
New modes of fast, reliable and fuel efficient transport for offshore crew and provisions promise to boost offshore energy operations. Vessels that sail at high speed even in the roughest conditions and that are able to provide safe and easy transfer from ship to offshore stations offer crew welfare

Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras has awarded new long-term charter and service contracts to companies owned by the Norwegian DOF Group, Norskan Offshore and DOF Subsea Serviços Brasil.

As the offshore drilling market continues to improve, Vantage Drilling managed to reduce its net loss in the first quarter of 2022.

Well integrity specialists HydraWell and READ have teamed up to create a combined company focused on late-life oilfield activities including cost-efficient and environmentally safe permanent plugging and abandonment (P&A) of hydrocarbon wells.

PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and Ørsted have removed the tender lot for the Baltica 2 offshore substation topsides from the call launched in September last year, and will now consider how to re-tender it while they continue the process for the other lot under the existing tender.

Several European renewable energy associations have united to call for changes to the EU’s Innovation Fund as its award criteria ‘puts renewable energy projects at a structural disadvantage’.

Titan LNG and Brittany Ferries have signed a long-term agreement for the supply of LNG and LBM to two new LNG-fueled hybrid Ro-Pax vessels.

China plans to ramp up the building of fully electric battery-powered ships to operate on the country’s extensive inland waterways network following the successful maiden voyage of the Chang Jiang San Xia 1, a battery-powered cruise ship, China Classification Society (CCS) said.

Australian government and oil and gas industry have allocated $1.2 million in funding to build the country’s first deepwater hyperbaric chamber testing and maintenance facility, capable of facilitating subsea control modules.

TotalEnergies has implemented a worldwide drone-based detection campaign across its operated oil and gas assets to reduce methane emissions.

The world’s first rapid testing facility for tidal turbine blades, which researchers say can speed up development of marine energy technologies while helping to reduce costs, has opened for business in Scotland.

Last week, Canada Steamship Lines’ new diesel-electric self-unloading vessel, MV Nukumi, completed its inaugural loading and discharge of deicing salt for Windsor Salt.

British Octopus Energy Group has entered into a financial and strategic partnership with Xlinks, the company building the world’s longest subsea cable to deliver renewable energy from Morocco to the UK.

Environmental activists in the UK have blocked a Russian oil tanker from docking in Essex, calling on the government to “get off Russian oil and gas.”