Business Developments & Projects
Norwegian oil & gas firm gets the go-ahead to spud North Sea prospect
DNO has received consent from Norway’s regulator for exploration drilling in the North Sea, using one of the Odfjell Drilling-managed rigs.
Greek firm unveils its ‘most advanced’ jet-trenching vehicle
Greece-based Asso.subsea has developed what is said to be the company’s most advanced jetting remotely operated vehicle (ROV) for post-lay burial operations. The AssoJet III Mk2 is a newly built jetting vehicle for cohesionless soil, based on full in-house design. Equipped with over 1.5 MW of availa
DNO ready to deploy well intervention vessel at North Sea field
DNO has received consent from Norway’s regulator to use one of Island Offshore’s mobile offshore units (MOU) for work on a field.
Canada ranked as preferred global oil supplier with fossil fuels carving a place in energy transition, shows Ipsos study
Ipsos has asked respondents in 28 countries around the world to complete a ranked ballot of eight oil-producing nations.
Stolt Tankers to apply graphene-based propeller coatings to 25 ships
Norwegian chemical tanker company Stolt Tankers, a subsidiary of Stolt-Nielsen, has signed a two-year agreement with Canada-based Graphite Innovations & Technology (GIT). Under the deal Stol Tankers will apply GIT’s XGIT-PROP graphene-based marine coating to the propellers of 25 ships during 2023. G
BlueFloat, Renantis award surveys contract for floating wind sites offshore Scotland
Acteon Geo-services brands, TerraSond and Benthic, have been awarded a combined geophysical and geotechnical survey by the BlueFloat Energy and Renantis partnership for its Bellrock and Broadshore offshore wind farms, located northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland. The geophysical scope will involve using
CRP Subsea wins contract for Middle East submarine HVDC project
England-based CRP Subsea, part of AIS, has secured a contract to deliver cable protection services for an HVDC submarine cable project offshore United Arab Emirates in the Arabian Gulf. More than 6 kilometers of Uraduct will be used at the cable crossings and platform approaches on the HVDC system,
BASF installs floating solar unit at its US production facility
World’s largest chemical producer BASF has installed a floating solar system, designed and constructed by Noria Energy, at its manufacturing site in the United States.
First temporary CO2 storage tank placed for Northern Lights CCS project
Northern Lights, a joint venture (JV) of energy majors Shell, Equinor and TotalEnergies developing an open and flexible infrastructure to safely store CO2 from industries across Europe, is making progress with the installation of the first temporary CO2 storage tank. This milestone was announced on
Seabed surveys start for 2 GW ScotWind offshore wind projects
Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) has launched seabed surveys for its 1 GW Ayre floating offshore wind farm and the 1 GW Bowdun offshore wind farm in Scotland. G-tec is leading the first phase of the work, which is the geophysical surveying of the seabed at both sites, in leasing zones NE2 and E3, from Ma
Halliburton backs Repsol with well construction suite
Spanish oil company Repsol has implemented a well construction solution from Halliburton in order to automate and streamline its well design process. According to Halliburton, the Landmark DecisionSpace 365 Well Construction Suite and Digital Well Program will help Repsol standardize its well design
Aker BP gearing up to spin the drill bit off Norway
Aker BP has secured a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea.
New partnership Terranova NV to boost green hydrogen production in Belgium
Partnership Terranova Hydrogen NV, comprised of Jan De Nul Group, DEME Group, and Aertssen Group, has joined forces with Luminus and Nippon Gases to build and exploit an installation for the production of green hydrogen on the ‘Zonneberg’ in Zelzate, Belgium. The partnership announced they want to w
Neptune developing digital twins for two more North Sea platforms
Eserv will boost Neptune’s portfolio of digitised assets to 14 by creating digital twins of two offshore platforms in the Dutch North Sea.