Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has approved Santos Offshore’s plan to conduct a 3D seismic survey in the Bonaparte Basin. Santos is proposing to undertake a 3D seismic marine survey over petroleum permit areas WA-454-P, WA-545-P, WA-27
TGS has kicked off a 2D-cubed reprocessing project designed to help drive exploration across the South Makassar and North East Java regions in Indonesia. Processing has begun on the East Java Sea project, which will utilize 2D-cubed technology to integrate all existing seismic data across a 270,000
Wood has joined forces with FutureOn to provide an integrated technical and digital service to operators to tackle main net-zero challenges.
After the holidays and well-deserved break, the energy transition community returns to its activities dedicated to making the world a less polluted and more healthy home.
Ocean data company XOCEAN has launched its newest XO-450 unmanned surface vehicle (USV), the X-16. According to XOCEAN, the new vehicle offers an economic and carbon-neutral solution to collecting ocean data. The launch of the new USV comes as part of the company’s plans to double its fleet size in
Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given DNO Norge consent for the disposal of subsea facilities on the Oselvar field. According to the formal disposal resolution, decommissioning is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The Petroleum Act require
PGS has added 10,700 square kilometers of 3D MultiClient data to its data library coverage of the Niger Delta, kick-starting a major reprocessing project. According to PGS, this will be the cornerstone of a new regional-scale MegaSurveyPlus dataset for Nigeria, with the final data set to be ready in
Magseis Fairfield has received a conditional award of an ocean bottom node (OBN) survey contract from an undisclosed repeat customer. Start-up is expected in the third quarter of the year and the project will run for approximately two months. The Norwegian company did not reveal any other details ab
Oil major Shell has decided to terminate the current contract for the survey vessel Amazon Warrior after it had to halt its seismic survey activities along South Africa’s Wild Coast following a court decision. According to the latest AIS data, Amazon Warrior has left South Africa and is currently on
Vattenfall is working on a hydrogen demonstrator project named Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1), which involves installing hydrogen production equipment on one of the wind turbines at its Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre) in Scotland. The company has already submitted a
UAE’s state-owned energy giant ADNOC will be investing nearly $1 billion in the long-term development of the Umm Shaif field.
NeuConnect, a new interconnector between the UK and Germany, has received permits from the relevant Dutch authorities for works offshore the Netherlands. A section of the project’s subsea cabling route will pass through Dutch waters in the North Sea, requiring a Water Permit and a Nature Permit, whi
Norway-based Magseis Fairfield has appointed former Shell manager Fons ten Kroode to the position of chief geophysicist, effective from 1 February. Ten Kroode, who is joining Magseis Fairfield after spending 30 years at Shell, will be based in the company’s headquarter at Lysaker. “I am pleased to w
Singapore-headquartered subsea engineering company G8 and South Korean industrial business group Holim Tech have entered into an agreement to develop a 1.5 GW of offshore wind project paired with lithium-ion energy storage system in South Korea. “We are pleased to initiate the commercial execution o
