Saipem’s jack-up rig Perro Negro 7 is set to resume operations in Saudi Arabia this month, after the contract it had secured in 2011 was temporarily suspended in 2024. Saipem won the contract for Perro Negro 7 in 2011 and secured an extension in June 2023 for ten years. The contract was temporarily
France’s TotalEnergies, Italian Eni, and QatarEnergy have signed an agreement with the Lebanese government to enter an exploration permit offshore Lebanon. The consortium’s initial work program on Block 8 consists of the acquisition of a 1,200 km2 3D seismic survey, in order to further assess the ar
Japanese submarine cable installation specialist SEKIKAIJI Industry has purchased a trencher and advanced cable tracker technology from the UK’s subsea technology and services provider SMD, which will be used for the offshore wind market in Japan. The contract includes SMD’s high-power jet trencher
North Sea oil & gas operator and producer Ithaca Energy has exercised the option for Prosafe’s flotel to stay all three remaining weeks at the Captain field in the UK sector of the North Sea. Safe Caledonia’s contract was supposed to keep the vessel at the Captain field until early February 2026, af
National Grid Ventures (NGV) has published updated proposals for the LionLink interconnector, which will connect the future Nederwiek 3 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands to the UK and Dutch grids. NGV, responsible for building and operating the UK side of LionLink, has now opened an eight-week p
Bermuda-based bulk carrier company Himalaya Shipping has secured a new time charter agreement for its LNG dual-fuel 210,000 dwt Newcastlemax vessel, delivered in 2023. The vessel Mount Ita was delivered to Himalaya Shipping from China’s New Times Shipbuilding (NTS) in March 2023 as the second in a s
Equinor has handed out multiple framework agreements to seven Norwegian supplier companies, including Aibel, Aker Solutions, Wood, Rosenberg Worley, Head Energy, Apply, and IKM Gruppen with a total value of around NOK 100 billion (approximately $9.9 billion).
UAE-headquartered marine and offshore services provider Drydocks World Dubai, a part of DP World, has augmented its liquefied natural gas (LNG) conversion portfolio with a new refurbishment task that will allow it to give an LNG carrier a new lease on life as a floating storage unit (FSU).
The UAE’s energy heavyweight Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has put the pen to paper for its ambition to boost its natural gas arsenal by propelling a gas project off the coast of Abu Dhabi, UEA, into execution phase with a final investment decision (FID).
Glenfarne Alaska LNG, a subsidiary of Glenfarne Group, has set the wheels in motion to secure a new deal for its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export development in Alaska by signing a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) with Donlin Gold, the developer of a mine with the same name owned by NOVAGOLD RES
ABB has secured contracts with Rotterdam Shore Power (RSP), a joint venture of Port of Rotterdam and Eneco, to engineer and construct shore power systems comprising multiple installations for the Port of Rotterdam. Based on the total capacity of over 100 megavolt-amperes (MVA), the combined shore po
As the global oil and gas industry continues to seek more hydrocarbons to replace depleting reserves, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD), reporting to Norway’s Ministry of Energy, has highlighted the country’s exploration results in 2025 as being among the best in several years.
Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras has prolonged a contract of an anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel, owned by Solstad Offshore, a Norwegian shipping company.
Norwegian energy services provider Aker Solutions is set to make workforce and capacity cuts as a response to an anticipated decrease in activity levels this year. After several years of record-high workload, Aker Solutions announced yesterday, January 7, that it expects activity levels to decrease
