The aftship of NKT’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV) NKT Eleonora has arrived at another Vard shipyard in Romania to be connected to the foreship and superstructure. To remind, NKT Eleonora entered the water for the first time in mid-October following the launch of its aftship at VARD’s shipyard in Br
Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor has obtained the all-clear from the Norwegian authorities for drilling activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), which will be undertaken with a semi-submersible rig owned by COSL Drilling Europe, an offshore drilling contractor.
U.S.-headquartered energy technology giant Baker Hughes has more work to grind through at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in Texas, as it has been hired to provide the primary liquefaction equipment for another segment of this multibillion-dollar undertaking in the United States.
U.S.-headquartered oilfield services player Halliburton has landed a new assignment off the coast of Nigeria with Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo), a subsidiary of the UK-headquartered Shell, in collaboration with its joint venture partner, Sunlink Energies.
Florida-headquartered marine environmental consulting firm CSA Ocean Sciences (CSA) has performed an environmental baseline survey (EBS) off the coast of Mozambique for what it says is a major oil & gas company. CSA’s project scope included water column profiling, environmental sampling, seafloor im
Norway-based energy services provider Aker Solutions has won a multi-year brownfield services assignment with ExxonMobil Canada, a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered energy giant ExxonMobil.
Houston-based energy player Talos Energy is setting the stage to undertake appraisal activities in 2026 at its recent oil discovery in the Gulf of America (U.S. Gulf of Mexico), which was drilled with a drillship owned by Seadrill, an offshore drilling contractor.
French provider of tubular solutions Vallourec has secured the renewal of a multi-year contract with an undisclosed operator in the North Sea for the supply of oil country tubular good (OCTG) products, accessories, and integrated services. Vallourec said it was in charge of providing logistics, main
An oil and gas discovery in the North Sea, which is expected to reap the benefits of a decision by two Norwegian oil and gas players, Aker BP and DNO, to swap assets, is now poised to witness an acceleration of its development off the coast of Norway.
Thanks to a deal with Italy’s energy giant Eni and Argentina’s oil and gas firm YPF, XRG, a subsidiary of the UAE-headquartered Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), has taken a non-binding step to join a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Sierra Grande Norte, on the South American co
Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor is retaining Aker Solutions as its inspection services provider across more than 15 onshore and offshore facilities in Norway, thanks to a multi-year contract extension.
The China Merchants Heavy Industry shipyard has begun the construction of a DP 2 cable-laying vessel (CLV) ordered by Greece’s Asso.subsea for the offshore wind market. The steel-cutting ceremony for Althea was held today, November 5, at the CMHI shipyard on Mazhou Island, Shenzhen, China. “The firs
Suriname’s national oil company (NOC) Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname (Staatsolie), Malaysia’s energy titan Petronas, U.S.-based oil major Chevron, and Qatar’s state-owned oil & gas giant QatarEnergy have signed up for two blocks off the coast of Suriname that were secured as part of a consortium d
The UK National Grid is about to begin a marine survey of a damaged section of an interconnector between France and the UK that has been operating since 1986. The survey of the IFA 2000 submarine cable is scheduled to begin today, November 5, approximately 3 nautical miles offshore Folkestone, Kent,
