Norway’s Reach Subsea has secured two new call‑offs under its frame agreement with compatriot state-owned energy firm Equinor which will see its uncrewed surface vessel (USV) Reach Remote 1 deployed for gas reservoir monitoring and subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services on the Norw
Oilfield services company NOV has launched a joint industry project (JIP) with Norwegian state-owned energy firm Equinor and Brazil’s oil & gas company Petrobras to work together on qualifying subsea chemical storage technology toward field deployment. The JIP is progressing an up to 200m3 subsea st
A new train is in the pipeline for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off the northwest coast of Western Australia (WA), following a recent strategic partnership between Japan’s Inpex and Texas-based Formentera to accelerate development of a project by leveraging U.S. shale technology and experti
French energy giant TotalEnergies and Switzerland-headquartered sustainable construction player Holcim have inaugurated a floating solar power plant with a 31 MW capacity, located in Belgium. The plant, inaugurated on March 20, is located in Obourg on a former chalk quarry site that has been rehabil
Saipem’s underwater inspection drone (UID) FlatFish has completed a test campaign with Brazil’s oil & gas major Petrobras as part of a contract awarded in 2023, ahead of deployment in a real offshore environment. The functional acceptance tests (FAT) were held at Saipem’s underwater drone testing fa
Brazil’s offshore vessel owners OceanPact and CBO are set to combine their businesses by incorporating CBO’s holding company into OceanPact, thereby creating a firm that will have a total fleet of 73 vessels. The partners note that the business combination is a catalyst for implementing sustainable
Three players – Seadrill, an offshore drilling contractor, Kongsberg Maritime (KM), a technology player, and Hanwha Drilling, a provider of offshore drilling services – have forged an alliance to develop the next generation of remote dynamic positioning (DP) technology to establish new standards for
CNOOC (Shenzhen) International Marine Clean Energy, a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned oil and gas giant China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), and CLPe, a wholly owned subsidiary of CLP Holdings, have wrapped up Hong Kong’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship-to-ship bunker operation
Everllence, formerly MAN Energy Solutions, has signed a cooperation agreement with Brazil’s Vale, a mining company and one of the country’s largest logistics operators, for the development of ethanol as a marine fuel. The partners will work on developing an advanced ethanol-powered engine, based on
MET International, the trading and wholesale arm of Switzerland-headquartered energy company MET Group, and Shell Global LNG Limited have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand their existing long-term cooperation in LNG and gas trading. The agreement provides a framework f
Intermoor, Acteon’s Moorings and Anchors business line, has secured a three-year contract with Brazil’s oil & gas giant Petrobras for stack-up mooring system services in Brazil. The multi-million-dollar contract will see the provision of work to support light-workover interventions and abandonment o
Norway-headquartered Kongsberg Maritime has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indonesia’s state-owned and largest shipyard, PT PAL Indonesia, to work on advancing energy efficiency and decarbonization across the country’s maritime sector. Kongsberg Maritime said that the agreement repr
A consortium of AF Offshore Decom, part of AF Gruppen, and Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has secured a contract for the engineering, preparation, removal and disposal (EPRD) of a North Sea platform on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). The platform’s topsides weigh approximately 27,500 tons and the
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Eidesvik Offshore has tasked Halsnøy Dokk with the conversion of the platform supply vessel (PSV) Viking Energy to ammonia-powered operations. The conversion is planned to be completed in autumn, when the 95-meter-long vessel will continue operating for Equinor, with
