Due to a forecast storm event, Helix Energy Solutions’ semi-submersible vessel Q7000 has departed earlier than planned from Port Taranaki in New Zealand towards the Tui field where it will perform decommissioning work. Q7000 will plug and abandon the wells across the Tui field as part of Phase 3 of
Artificial Intelligence and the advent of automated ships will pose difficult questions in determining liability under the Hague Rules for maritime casualties, the 2022-2023 chairman of the Association of Average Adjusters, Sir Nigel Teare, cautions. Sir Nigel drew attention to a recent case involvi
Saudi state-owned oil and gas giant Aramco has appointed presidents of its upstream and downstream businesses to support the company’s growth plans. Aramco has appointed Nasir K. Al-Naimi as President of its Upstream business and Mohammed Y. Al Qahtani as President of its Downstream business, both r
The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has offered 12 companies awards for 20 carbon storage licenses in the UK’s first-ever CO2 storage licensing round. The NSTA launched the UK’s first-ever carbon storage licensing round in June 2022, with applications closing in September. The 20 licenses in t
Marine fuel supplier Peninsula has confirmed the renewal of its syndicated European credit facility, reporting an increase from $350 million to $450 million. The supplier said that, together with the group’s Asian syndicated facility and other bilateral lines, the increase in the European credit fac
Italian oilfield services provider Saipem has secured two new offshore contracts with an overall value of approximately $850 million. Saipem has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by Turkish Petroleum OTC for the second phase of the Sakarya FEED a
bound4blue, a developer of wind-assisted propulsion technology, and Oceanking, a Greece-based provider of marine technology solutions, have formed a partnership to jointly expand access to the eSAIL technology in Greece and Cyprus. bound4blue’s eSAIL is a wind-assisted propulsion system known as a s
Canada’s oil and gas player Trillion Energy has discovered an ‘abundance of gas pay’ with the fifth well in its multi-well program at a natural gas field in the Black Sea off Türkiye. The Bayhanli 2 well was spud on 5 April at the East Ayazli Tripod on the SASB gas field with the Uranus rig, which w
Bangladesh is expected to ratify the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, commonly known as the Hong Kong Convention, in the next few weeks. The decision was confirmed by the Bangladesh Government during a visit to the country by Norwegian aut
DAI Infrastructure GmbH and Freepan Holdings Corp have entered a ten-year green ammonia purchase agreement. The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) according to which Freepan will offtake 800 000 TPA of green ammonia. According to DAI, the green ammonia will be produced in East Port
Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has discovered hydrocarbons in an exploratory well in the Aram block in the Santos Basin pre-salt offshore Brazil. The 3-BRSA-1387D-SPS well is located 260 kilometers from the city of Santos-SP, at a water depth of 1,979 meters. According to Petrobra
Cool Company (CoolCo), an owner, operator and manager of LNG carriers, has entered into a new time charter agreement for one of its TFDE vessels. The multi-year charter with an undisclosed energy major starts early next year, upon redelivery from the vessel’s current charter. It will add backlog thr
UK-based HVDC cable company XLCC has completed model testing on its new cable laying vessel (CLV) that was announced last year and which will be deployed in the renewable energy sector. The vessel will feature battery energy storage systems and shore power to reduce fuel consumption and has been des
Norwegian floating solar developer Ocean Sun has reported a wider net loss in the first quarter of 2023, when compared to the same period a year earlier, with a slight increase in income.
