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  • Weather data: Forecasting for cost reductions

    9 August 2013

    Offshore wind farms are built in areas where it has been determined, by monitoring with met masts and floating met buoys, that there is enough of the turbine ‘fuel’ under normal circumstances. It is not just the remote location and water depth that determines that you will not find any offshore wind farms in the […]

  • In focus: Carbon capture and storage as key element in achieving decarbonisation

    14 May 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Storage, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    In this edition of In focus, we’ll be looking at ways through which the offshore energy sector is working to reduce carbon emissions.

  • USA: MIT Researchers Develop ‘Controllable Adhesion System’ for Underwater Robots

    14 November 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This four-part series examines current MIT efforts to refine AUVs’ artificial intelligence, navigation, stability and tenacity. If an underwater robot is to open a valve or […]

  • Eni entrusts Well-Safe Solutions rig with more decommissioning work

    5 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Heavy lifting, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Aberdeen-based decommissioning services provider Well-Safe Solutions has received a further contract extension from Italy’s energy giant Eni to decommission selected subsea and platform wells across a portfolio of projects in the Dutch North Sea. Eni recently exercised another 90-day option for the Well-Safe Protector jack-up under a newly agreed contract amendment. The work will be carried out […]

  • CPRA Presents Louisiana Coastal Basins Report

    1 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    Louisiana’s coastal basins need help, the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) reported at the biennial State of the Coast Conference at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center yesterday. During a panel discussion led by CPRA Operations Chief Ignacio Harrouch, officials also said that much has been done in each of the basins, and […]

  • ‘Collaborate with non-obvious partners’ – Offshore energy industry talks innovation and speeding things up 

    30 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Transition

    The offshore wind industry, now the linchpin between several offshore energy industries, is calling for both innovation and accelerating deployment, while also making sure one does not impede the progress of the other.   In this article:   During the ‘Renewable energy: Innovate or accelerate?’ conference session at the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2023 (OEEC 2023), […]

  • VesselsValue: Good position vs bad position – Observations on the recent MODU market

    23 May 2017
    Exploration & Production

      By Charlie Hockless, Senior Offshore Analyst at VesselsValue Since 2014 we’ve seen a significant decline in the oil price from 115 USD/bbl to 28 USD/bbl, with a recovery to around 50 USD/bbl (today’s price 53.86 USD/bbl). The collapse of oil pricing, reduced spend on exploration and production and the increased efficiencies in the drilling industry […]

  • Interior Launches Leasing Process for Commercial Wind Energy Offshore RI and MA (USA)

    18 August 2011
    Authorities & Government

    As part of Interior’s “Smart from the Start” offshore wind energy initiative to spur rapid and responsible siting, leasing and construction of new wind projects, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich today announced the initial steps to develop commercial wind energy […]

  • Northern Lights, Yara seal binding CO2 transport and storage deal

    20 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Collaboration, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Norwegian-based ammonia player Yara International has signed a binding commercial agreement with Northern Lights, a CO2 transport and storage supplying JV created by energy majors Shell, Equinor, and TotalEnergies, which is expected to pave the way for the world’s first cross-border transportation and storage of CO2. The signing of the binding contract comes on the back of […]

  • Saipem rig gearing up to spud Aker BP’s wildcat pair

    26 December 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Aker BP has received the Norwegian authorities’ blessing to drill two exploration wells in the Norwegian Sea, off the coast of Norway, with a semi-submersible rig owned by Italy’s Saipem.

  • BW Offshore sells FPSO while pursuing redeployment opportunities

    10 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Norway’s FPSO operator BW Offshore has decided to sell one of its FPSOs, which it recently marked as a redeployment candidate.

  • Fresh oil & gas find emerges as latest contender for tie-back to North Sea platform

    27 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Vår Energi has made a new commercial oil and gas discovery in the North Sea, which contains estimated gross recoverable resources of 18-39 mmboe.

