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
U.S.-headquartered energy services provider Expro has won a multimillion-dollar deal to provide integrated well services for a major life-extension campaign off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
France’s energy giant TotalEnergies and its Nigerian local partner AMNI have decided to move forward with the development of a gas field off the African country’s coast, as a low-emission project set to supply roughly one-third of the feedstock required for the nation’s next liquefied natural gas (L
Nexans has started the installation of the underground land cable for an electricity interconnector that will connect the Orkney Islands to the UK mainland for the first time. Orkney Link, developed by SSEN Transmission, will comprise a new substation being built at Finstown, approximately 14 kilome
In a bid to strike a balance between maximizing asset longevity and curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Perenco Brasil, a subsidiary of Anglo-French oil and gas player Perenco, is joining forces with Porto do Açu to bring shore power directly to its offshore fields in the Campos Basin off the co
Netherlands-headquartered Subsea Cable Assets (SCA) has won its first contract with Saipem for cable transportation and transpooling services in the Caspian region, valued at approximately $20 million. Under the contract secured with Saipem Contracting Netherlands BV, SCA will provide engineering, s
Energy and marine consultancy ABL, part of Oslo-listed global consultancy group Aqualis, has been hired by Switzerland-based offshore contractor Allseas to support the lifting of a massive 60,000-ton topside in a single motion as part of a North Sea decommissioning project on the Norwegian Continent
Rotterdam-based CSL OWL Subsea Rock Installation (CSL OWL SRI), a partnership between The CSL Group and Offshore Wind Logistics (OWL), has launched its first of two subsea rock installation (SRI) vessels. The company announced in November 2024 that it had placed an order for the construction of two
