Project & Tenders
Vattenfall issues tender call for repair and maintenance work
Vattenfall has issued a call for tenders under which it will award a framework agreement for cable testing and fault-finding services for its offshore wind farms in Europe. The tender is divided into three lots. The company is looking to award a framework agreement with a maximum of five contractors
Prysmian wins major contract for landmark Middle East interconnection project
Prysmian Group has won a €60 million contract to lay the submarine cables for the Project Lighting interconnection project in the United Arab Emirates. Prysmian entered into a €220 million limited notice to proceed in January with Samsung C&T, as part of its EPC consortium with Jan De Nul, for the p
Danes open €5.5 million tender for environmental studies of new offshore wind areas
The Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has opened a tender for consultancy services for a number of marine environmental studies for the new areas in the North and Baltic Seas, planned to house up to 7.2 GW of new offshore wind capacity in Denmark.
Norway spearheading low-emission rig adoption, says Westwood
Westwood has found that Norway leads the way in the adoption of emission-reducing modifications for offshore rigs.
Orcadian Energy gets North Sea license extension
The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has granted oil and gas development company Orcadian Energy a one-year extension for license P2244, which contains the Pilot oilfield. The Second Term of the license was due to expire at the end of this November and has now been extended to the end of Novemb
Second well in Black Sea drilling campaign days away from being back on stream
Trillion Energy is anticipating the restart of production from the second well in its 2022 – 2023 drilling programme this week.
Probe underway after worker suffers ‘serious injury’ on jack-up rig
Norway’s safety regulator is investigating an incident involving “serious personal injury” on a jack-up rig, working in the North Sea.
First power flows from world’s largest floating offshore wind farm
First power has been produced from the first turbine at Equinor’s Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The power from the first turbine, which was installed in June, was delivered to the Gullfaks A platform in the North Sea on 13 November. The Hywind Tamp
UK player seeking partners for assets offshore Morocco and Ireland
UK-headquartered and AIM-listed oil and gas company Europa Oil & Gas is continuing the farm-out processes of two licenses respectively located offshore Morocco and Ireland. In Morocco, Europa said it is continuing the farm-out process of the Inezgane license in the Agadir Basin, which represents a “
OEUK: Raising windfall tax could put oil & gas investments at risk and undermine UK’s energy security
Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has warned that the windfall ‘supertax’ proposal risks driving out oil and gas investments from the UK waters.
New action plan comes into the limelight to accelerate decarbonisation
With COP27 in full swing, governments have set out an action plan to scale up decarbonisation efforts, says IRENA.
TDI-Brooks wraps up third geotechnical campaign at major Turkish gas project
TDI-Brooks has completed the third geotechnical support project for Phase 2 of the pipeline route investigation and site survey campaign at the Sakarya gas field offshore Türkiye. The program consisted of gravity cone penetrometer (gCPT) and T-Bar tests. During this second leg of phase two, 78 gCPTs
Van Oord selects Port of Blyth as Sofia cable base
Van Oord has selected the Port of Blyth as the location for the storage and mobilisation of inter-array cables for the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. The installation of the inter-array cables is set to begin in 2024, in which 350 kilometres of cable will pass through the Port’s Battlesh
Danish player bags five-year deal for TotalEnergies’ North Sea oil & gas assets
TotalEnergies has handed out a long-term deal for the provision of manpower and construction service to its assets in the Danish North Sea.