The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has secured a £15 million (around €17.5 million) investment to expand its tidal energy research and development (R&D) infrastructure in Orkney, Scotland. The Blue Horizon project will expand EMEC’s tidal test facilities to enable the demonstration of tidal en
A consortium of South Korea’s SK Innovation, PetroVietnam Power Corporation (PV Power), a subsidiary of Vietnam’s state-run PetroVietnam group, and Vietnamese company NASU has been selected as the project developer for Vietnam’s largest LNG power project. Valued at approximately $2.3 billion, the Qu
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has proposed the date for the third offshore lease sale out of thirty Gulf of America (U.S. Gulf of Mexico) oil and gas lease sales under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Norway’s Reach Subsea is anticipated to commence an offshore survey campaign next week for the second 525 kV HVDC cable link between Shetland and the Scottish mainland, known as the Shetland HVDC Link 2. Shetland 2 will connect 330 kilometers between Shetland and the mainland to bring 2 GW of renewa
Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has secured the go-ahead from the country’s authorities to use one of COSL Drilling Europe’s semi-submersible rigs for drilling operations in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.
Norwegian state-owned oil and gas giant Equinor has conducted drilling activities at a wildcat well in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway with one of COSL Drilling Europe’s semi-submersible rigs. This well did not yield commercial quantities of hydrocarbons.
Türkiye‘s national oil & gas giant Türkiye Petrolleri A.O. (TPAO) has become a partner in an offshore exploration license in Bulgaria, located near Sakarya, Türkiye’s largest natural gas field. TPAO reported today, February 18, that it had, as a partner, joined the exploration license in the Khan Te
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution has selected five contract partners to help deliver future investment of up to £950 million (about €1.09 billion) in the Scottish subsea electricity network and support the multi-year framework to renew and upgrade subsea electricity lin
U.S.-headquartered Chevron, through its four Dutch subsidiaries, and Greece’s Helleniq Energy have signed lease agreements with the Greek government for the exploration of four blocks offshore Greece. The awarded consortium, in which Chevron holds a 70% operating interest and Helleniq Energy a 30% i
The French Government is planning to have 250 MW of tidal energy capacity awarded by 2030, as part of the third edition of the country’s energy strategy on the way towards carbon neutrality by 2050. The Publication Pluriannuelle de l’Energie (Multiannual Energy Programme (PPE)) includes commercial t
UK-headquartered and AIM-listed oil and gas company Europa Oil & Gas has reaffirmed that all requirements are out of the way for an extension of a production sharing contract (PSC), covering a block off the coast of Equatorial Guinea. A recently signed farm-out deal for the block is still pending re
Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor has received clearance to deploy a ten-year-old jack-up rig at its offshore field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
Inyanga Marine Energy Group’s HydroWing Tidal Energy Projects has secured a contract for an additional 10 MW of capacity in the UK government’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 7 (AR7) for what will, once fully developed, become the world’s largest tidal energy project. Of note, the U
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Greece’s transmission system operator (TSO) Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) have signed a deal for €1.9 billion financing for the development of an interconnector that will eliminate the electrical isolation of the islands of Kos, Rhodes and Karp
