
SBM Offshore, a provider of the design, construction, installation, and operation of offshore floating facilities, has received a stamp of approval for its NearZero floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) design from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), a classification society.

A drillship, owned by the U.S.-headquartered offshore drilling giant Noble Corporation, is slated to begin its new drilling campaign in western Africa later this month, after Tullow Ghana, a subsidiary of the UK-based Tullow Oil, wrapped up a 4D seismic survey over its fields off the coast of Ghana.

UAE-headquartered engineering and construction company Technomak has signed an engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and integration (EPCCI) agreement with the Netherlands’ integrated solutions provider Dixstone, an affiliate of Anglo-French oil and gas player Perenco Group, for a f

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has received approvals in principle (AiP) for a standardized model of a multi-purpose LNG floater-offshore (MLF-O) from three classification societies: Norway’s DNV, the UK’s Lloyd’s Register (LR), and the United States’ American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).

Lerwick Harbour, situated at the crossroads of the North Sea and Northeast Atlantic, has confirmed an uptick in preparations for servicing Equinor’s first development phase of a controversial oil and gas field on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).

Norwegian shipowner Ocean Yield has inked a deal to purchase the share that the Luxembourg-based Access Capital Partners holds in France’s Geogas LNG.

Dolphin Drilling has confirmed that its 35-year-old semi-submersible rig is now focused on its plug and abandonment (P&A) mission in the UK sector of the North Sea.

The UK-based engineering and consulting company Wood has secured three reimbursable contract extensions, allowing it to continue working with Shell UK, Dana Petroleum, and CNOOC International in the North Sea.

Akselos and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), a classification society, have strengthened their ties by wrapping up a technical assessment for structural digital twin technology to bolster safety and minimize downtime for floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units.

UK-headquartered energy giant BP has selected Quest Global, a global product engineering services company, to establish a dedicated talent center in India’s Bengaluru to help support the former’s global operations.

TotalEnergies is getting ready to embark on drilling activities off the coast of Suriname with a drillship owned by Stena Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor.

Kimmeridge Texas Gas (KTG), an affiliate of the energy-focused alternative investment manager Kimmeridge, has won a new multi-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreement (SPA) for its LNG export terminal currently under development on the west bank of the Calcasieu Ship Channel at t

3D at Depth, a subsidiary of Kraken Robotics, has tucked its 1,000th subsea metrology under its belt, thanks to an assignment on a life extension project off the coast of Angola, West Africa, which is operated by TotalEnergies EP Angola, a subsidiary of France’s energy giant TotalEnergies.

Aker Solutions has hired Multiconsult Norge to supply qualified personnel on a hire-in basis to work as an integral part of its project team, representing the civil disciplines, for the second phase of Northern Lights, part of the Longship full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.