Project & Tenders

Energean could push back first gas from Karish to 2022
Oil and gas company Energean has informed that first gas from its Israeli fields could start flowing in the first quarter of 2022, instead of the current target of around year-end 2021.

Kongsberg joins Hywind Tampen crew
Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract with Wood to supply positioning and monitoring equipment for the Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm. Kongsberg will supply its DPS position reference system and Motion Reference Unit (MRU) for what will be the world’s largest floating offshore wind fa

NEO Energy in talks to buy ExxonMobil’s North Sea assets
HitecVision’s NEO Energy has entered into exclusive negotiations to buy ExxonMobil’s upstream assets located in the central and northern North Sea.

German and Danish TSOs form Bornholm energy island pact
German transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz and Danish TSO Energinet have signed a Letter of Intent to collaborate on the Bornholm Energy Island project in the Baltic Sea. The Bornholm Energy Island would connect Germany and Denmark to an offshore hub with around 2,000 MW of wind power capacit

Mott MacDonald joins largest European offshore wind to hydrogen project
Mott MacDonald has secured a technical integration and optimization contract for NortH2, the largest green hydrogen project in Europe. As lead technical integration consultant, Mott MacDonald will collate, evaluate and develop the potential technical solutions required to realize the project. The co

Dolphin rig lands new deal in Norway
Dolphin Drilling has secured another rig contract with a new Norwegian operator. This time with INEOS Energy on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Triton Knoll enters wind turbine installation phase
Cadeler’s wind farm installation vessel Wind Osprey has arrived at the Triton Knoll wind farm loaded with the first sets of MHI Vestas V164-9.5 MW turbines. The installation of the first wind turbine at the site some 32 kilometres offshore Lincolnshire, UK, is ongoing. Wind Osprey loaded the turbine

Tekmar scoops up new offshore wind cable protection job
UK-based Tekmar Energy has secured a new subsea cables protection contract on a ‘major’ operational offshore wind farm project. The contract also includes work for Tekmar Energy’s sister companies Subsea Innovation and AgileTek Engineering. The deal, which follows Pipeshield’s largest-ever contract

Heerema Fabrication to build Hollandse Kust Noord substation jacket
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has secured a contract with Iemants, a subsidiary of Smulders, to construct the offshore transformer jacket for the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project. Construction, which will take place at the HFG Vlissingen yard, is expected to begin this month and be compl

Third Island Offshore vessel starts operating for Lundin
Offshore vessel provider Island Offshore now has three hybrid platform supply vessels (PSVs) in service for Lundin Energy in Norway.

EMEC scouts for OESA external advisor
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is looking to contract a marine energy technology developer to act as an external advisor to the Ocean Energy Scale-up Alliance (OESA).

Petrojarl Banff FPSO to be recycled at M.A.R.S.
M.A.R.S. Europe has been awarded a contract by Teekay for dismantling and recycling of the Petrojarl Banff FPSO, after 21 years of service in the North Sea.

Norway offers 61 offshore licences to 30 companies
The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has offered 61 production licences on the Norwegian continental shelf in the APA 2020 to 30 companies.

Spirit taps Wood for late-life solutions on Morecambe
Wood has entered into a new agreement with Spirit Energy to partner on the delivery of late-life solutions for the Morecambe Bay gas fields.