Project & Tenders

Wintershall Dea in last phase of Nova project as drilling operations start
Oil and gas company Wintershall Dea has started drilling the first of six wells on the operated Nova field in the Norwegian North Sea.

Prosafe gets $13.6 million worth North Sea job from ConocoPhillips
Prosafe has been awarded a contract by ConocoPhillips to provide accommodation support on the Ekofisk field located offshore Norway.

Awilco bracing for cost-cutting measures following rig order cancellation and delay
Offshore drilling contractor Awilco Drilling is preparing for cost-cutting measures amid a challenging environment in the offshore drilling market.

Germans award hydrographic support contract for offshore wind farms
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has awarded Geo Group with a contract for hydrographic support for offshore wind projects in Germany. Geo Ingenieurservice Nord-Ost will provide hydrographic support for pre-exploration of the ground for offshore wind projects in the German Ex

Danish developers scout for brainpower for three nearshore wind projects
HOFOR and Lillebælt Vind have issued a few calls for tender prequalification over the past several days as part of their plans to build offshore/nearshore wind farms in the Øresund and Lillebælt areas in Denmark. The two Danish companies are currently jointly prequalifying engineering consultancies

Turkey could work with foreign firms to develop Sakarya gas field
Turkey stated that there is a possibility that it would cooperate with foreign companies to develop its massive discovery in the Black Sea.

Gasunie rolls out Porthos CO2 offshore pipeline setup tender
Dutch natural gas infrastructure and transportation company Gasunie is seeking a contactor for CO2 offshore pipeline installation from Port of Rotterdam to the riser of the offshore platform as part of the Porthos CCS project. The Porthos project centres on the capture and storage of CO2 in the Nort

CMP joins Copenhagen’s carbon capture project
Copenhagen Malmö Port (CMP), a Danish-Swedish joint venture port operator, revealed it would join the application for the EU funding for CO2 capture project on Amager Bakke.

Shearwater wins new 3D seismic gig
Seismic exploration company Shearwater GeoServices has landed a deal for large 3D seismic acquisition and depth processing. According to the company, the work scope is in the Europe, Africa and Middle East (EAME) region. The survey, for an undisclosed national oil company, should take six months to

Tampnet to cover Gemini offshore wind farm with 4G
Tampnet has secured a contract to provide 4G/LTE coverage for the Gemini offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Tampnet will operate two base stations, one on each of the two substations, and will also provide coverage for the service operation vessel (SOV) and the crew transfer vessels (CTV) workin

Spanish yard set to deliver Johan Sverdrup module
Spanish yard Navantia has completed and is ready to deliver a module built for the Equinor-operated Johan Sverdrup field located offshore Norway.

Trelleborg to shield Kaskasi cables
Trelleborg has secured a contract by Seaway 7 to provide its NjordGuard cable protection for the Kaskasi offshore wind project in Germany. Trelleborg will provide 86 integrated cable protection systems to protect the inter-array grid power cables from over-bending, abrasion, and fatigue. Production

Wärtsilä bags tech order for ethane-fueled VLECs
The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply the cargo handling and fuel supply system for two new 98,000 cbm Very Large Ethane Carriers (VLEC).

Equinor setting the scene for Northern Lights project with ‘first big contract’
Equinor is pushing forward with the development of the Northern Lights, a carbon capture and storage project in Norway.