Australia’s Karoon Energy has engaged in negotiations to take possession of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel working on its project off the coast of Brazil with the FPSO’s current owner and operator, Altera & Ocyan (A&O).
Shell has put into operation mode its first new FPSO in the North Sea after more than two decades have gone by since its previous one.
Baker Hughes has been hired on a multi-year assignment related to two floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels, which are destined to work on two upcoming oil projects on the Stabroek block off the coast of Guyana, operated by an affiliate of America’s energy giant ExxonMobil.
Vaalco Energy has confirmed a timeline for the departure of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, operated by Canadian Natural Resources International (CNRI), from a deepwater oil field off the coast of Côte d’Ivoire in Africa.
The Netherlands’ SBM Offshore has completed the exchange of interests in two FPSO vessels with Malaysia’s MISC Berhad (MISC).
MODEC and TOYO have jointly designed the Blue Ammonia FPSO which will produce ammonia from the gas supplied by oil and gas FPSO located nearby.
French energy firm TotalEnergies has awarded offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling with a contract under which its drillship will be deployed in Suriname. Under the contract, the Stena DrillMAX will be used for managed pressure drilling of one exploration well for TotalEnergies EP Suriname B.V
A jack-up rig owned by offshore drilling contractor Valaris is en route to Angola for a drilling contract it secured last year, following preparations in Texas. According to Valaris, after completing a project at the Kiewit Shipyard in Corpus Christi, Texas, the VALARIS 144 rig has embarked on a voy
Allseas’ pipelay vessel Lorelay has completed a platform-to-platform pipeline installation in the Caribbean, for the first time ever using the bowstring start-up method, connecting the pipeline start-up head directly to the platform jacket leg. Lorelay kicked off the operations in December 2024, pla
China’s Fujian Southeast Shipbuilding has selected Norwegian company Breeze Ship Design to design a 150-ton bollard pull anchor handling tug offshore support (AHTS) vessel for an undisclosed owner. The 78-meter DP2 vessel, based on Breeze Ship Design’s Z 4650 blueprint, is said to be designed for de
Norwegian shipping company Solstad Offshore has secured contracts for two of its construction support vessels (CSVs) and one anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel, all with undisclosed clients. The CSV Normand Jarstein will kick off a 135-day contract in March, under which it will deliver subsea
Equinor has started the ball rolling to develop its controversial Bay du Nord oil project off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador by awarding preliminary front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) work to BW Offshore and Altera Infrastructure.
Petrobras has prolonged the assignment of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, chartered from Japan’s MODEC, in the Santos Basin off the coast of Brazil.
With floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) commissioning activities in full swing, BP has achieved another first at a gas development off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal, which is said to be the biggest project in its portfolio and one of the deepest, most complex gas developments in Africa.
