
Gulf Marine Services (GMS), a UAE-headquartered provider of self‐propelled, self‐elevating support vessels for the offshore energy sector, has landed a new long-term assignment for one of its large‐class vessels in the Middle East.

Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has given its green light to Woodside Energy for permanent plug and abandonment (P&A) and well intervention activities for subsea wells associated with a gas project situated on the country’s northwest coa

Sable Offshore, a Texas-headquartered oil and gas company, has received an emergency special permit for Santa Ynez pipeline system segments.

Petronas LNG, a subsidiary of Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas heavyweight Petronas, and CNOOC Gas and Power Singapore Trading & Marketing, an affiliate of Chinese state-owned oil and gas giant China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), have expanded their existing relationship by striking a

CB&I, a designer and builder of storage facilities, tanks, and terminals owned by a consortium of financial investors led by Mason Capital Management, has made a play for Petrofac’s Asset Solutions business, a provider of operations, maintenance and decommissioning services for onshore and offshore

Norwegian Shearwater GeoServices is set to deploy its high-end vessel SW Duchess for a two-month multi-client seismic survey offshore Nigeria at the end of the year. The survey will provide high-resolution subsurface data across the Western Niger Delta Basin, supporting exploration decisions and fut

Chevron Cyprus, a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered oil major Chevron, and its partners, BG Cyprus (Shell) and NewMed Energy, have decided to move forward with a front-end engineering design (FEED) work for an offshore gas field reservoir in Block 12, located in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterra

U.S.-headquartered offshore energy services provider Helix Energy Solutions has secured a multi-year contract for riserless plug and abandonment (P&A) operations on up to 34 subsea wells in the UK North Sea. The award came from a “major operator”, as Helix said, and includes the flushing and disconn

Italian cabling giant Prysmian and Versalis, the chemical subsidiary of Italian energy giant Eni, have established a strategic partnership to give new life to plastic cable scrap through an innovative chemical recycling process. Srinivas Siripurapu, Chief Sustainability, Innovation and R&D Officer a

Japan’s shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has struck a finance deal for a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), which will be deployed in Singapore, Asia.

Akrake Petroleum, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lime Petroleum Holding, which is an 89.74% subsidiary of Singapore’s Rex International Holding, has encountered technical difficulties during its drilling activities at a field off the coast of Benin.

Malaysia’s Yinson Production, a subsidiary of Kuala Lumpur-based energy infrastructure and technology company Yinson, has revealed a steel cutting ceremony for a newbuild floating storage and offloading (FSO) unit, which will be deployed at the Block B gas field off the coast of Vietnam, Southeast A

Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has received approval in principle (AiP) from compatriot classification society ClassNK for the basic design of specialized vessels for subsea power cable jointing and burial. MOL is working with Sumitomo Electric Industries, Furukawa Electric, and N

Chinese state-owned oil and gas giant China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has unveiled a new oilfield find, which it describes as a major discovery in central Bohai Sea off the coast of China.