new revolving credit facility (RCF), worth $2.7 billion, that will support short-term financing requirements as NEOM moves forward with the development of major projects.

  • NWEA: We need to standardize offshore wind industry to reach targets

    5 February 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Rules & Regulation, Vessels

    2023 was an exciting year for offshore wind, but there are still major challenges to tackle, said Jan Vos, Chairman of the board of the Netherlands Wind Energy Association (NWEA), at the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) 2023, proposing standardization in the industry. Vos affirmed that wind generation at sea is on time and […]

  • Woodside all set for ops at Australian gas project

    2 January 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Woodside has received a stamp of approval for an environment plan, covering seabed intervention and trunkline installation off Australia.

  • Italy’s Saipem gives out €300 million contract to compatriot company

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

    Italy’s Rosetti Marino has secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, said to be worth more than €300 million, with compatriot Saipem for work offshore Libya. Under the contract, Rosetti Marino is in charge of the construction of a gas recovery module (GRM) of approximately 5,000 tonnes which will be installed on the DP4 […]

  • Energean awaits 30-year production license ahead of sanctioning phased gas development offshore Israel

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

    Energean is looking forward to receiving a 30-year production license soon for an area where a string of gas discoveries was made in 2022.

  • Vitol and GAIL pen long-term LNG supply deal into India

    5 January 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Vitol Asia, a unit of a Switzerland-based energy and commodities company Vitol, and GAIL (India), the largest natural gas supplier under India’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, have signed a deal for the annual supply of approximately one million metric tons of LNG for a period of approximately 10 years, starting from 2026. Under […]

  • Island Drilling’s rig kicks off three-well program in African waters

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

    Trident Energy has embarked on a three-well infill drilling campaign on Block G offshore Equatorial Guinea.

  • Noble’s decarbonization trump card: Sustainable diesel slashing rig’s CO2 emissions during North Sea drilling ops

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

    Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation is determined to curb the carbon footprint from drilling operations.

  • RVO opens geotechnical investigation tender for Doordewind offshore wind zone

    11 April 2024
    Project & Tenders

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has launched a tender for geotechnical investigations at the Doordewind zone, one of the three new areas the Dutch Government designated in 2022 as part of the plan to add more offshore wind capacity. Valued at a total of more than €42 million, the contract will be awarded for offshore geotechnical investigations […]

  • ADNOC kicks off early EPC activities for low-carbon Ruwais LNG project

    13 March 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has issued a limited notice to proceed (LNTP) for early engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) activities for its low-carbon LNG project in Al Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi. The notice for early EPC activities was issued to a joint venture comprising Technip Energies, JGC Corporation, and National Petroleum Construction Company, […]

  • Green electricity from hydrogen to power Wintershall Dea’s transport vessel

    17 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Turneo GmBH, a joint venture between Hamburg-based Karlsson GmBH and energy service provider EWE, has begun producing green hydrogen in Cuxhaven, providing fuel for the first of four supply vessels in Wintershall Dea’s Mittelplate fleet. Under the project named H2Move, Turneo commissioned and started operating a 2 MW electrolysis plant on November 15 to supply […]

  • HD KSOE resumes winning streak with order for VLGC pair

    15 January 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Vessels

    In a remarkable start to the new year, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) has reaffirmed its industry dominance by securing an order for the construction of two Very Large Gas Carrier (VLGC) ships. The undisclosed shipping company based in the Middle East placed the order, valuing a KRW 310 billion ($235 […]

  • 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 […]

  • ConocoPhillips puts plans into play to undertake multiple seabed surveys and offshore drilling ops

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

    ConocoPhillips has submitted an environment plan for several seabed surveys and a multi-well exploration drilling program off the coast of Australia.

  • Shell becomes sole owner of Gulf of Mexico field

    14 December 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Shell has gotten its hands on the remaining stake in a deepwater field in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, which has been developed as a subsea tie-back to the nearby Ursa production hub.

  • With oil spill all sorted out, Aker BP’s North Sea field back online after unplanned downtime

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

    Aker BP has restored production at a field located in the central part of the North Sea, close to the British sector. 

  • Shelf Drilling jack-up rig’s stay in Norwegian waters prolonged

    12 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Shelf Drilling has secured a contract extension for one of its jack-up rigs with Equinor for operations at a field off the coast of Norway.

  • TotalEnergies’ giant natural gas field in North Sea on track to come online this spring

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

    TotalEnergies is getting ready to bring on stream the Tyra II redevelopment project in the Danish sector of the North Sea in March 2024.

  • Noble taps Blue Water to support its rig ops in Suriname

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

    Blue Water Shipping has been hired on a logistics contract in Suriname by Noble Corporation, an offshore drilling giant.  

  • World’s largest interconnector begins operating

    3 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    The Viking Link electricity interconnector between the UK and Denmark has commenced operations, now transporting power between the two countries. Deemed the world’s longest land and subsea interconnector, the £1.7 billion Viking Link started commercial operations on December 29, 2023.  The link has a capacity of 1.4 GW and stretches for 475 miles under land and sea […]

  • Reach Subsea ‘very optimistic for years ahead’ as it reports record 2023 numbers

    14 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Reach Subsea has reported record-high numbers for the fourth quarter of 2023 and the whole year, with all parameters driven by growth, improved pricing, and strong project execution. Reach Subsea’s revenue for Q4 2023 grew by 45% to NOK 474 million ($44.5 million), whereas EBIT grew by 130% to NOK 79.5 million ($7.4 million). Revenue […]

  • Hy24’s Clean Hydrogen Equipment Fund wins Dutch bank’s support

    11 December 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy

    Dutch bank ABN AMRO is investing in the Clean Hydrogen Equipment Fund, managed by Hy24, a clean hydrogen investment fund committed to scaling up the global hydrogen economy. This is said to be the second climate-related fund investment taken on by ABN AMRO Corporate Investments and fits with the bank’s climate strategy announced at the […]

  • Fresh oil, gas, and drilling plays shape global energy ecosystem

    12 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    This is an overview of some of the moves made over the week, so come away with us on a journey of the fossil energy market’s latest developments.