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14 September 2023
Skyborn receives environmental permit to build 1 GW-Storgrundet Offshore wind farm in Sweden
Skyborn Renewables (Skyborn) has received the environmental permit from the Swedish Land and Environment Court to build the Storgrundet Offshore wind farm, marking an important milestone in realizing the project. The permit allows for a maximum of 51 wind turbines, which, when fully operational, will have a capacity of roughly…
14 September 2023
Brent Umblicial programme submitted
The Brent umbilical decommissioning programme from Shell has been submitted. Full story here
14 September 2023
TotalEnergies announces an oil project of 200,000 b/d in Block 58 and launches development studies with the objective of sanctioning the project end 2024
On the occasion of the meeting held in Paramaribo between Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, His Excellency Chandrikapersad Santokhi, President of the Republic of Suriname, and Annand Jagesar, CEO of Staatsolie, TotalEnergies has announced the launching of the development studies for a large oil project in Block 58,…
14 September 2023
Avangrid’s Vineyard Wind 1 Begins Wind Turbine Installation Campaign
Avangrid, Inc, a leading sustainable energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, today announced the start of the wind turbine installation campaign for Avangrid’s Vineyard Wind 1 project. The installation campaign follows the successful transportation earlier this week of the first GE Haliade-X Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) from the…
13 September 2023
Murlach field approved by the UK aurthorities
The Murlach field which is a two-well project which is tie backed to the Eastern Tough Area Project (ETAP) installation has been approved by both the government through The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and the regulator the North Sea Transition Authority.The field is expected to have a life…
13 September 2023
Iberdrola installs all fifty monopiles of the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm
Iberdrola has successfully installed all fifty monopiles for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm together with its partner Van Oord. The next step in the ongoing construction phase now involves the installation of the transition pieces. These were manufactured by the Spanish company Windar Renovables and temporarily stored in the…
13 September 2023
Shenzi North Production Start-Up
The Woodside-operated Shenzi North project has commenced production in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. Shenzi North is a two-well subsea tieback that takes advantage of the existing Shenzi infrastructure to increase production capacity of the asset. The project, on which a final investment decision (FID) was taken in July…
13 September 2023
Panoro Energy – Dussafu Drilling Update
Panoro Energy ASA has announced that the DHIBM-6H production well at the Hibiscus Ruche Phase I development offshore Gabon has successfully been drilled, completed and handed over to production operations without incident. The well encountered good quality oil saturated reservoir sands in the regionally prolific Gamba reservoir and has been…
12 September 2023
Nauticus Robotics and MMA Offshore Sign MoU to Deploy Aquanauts into Asia-Pacific
Nauticus Robotics, Inc a developer of autonomous robots using artificial intelligence for data collection and intervention services for the ocean economies, today announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with MMA Offshore Limited (“MMA Offshore”) (ASX: MRM), a global provider of high-specification vessels and a comprehensive suite…
12 September 2023
Woodside Progresses Carbon Capture and Storage Studies
Woodside Energy has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with three Japanese companies to enable studies of a potential carbon, capture and storage (CCS) value chain between Japan and Australia. Under the MOU, Sumitomo Corporation, Toho Gas Co., Ltd. and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. will study the capture, storage…
12 September 2023
New round of successful growth programme opens for North East Scotland businesses looking to break into offshore renewables
Businesses in the North East of Scotland aiming to enter the rapidly expanding offshore renewable energy sector can apply to the highly successful Fit For Offshore Renewables (F4OR) supply chain support programme from the 7th September. Run by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, F4OR is entering its fourth round…
12 September 2023
New report shows the clock is ticking for energy jobs
A new report by Robert Gordon University has found that the UK offshore energy workforce can increase by up to 50% from over 150,000 in 2023 to 225,000 by the end of the decade with new renewable jobs outnumbering oil and gas roles if a successful transition is achieved. Full…
11 September 2023
Norway and Germany are taking their hydrogen cooperation a step further
The Norwegian and German governments have now agreed to establish a working group to follow up the results of the ongoing study investigating the possibilities for transporting hydrogen and CO2 between Germany and Norway. Norway and Germany have a common intention to put in place large-scale deliveries of hydrogen from…
11 September 2023
Orbital Marine Power awarded 2 further CfDs as part of UK Government renewable energy auction.
