Subsea 7, in collaboration with OneSea Energy, has secured £150,000 (around $187,000) in funding from the Scottish government to investigate pairing a large-scale floating hydrogen production system with a floating wind farm offshore Scotland. The funding was awarded as part of the Hydrogen Innovati
QatarEnergy’s LNG trading arm, QatarEnergy Trading, has inked a long-term LNG sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation (Petrobangla). The 15-year agreement will see QatarEnergy supply about 1.8 million tons per annum (mtpa) of LNG to Bangladesh, starting in
The partners behind the Aphrodite Reservoir in Cyprus have submitted an updated plan for the development of the project to the country’s government, said to include a change to the fundamental project concept of the approved development and production plan. Chevron Cyprus, BG Cyprus, part of Shell,
Ulrik Uhrenfeldt Andersen, the CEO of Golden Ocean Group, revealed his decision to step down from the position after leading the company through a period of immense growth and environmental transformation. GOGL’s board has appointed Lars-Christian Svensen, Golden Ocean’s Chief Commercial Officer, to
Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group is set to invest around €120 million in its plant in Pikkala, Finland, in order to further increase the production capacity of 525 kV HVDC submarine cable systems. New vertical continuous vulcanization (VCV) lines at the Finnish plant are expected to more than do
Norwegian tanker shipping heavyweight Frontline has secured a sustainability-linked loan, totaling up to $129.4 million. The financing was obtained through a senior secured term loan facility with Dutch banking group ING, which according to Frontline, offers attractive terms and is intended to refin
The Selkie project, a €5.2 million EU-backed cross-border project focused on boosting the marine energy industry in Wales and Ireland, has been concluded following four years of operation. Selkie is a consortium of University College Cork (UCC) and Swansea University (SU) and GDG, DP Energy Ireland,
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Eidesvik Offshore has entered into agreements with two separate parties for the sale of its three seismic vessels. In a statement issued on 1 June, Eidesvik reported that it was selling the seismic vessels Veritas Viking, Vantage and Viking Vision to two separate buye
Four oil and gas players have signed a production sharing contract (PSC) for an exploration block located offshore Brazil.
Eni has handed out another short-term contract extension to BW Offshore for an FPSO, working on a field located offshore Nigeria.
Green energy developer Aker Horizons ASA has announced that Aker Horizons Asset Development, its wholly-owned asset development arm dedicated to hydrogen projects, has been awarded up to NOK 135 million ($12.2 million) in grants and loans from Innovation Norway for the green hydrogen production faci
Canada-based oil and gas company Valeura Energy has extended two contracts related to an oil field offshore Thailand.
Chinese oil and gas company CNOOC Limited has commissioned what is said to be China’s first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project. The CCS project, officially commissioned on 1 June, is an auxiliary part of the Enping 15-1 oilfield development and can store more than 1.5 mi
Equinor has completed the drilling of an exploration well near the Troll field in the Norwegian North Sea but failed to find hydrocarbons.
