U.S.-based Helix Energy Solutions Group has won a contract for deepwater well intervention with Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria (ESSO) for a project located approximately 97 kilometers offshore Nigeria. The activities to be carried out in the Erha and Usan fields are expected to commence in
Denmark has ended its investigation concerning the explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines that occurred in September 2022, becoming the second country to do so. Germany, Sweden and Denmark each initiated respective national investigations into the incident after four gas leaks were foun
Dutch offshore services giant Boskalis has commissioned its new cable-laying vessel (CLV) BOKA Ocean following a major conversion program. Boskalis welcomed BOKA Ocean to its fleet in August 2023 as a pipe-laying vessel, which was then converted into a broadly deployable cable layer. After completin
Norway’s asset integrity management company Axess Group and Guyana Logistics and Support Services (GLASS) have established a joint venture (JV) to launch an engineering and asset integrity management (AIM) firm in Guyana. Axess has been delivering services including design, inspection, maintenance,
MMA Offshore reported strong demand for its vessels and services in the first FY2024 half-year. With newbuild vessel orders at a historic low and limited additional vessel supply anticipated in the coming couple of years, the Australia-headquartered company said it was expecting favorable market con
Woodside has selected the U.S. provider of offshore drilling solutions Dril-Quip for the delivery of subsea wellhead systems for its deepwater oil project in the Perdido basin in the Gulf of Mexico. Dril-Quip is set to supply BigBore IIe subsea wellhead systems for the Trion greenfield deepwater dev
Norway’s Enhanced Drilling has announced a new five-year contract with Equinor, including the use of all Enhanced Drilling technologies. This frame agreement, which took effect on February 1, 2024, is the first of its kind for Enhanced Drilling. It is for operations on the Norwegian continental shel
Norway-headquartered DOF Group has been awarded a contract to repair an export cable for an offshore wind farm in the Southern North Sea. The project, awarded by an international energy operator, includes the retrieval of the damaged cable and termination, installation, trenching, and commissioning
Norwegian seismic company PGS has signed an agreement with Shell for its cloud-based digital asset management solution designed specifically for seismic data, which is set to enable the UK-headquartered energy giant to streamline access to seismic data and accelerate workflows. This Data OnDemand Ag
Baker Hughes has secured a contract with Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras for integrated well construction services for a large deepwater field, located in Brazil’s pre-salt Santos Basin. The integrated services project is set to start in the first half of 2025 and will include dril
UK’s EnergyPathways has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with MCS Subsea Solutions (MCS) and Mermaid Subsea Services related to negotiating the provision of subsea FEED services for its field in the UK Irish Sea. The MoU concerns negotiating the provision of subsea FEED engineering, projec
Thermoplastic composite pipes (TCP) have shown exceptionally low hydrogen permeation values, demonstrating technical suitability for high-pressure hydrogen service, Dutch TCP producer Strohm reported following a TCP hydrogen testing program. Strohm recently completed an extensive six-month hydrogen
Scottish subsea specialist Sulmara is set to repurpose an emergency response rescue vessel (ERRV) into a multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV) with the addition of equipment to suit the renewables market. Sulmara has signed a three-year deal with Atlantic Offshore to charter the 67-meter DPII multi-pu
Australian Composites Manufacturing (ACM CRC), Ocius Technology, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have set out through an R&D project to optimize the use of wave energy for propulsion, utilizing energy for underwater flippers for unmanned surface vessels (USVs). Bluebottle-class USVs, de