Orbital Marine Power Ltd, the renewable energy company focused on the deployment of its pioneering floating tidal turbine, has been awarded 2 Contracts for Difference (CfDs) for 7.2MW in the UK Allocation Round 5 (AR5) process. This builds on Orbital’s success in the previous year’s Allocation Round 4, where it…
11 September 2023
Orbital Marine Power awarded 2 further CfDs as part of UK Government renewable energy auction.
Orbital Marine Power Ltd, the renewable energy company focused on the deployment of its pioneering floating tidal turbine, has been awarded 2 Contracts for Difference (CfDs) for 7.2MW in the UK Allocation Round 5 (AR5) process. This builds on Orbital’s success in the previous year’s Allocation Round 4, where it…
11 September 2023
Saipem: awarded new offshore contracts in Côte d’Ivoire and Italy for an overall amount of 850 million euro
Saipem has been awarded two new contracts for offshore activities in Côte d’Ivoire and Italy for an overall amount of 850 million euro. The first contract has been awarded to Saipem by Eni Côte d’Ivoire and its partner Petroci. It is a Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines (SURF) contract for…
11 September 2023
Formosa 2 Offshore Wind Farm Begins its Commercial Operations in Taiwan
JERA announces that its second offshore wind project in Taiwan, Formosa 2 Offshore Wind Farm, achieved the great accomplishment of commercial operations today (September 8), officially marking the commencement of the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) phase, a pivotal moment for this project-financed investment. JERA has been instrumental in steering the…
8 September 2023
Commencement of pipeline route survey & receipt of platform bids : Anning & Somerville fields
Hartshead Resources NL and Joint Venture (JV) partner Rockrose Energy (Rockrose) (part of Viaro Group) have announced that the Gardline Vessel “Ocean Observer” has mobilised to the Anning and Somerville field locations to commence a survey of the pipeline routing for the gas offtake from the fields. The survey is expected…
8 September 2023
Prysmian secures the €630m Adriatic Link submarine cable project from Terna
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a new contract worth around €630 million by Terna Rete Italia S.p.A., a company fully owned by Terna S.p.A., the Italian power grid operator (TSO). The Adriatic Link project includes the design, supply, installation, and…
8 September 2023
KCA Deutag secures $60 million offshore drilling contract extension in Angola
KCA Deutag, a leading drilling, engineering and technology partner, has secured a one-year contract extension, with a value of $60 million, for the provision of drilling operations and maintenance services on two offshore platforms in Angola. The award will see KCA Deutag continue to deliver core drilling operations and maintenance…
8 September 2023
SSE Renewables concludes successful survey campaigns at Arklow Bank
SSE Leading renewable energy developer, owner and operator SSE Renewables has announced the successful completion of two offshore survey campaigns for the Arklow Bank Wind Park 2 project. The surveys took place over an eight-week period during July and August. Irish contractor Ground Investigation Ireland undertook a nearshore borehole campaign…
7 September 2023
Vineyard Wind's First Turbine Departs New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal
Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between AVANGRID, Inc. (NYSE: AGR) and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) shipped the first GE Haliade-X Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) from the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal to its location more than 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. Foss Maritime, a US service contractor…
7 September 2023
WES investigating the potential of combined wind/wave structures
Following the promising range of potential benefits identified in the scenarios within the “Wave and Floating Wind Energy - Opportunities for Sharing Infrastructure, Services and Supply Chain” report supplied by Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) Ltd, Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has begun a series of tank tests at the University of…
7 September 2023
bp awards DORIS a 5-year global framework agreement for offshore wind engineering services
DORIS, a leader in engineering, advisory and project management for energy, has been awarded a framework agreement by bp for the provision of engineering services to bp’s offshore wind projects. This framework will see DORIS support bp globally. DORIS, drawing on its 20-year track record in offshore wind, will combine…
7 September 2023
Petrobras will install 11 new pre-salt platforms by 2027
The pre-salt reaches 15 years of production in September with renewed vigor – and significant growth perspective in the coming years. To give you an idea, Petrobrás plans to deploy 11 new production platforms in the pre-salt layer by 2027. Since December 2022, the company has already put into production…
6 September 2023
SLB Signs Subsurface Technology Partnership Agreement with INEOS Energy
SLB has signed a subsurface technology partnership with INEOS Energy, the energy division of INEOS; a global chemical and manufacturing company. INEOS Energy will partner with SLB’s Performance Centre in Aberdeen, to collaborate and innovate subsurface technologies, including AI capabilities, to help it drive operational performance for continued growth, new…
6 September 2023
Boskalis awarded large cable contracts for Baltica offshore wind farm
Boskalis has acquired two contracts for the transportation and installation of the export and array cables for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm off the coast of Poland. The two contracts have a combined value which is considered to be large(1) and they were awarded by a joint venture between…
