Petrobras’ new president Roberto Castello Branco took office on Thursday, January 3, during a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.
DEA has welcomed three students at DEA Norway who’s PhD projects investigating NCS geology it supports. The met up offered the opportunity to exchange ideas and analysis. For the next three years, Andreas Hagset at the University of Tromsø, will study the potential for finding oil prone source rocks
German offshore wind farms generated over 18.8 Terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2018, an over 8% increase compared to 17.4TWh generated in the German North Sea and the Baltic Sea in 2017, according to the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems.
The Project Forward initiative led by Athens-based Arista Shipping, has been granted a patent from the South Korean Intellectual Property Office Examiner.
Wellard is keeping a watchful eye on Turkey’s halt of live feeder cattle import from all countries.
Equinor has awarded Aibel the engineering, procurement, and construction contract for the final bridge on the Johan Sverdrup field.
PTTEP has suspended operations at the Greater Bongkot North and South production platforms located in the path of tropical storm Pabuk.
Drydocks Worl has recently completed the Rashid D Wellhead Platform jacket and topside for TechnipFMC and end client Dubai Petroleum. The topside is an oil and gas processing module weighing 950 tons, designed for unmanned offshore operation with a life span of 25 years. It contains advanced piping
Oil company DNO has extended the deadline for Faroe Petroleum shareholders to accept its 152 pence a share takeover bid, giving them time until mid-January. DNO said on Thursday it had increased its holding to 30 percent of Faroe’s shares. It said its 152 pence offer for each Faroe share was now a m
London-based Ophir Energy said it has entered talks with Medco regarding the latter’s potential purchase of Ophir’s issued and to be issued share capital.
SeaPlanner, SeaRoc Group’s marine monitoring and management solution, has been selected to support the operational phase of the Merkur offshore wind farm as part of the company’s strategic partnership with Marine Coordination Services BV.
An 18-meter end section of the Ocean Cleanup’s System 001, broke off.
Topaz Energy and Marine has signed an agreement with an unnamed north European contractor to charter its newbuild subsea vessel, Topaz Tangaroa, for work on renewable energy projects, primarily in support of offshore wind farms in the southern North Sea.
Ørsted will pause and revisit its project activities, the project timelines, and local commitments in Taiwan after not receiving an establishment permit in time to sign a 2018 power purchase agreement (PPA) with Taipower for the Changhua 1 and 2a projects.
