Australia’s engineering firm Worley has picked up a multi-year renewal of its assignment in the North Sea with CNOOC International, a subsidiary of China’s CNOOC, supporting the operator’s offshore operations on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
Fit-out works are currently underway on the converter stations in Germany and the UK for NeuConnect, a high-voltage submarine cable that will create the first direct energy transmission link between the two countries. The construction of the 24-meter-high, 70-meter-wide converter hall buildings reac
The Marinus Link electricity and telecommunications interconnector to be built in Australia has secured the country’s first offshore transmission license, representing the final Commonwealth approval leading into construction. Marinus Link, which will connect North West Tasmania and Victoria’s Latro
Brazilian deepwater offshore drilling contractor Ventura Offshore has secured more action time for its semi-submersible rig off the coast of Indonesia with subsidiaries of Searah, a joint venture between Italy’s Eni and Malaysia’s Petronas.
U.S.-headquartered technology player SLB has added more than 450 wells to its job list in one fell swoop by locking down a four-contract quadfecta with Saudi Arabia’s energy giant Aramco.
Dutch Fugro has secured additional survey contracts offshore Timor-Leste that will support the planning and development of critical offshore energy infrastructure associated with two gas developments. In addition to the geophysical contract announced in July, Fugro has secured two further awards fro
A consortium of Global OTEC, a UK-based pioneer in ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) development, and the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has been selected to study a site in the Bahamas for OTEC. This has been requested by the Government of the Bahamas to provide an evidence ba
Subsea7 has secured yet another contract extension with Turkish Petroleum Offshore Technology Center (TP-OTC) for the third development phase of Türkiye’s largest natural gas field. Turkish Petroleum hired a consortium of SLB, Subsea7, and Saipem on an engineering, procurement, construction and inst
U.S.-headquartered energy services provider Expro has won a multimillion-dollar deal to provide integrated well services for a major life-extension campaign off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Nexans has started the installation of the underground land cable for an electricity interconnector that will connect the Orkney Islands to the UK mainland for the first time. Orkney Link, developed by SSEN Transmission, will comprise a new substation being built at Finstown, approximately 14 kilome
Netherlands-headquartered Subsea Cable Assets (SCA) has won its first contract with Saipem for cable transportation and transpooling services in the Caspian region, valued at approximately $20 million. Under the contract secured with Saipem Contracting Netherlands BV, SCA will provide engineering, s
Energy and marine consultancy ABL, part of Oslo-listed global consultancy group Aqualis, has been hired by Switzerland-based offshore contractor Allseas to support the lifting of a massive 60,000-ton topside in a single motion as part of a North Sea decommissioning project on the Norwegian Continent
OMS Group has opened a new remote operations center (ROC) in Singapore, dedicated to remote supervision of unmanned surface vessel (USV) operations, real-time monitoring and validation of survey data, and coordinated multi-vehicle operations across geographically dispersed projects. The ROC, operate
Carnegie Clean Energy has completed the foundation structures of the scaled CETO wave energy unit in preparation for deployment at Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) as part of the ACHIEVE Programme. CETO is a fully submerged, point absorber-type wave energy technology device. A submerged buoy si