6 September 2023
CorPower Ocean deploys C4 Wave Energy Converter
CorPower Ocean has successfully installed its first commercial scale WEC (Wave Energy Converter) in northern Portugal, as it accelerates towards making wave energy a bankable technology for mass deployment. The CorPower C4 device was launched in the port of Viana do Castello, before being towed to the Aguçadoura site located…
6 September 2023
Osbit supplies upending hinge to Boskalis for US offshore wind project
Osbit, offshore wind technology supplier and member company in Venterra Group, has successfully delivered a monopile upending hinge to Boskalis to support its latest US East Coast operations. The hinge is initially being used by Boskalis on a project to install a significant number of monopile foundations. The hinge is…
5 September 2023
Yggdrasil and Valhall PWP-Fenris: Construction is underway
Aker BP celebrated the first official steel cut for its two major developments, Yggdrasil and Valhall PWP-Fenris on the Norwegian shelf. The event at Stord marks the start of three years of high activity and thousands of jobs at yards and suppliers throughout Norway. “It’s fantastic to get started on…
5 September 2023
Offshore construction in the North Sea begins on RWE’s flagship Sofia Offshore Wind Farm
Offshore construction has officially started at RWE’s 1.4 gigawatt (GW) Sofia Offshore Wind Farm, to install essential subsea cable infrastructure from the UK’s north east coast to the wind farm site on Dogger Bank, in the central North Sea. Cable contractor Prysmian’s high-tech Leonardo da Vinci vessel will lay the…
5 September 2023
Höegh LNG and Aker BP Form Strategic Partnership for Carbon Transport and Storage Solutions
Höegh LNG and Aker BP have entered a strategic partnership to develop a fully comprehensive carbon transport and storage (CCS) offering for industrial CO2 emitters in Northern Europe. The agreement combines the companies’ respective strengths, expertise, and technologies to establish a strong value chain for CCS on the Norwegian Continental…
5 September 2023
Prysmian successfully completes the record – breaking Viking Link Interconnector between the UK and Denmark, powering up to 1.4 million households
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, announces it has successfully completed the installation and HV testing activities of its 1,400 km of submarine and land power cables for the Viking Link Interconnector, the world’s longest onshore and offshore HVDC interconnector connecting the UK and…
4 September 2023
SSE Renewables and Green Rebel complete successful survey works off the East and South coasts
Leading renewable energy developer, owner and operator SSE Renewables has announced the conclusion of successful geophysical surveys off the South and East coasts of Ireland. The geophysical surveys have been completed by specialist Cork-based offshore site investigation company Green Rebel. The surveys, which took place over the course of three…
4 September 2023
Maria Phase 2 template successfully installed
Wintershall Dea and its partners Petoro and Sval Energi have marked a major milestone for the second phase of the operated Maria field with the safe installation of an additional subsea template on the seabed at Haltenbanken on the west coast of Norway. By extending the existing Maria field, the…
4 September 2023
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier awarded a contract with Shimizu for Jack-up vessel Blue Wind
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier (FOWIC) has been awarded a contract working with Shimizu for the transportation and installation of monopile foundations for the 640 MW project (8 MW / 80 wind turbines) at Yunlin offshore windfarm off the west side of central Taiwan. FOWIC which is in a cooperative relationship with…
4 September 2023
Inauguration of the Absheron gas field
On the occasion of the inauguration ceremony of the Absheron gas field, whose first development phase started production in early July 2023 and is currently producing 1.5 BCMA (billions of cubic meters per year), Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, met on Thursday in Baku His Excellency Mr. Ilham…
1 September 2023
Hellenic Cables will supply inter-array cables for the Eoliennes en mer Dieppe Le Tréport OWF in France
Hellenic Cables, the cables segment of Cenergy Holdings, has recently signed a contract with DEME Offshore, a leading offshore energy contractor for the supply of inter-array cables for the Eoliennes en mer Dieppe Le Tréport (EMDT), an offshore wind farm in France, located off the coast in the English Channel,…
1 September 2023
Vår Energi ramps up exploration activity in the Barents Sea
Vår Energi sees substantial opportunities for further growth and value creation in the north and has secured the COSLProspector drilling rig for a two-year drilling program in the Barents region, in cooperation with Equinor. The rig contract with COSL Offshore Management AS builds on a cooperation between Vår Energi and…
1 September 2023
Oceaneering Awarded International Contracts for Offshore Projects Group: Angola Block 17, Girassol Life Extension Project and Stabroek Block, Offshore Guyana
Oceaneering International, Inc. announces that its Offshore Projects Group (OPG) segment has been awarded two international contracts, with combined total value in excess of $100 million. Oceaneering has been named a consortium partner to support transportation and installation work on the Girassol Life Extension project. The scope of work includes…
1 September 2023
Westwood Insight – Rig dayrates have risen, so when are the new rig orders coming?