  • Damen completes ‘Rowan Viking’ a month ahead of schedule

    2 September 2014

    The Rowan Viking jack-up rig yesterday received clearance to operate on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Damen Shiprepair was responsible with helping the rig meet the stringent Norwegian standards. Dutch yard Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen, part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion was responsible for a major upgrade of the Rowan Viking, owned by the U.S.-based drilling contractor Rowan […]

  • Bibby Offshore: Successful Evacuation Drill

    9 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Aberdeen-based subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore is leading the way in saturation diving safety in the North Sea after recently carrying out fully successful evacuation trials. The trials involved mating a Self Propelled Hyperbaric Lifeboat (SPHL) from the company’s Diving Support Vessel (DSV), Bibby Sapphire, to a Portable Hyperbaric Reception Facility onshore. Saturation diving requires […]

  • Wintershall Dea wraps up drilling phase at Dvalin ahead of first gas

    12 August 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance

    Drilling has been completed on the Wintershall Dea’s Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea, propelling the project into the final development phase before first gas. Wintershall Dea said on Wednesday that, overcoming severe weather conditions at the beginning of the year and avoiding any impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it had completed the four-well campaign […]

  • Fugro Assists Technip in Alvheim IOR Project

    24 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Fugro is providing wave measurements to support construction operations at an improved oil recovery (IOR) project on the Norwegian continental shelf, around 225 kilometres west of Stavanger. The subsea infrastructure on the Alvheim field (operated by Det norske oljeselskap) is being extended by offshore construction expert Technip and involves four areas that are being tied-in […]

  • Hydrosphere UK Supplies West Cardinal JET 5000 Buoy to Wells Harbour

    23 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Wells Harbour will remain safe for Mariners with the latest installation of a West Cardinal JET 5000 buoy supplied by Hydrosphere UK Ltd.  The 2.4m diameter flat bottomed buoy has been deployed at the entrance to the outer harbour where boats can come into difficulty in low tide due to the sand bar. This highly […]

  • Searcher preps for 3D seismic reprocessing gig in Nova Scotia

    6 April 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Australia-based Searcher Seismic has announced a 3D seismic data reprocessing project offshore Nova Scotia in Canada.

  • Helix details first New Zealand decommissioning win

    22 November 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Helix Energy Solutions is set to carry out well abandonment, recovery of subsea trees and wellhead severance and recovery at the Tui oil field offshore New Zealand as part of the contract recently secured with New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE).

  • Spirit Energy hires Maersk rig for North Sea well

    13 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract from Spirit Energy for the jack-up rig Maersk Resolve to drill one development well in the UK North Sea.

  • Equinor: Rosebank FID Expected by May 2022

    5 June 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Equinor and its partners have confirmed a new timeline for the Rosebank project on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), with the final investment decision planned to be taken by May 2022.   The new timeline comes after the award of a three-year extension for the Rosebank licences by the UK Oil and Gas Authority. “Together with […]

  • Improving Energy Product Transportation Throughout the Corpus Christi Port

    10 April 2020
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has just released more info about their $97.9 million construction contract, awarded to Callan Marine earlier this week, to complete the second phase of the four phase Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project. The project increases the channel depth from -47 feet Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) to […]

  • BSEE Presents Revisions to Offshore Production Safety Rule

    29 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    In response to a Presidential Order to reduce undue burden on industry, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) completed a comprehensive review of the Production Safety Systems regulations. The proposed regulations will be published Friday in the Federal Register. The announcement describes the proposed revisions and invites public comment on the proposal. “I […]

  • Highlights of the Week

    20 August 2017

    Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (August 14 – August 20). BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) announced first gas from the Juniper development, the fifth of BP’s seven upstream major project start-ups planned for 2017. The project is expected to boost BPTT’s gas production […]

  • USA: SeeByte Confirms Delivery of SeeTrack Military to EdgeTech

    7 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software technology for unmanned systems, has announced that an order for fifteen software licences of SeeTrack Military has been confirmed through EdgeTech. The purchase comes in support of the Littoral Mine Countermeasure SONAR (LMCS) system from EdgeTech; LMCS is an advanced mine and underwater IED hunting system which […]