Italian energy giant Eni has expanded its Asian portfolio with the addition of a new exploration license in the prolific Kutei Basin off the coast of Indonesia, Southeast Asia.
Japan’s exploration and production (E&P) company Inpex has moved to solidify its foothold in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off the northwest coast of Western Australia (WA), with its Australian subsidiaries taking steps to obtain an additional participating interest by exercising pre-emptive
Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras has shaken hands with Mozambique’s National Hydrocarbons Company (ENH) on a framework for bilateral cooperation across the oil and gas sector.
The Marinus Link electricity and telecommunications interconnector to be built in Australia has secured the country’s first offshore transmission license, representing the final Commonwealth approval leading into construction. Marinus Link, which will connect North West Tasmania and Victoria’s Latro
Brazilian deepwater offshore drilling contractor Ventura Offshore has secured more action time for its semi-submersible rig off the coast of Indonesia with subsidiaries of Searah, a joint venture between Italy’s Eni and Malaysia’s Petronas.
Karpowership, Türkiye’s floating power solutions provider and owner and operator of powerships, has finished its multi-vessel liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier-to-floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) conversion program with the completion of the seventh FSRU at a yard belonging to Singa
U.S.-headquartered technology player SLB has added more than 450 wells to its job list in one fell swoop by locking down a four-contract quadfecta with Saudi Arabia’s energy giant Aramco.
Egypt is putting its foot on the gas pedal in a bid to fast-track its Mediterranean energy hub ambitions by holding high-level talks with the U.S.-headquartered energy giant Chevron to secure an accelerated timeline to link its infrastructure to a gas field off the coast of Cyprus.
Van Oord has named its two new subsea rock installation vessels (SRIVs) Vindnes and Vestnes, in line with the names of other vessels in the company’s SRIV fleet. The SRIV duo, being constructed in China at the Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore shipyard, was designed by Norway’s Ulstein, will be equipped
Norway’s oil and gas player DNO has secured the thumbs-up from the country’s authorities for drilling activities in the North Sea with a semi-submersible rig managed by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor.
China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) has started the construction of the first of two Asso.subsea’s trenching support vessels (TSV), described as the most powerful TSV ever built. Asso.subsea reported on September 23 that the steel-cutting ceremony was held for the TSV Avra at the CMHI Shenzhen shi
Petronas LNG Ltd. (PLL), a subsidiary of Malaysia’s energy giant Petronas, has added a new vessel to its liquefied natural gas (LNG) fleet with the delivery of the newly built LNG carrier (LNGC), which was built at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding and is designed to bolster reliable global LNG deliverie
Dutch Fugro has secured additional survey contracts offshore Timor-Leste that will support the planning and development of critical offshore energy infrastructure associated with two gas developments. In addition to the geophysical contract announced in July, Fugro has secured two further awards fro
A consortium of Global OTEC, a UK-based pioneer in ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) development, and the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has been selected to study a site in the Bahamas for OTEC. This has been requested by the Government of the Bahamas to provide an evidence ba