Much has been written in recent months about the increase in offshore rig utilisation and dayrates. With key segments of the fleet at 95% utilisation or higher, dayrates for non-harsh environment jackup fixtures have surpassed $150,000, while floating rigs have been secured for contracts at or above $475,000. Right on…
31 August 2023
Compressor Technology for First Unmanned Norwegian Gas-Production Platform
MAN Energy Solutions has received three orders for a total of seven compressor systems. These will be delivered to the Aker BP-operated production platforms, Hugin A and Munin, in the Yggdrasil area, and a new production and wellhead platform (PWP) in the Valhall field centre. The Valhall field is located…
31 August 2023
Sercel Extends its OBN Portfolio to Operate in All Seabed Survey Water Depths
The GPR300 nodal solution was specifically designed for seismic acquisition in shallow water down to 300 meters. Since its launch in 2021, over 50,000 nodes have been successfully deployed in the field and have consistently demonstrated their outstanding efficiency and added value for the clearest subsurface images. Building on the…
31 August 2023
RWE Grows U.S. Offshore Wind Development Portfolio by 2-Gigawatt in BOEM’s First-Ever Offshore Wind Lease Auction in the Gulf of Mexico
RWE, a leading offshore wind company globally, has been successful in the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) first-ever Gulf of Mexico offshore wind lease auction, securing Lease Area OCS-G 37334 with a winning bid of USD 5.6 million. The DOI’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) led the auction…
31 August 2023
Cellula Robotics Ltd. Initiates Sea Trials of its Solus-XR System, Marking a Significant Project Milestone and Demonstrating Commitment to Cutting-Edge XLUUV Technology
Cellula Robotics Ltd. proudly announces a monumental moment in a project that commenced in early 2023, showcasing the company's dedication to advancing Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (XLUUVs). The Solus-XR XLUUV has officially embarked on its highly anticipated sea trials, signifying a crucial stride in the company’s development of its…
30 August 2023
Van Oord’s brand new cable-laying vessel Calypso arrived in The Netherlands
Brand new cable-laying vessel Calypso has officially been handed over to Van Oord. This morning, the vessel arrived in the Netherlands. In September it will be christened in Rotterdam. The final construction phase took place at the Vard Brattvaag shipyard in Norway, where the cable-related equipment was installed. The next-generation,…
30 August 2023
Celebrated construction start for Skarv Satellite Project in Sandnessjøen
On Tuesday, 29 August, Aker BP, Aker Solutions and Subsea 7 marked the start-up of production work on the first of three seabed installations (subsea manifolds) for the Skarv Satellite Project (SSP) in Aker Solutions’ workshop halls in Sandnessjøen. The milestone was celebrated alongside a number of employees from operator…
30 August 2023
Fugro supports the Netherlands’ energy transition with site investigations for RVO’s Nederwiek wind farm sites II & III (noord)
Fugro has been awarded two geotechnical investigation contracts for the development of the Dutch Nederwiek wind farm sites II & III (noord). The contracts, awarded by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), are part of the Dutch Government’s Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap 2030/31, which aims to accelerate the development of offshore…
30 August 2023
Trion receives regulatory approval
The Trion field development plan (FDP) has been approved by the Mexican regulator, Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH). Woodside’s final investment decision (FID) to develop the Trion resource, announced 20 June 2023, was subject to Trion joint venture approval and regulatory approval of the FDP. Both of these conditions have…
29 August 2023
Stillstrom A/S and North Star join forces to accelerate Vessel Electrification and Offshore Charging in the offshore Wind Industry
Stillstrom A/S and North Star join forces to accelerate Vessel Electrification and Offshore Charging in the offshore Wind Industry. Stillstrom, a leading provider of innovative offshore charging solutions, and North Star, the UK’s leading offshore support services vessel operator, sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the adoption of…