Minesto, a Swedish tidal energy developer, is leading a consortium of four that has been awarded a SEK 25 million (approximately $2.6 million) grant funding from the Swedish Energy Agency to build a complete microgrid installation in the Faroe Islands. The consortium includes Minesto, microgrid tech
With a six-week exclusive due diligence period in effect, Australia’s energy player Santos has kicked off negotiations concerning an $18.7 billion non-binding indicative offer for all its shares with a consortium led by XRG, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), comprising Abu Dhab
A construction support vessel (CSV) owned by Norway’s shipping player Rem Offshore has begun working for Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor following an extensive rebuild and mobilization project. In pursuit of more sustainable operations, efficiency enhancements, and cost savings, Rem Offsh
Shell has brought online a new phase of its natural gas field in the Norwegian Sea, which is set to augment the amount of gas recovered from the asset, bolstering Europe’s energy security.
Imabari Shipbuilding, considered to be one of the biggest shipbuilding players in Japan, has entered an agreement with compatriot JFE Steel Corporation and IHI Corporation to acquire a portion of the shares of Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU) previously owned by JFE and IHI. As disclosed, once
TotalEnergies has taken a step to enlarge its oil and gas portfolio of assets off the coast of Suriname with the acquisition of a minority stake in another block, which is close to the one where the French player is developing its oil project.
The UK Government has decided to reject the huge £25 billion (around €29.5 billion) project that would import 11.5 GW of solar and wind power from Morocco to the British grid via 4,000-kilometer HVDC subsea cables. The Xlinks Morocco-UK power project envisions the development of a commercial-scale r
Yinson Production is only days away from securing a $1.17 billion bond issue for a floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit, which is deployed at an oil field in the pre-salt Campos Basin off the coast of Brazil.
As media speculation over a potential merger between two European oil majors, the UK-headquartered Shell and BP, has not died down yet, the former decided to address the rumors by denying the alleged business combination talks and move.
Equinor has finished drilling a wildcat well in the North Sea with one of Odfjell Drilling’s semi-submersible rigs. The drilling activities did not result in a new oil and gas find off the coast of Norway.
Equinor and its partners have unveiled plans to pour more than NOK 21 billion ($2.09 billion) in a new subsea development, combining several discoveries in the northern part of the North Sea that will export oil and gas via an existing platform located off the coast of Norway.
Australia’s wave energy developer Carnegie Clean Energy has secured AUD 335,020 (approximately $218,000) in funding from the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (Blue Economy CRC) to advance preliminary design work for the first MoorPower commercial pilot wave energy system. The project will ad
A couple of months after securing a contract for an oil project off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Dutch geo-data specialist Fugro has been appointed to support a deepwater gas project in the Eastern Mediterranean. Italy’s energy company Eni has awarded Fugro with a contract to perform a co
Equinor has secured a drilling permit for an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, which will be drilled using a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean, an offshore drilling contractor.
