Horizon Geosciences has started geotechnical investigations at the Kitty Hawk offshore wind project off North Carolina, U.S. The six-week work will be carried out by Kommandor Susan and will consist of geotechnical borehole drilling and sampling. In May 2017, Avangrid Renewables secured the rights t
Oscilla Power has secured $1.1 million from the US Department of Energy as part of the Phase II SBIR award. This award should help the Seattle-based company develop a novel underwater energy storage technology and investigate the best practice on connecting large-scale farms of ocean wave energy dev
The first of the three Offshore Transformer Modules (OTMs), ME OSP 3, has been installed at the 950 MW Moray East wind farm offshore Scotland. Siemens Energy shipped out the wind farm’s first OTM, ME OSP 2, for offshore installation on 30 June. This OTM will be installed later this week, a spokesper
Crew members kidnapped in early July in a pirate attack on the BW Offshore-owned FPSO Sendje Berge have been released.
Brazilian state-owned oil firm Petrobras has approved the hibernation of the Merluza platform located in the shallow-water Santos Basin offshore Brazil.
Pacific Drilling has been awarded a contract by Murphy Oil for ten firm wells for its drillship Pacific Sharav in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
Brazilian oil company Petrobras has started the binding phase for the sale of its entire stake in the shallow water Tartaruga field, located in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin offshore Brazil.
South Korean shipping major HMM has signed a sales and purchase agreement with French counterpart CMA CGM for the sale of its 50 per cent stake minus one share in Total Terminal International Algeciras (TTI Algeciras).
Norway’s maritime-oriented technology company Klaveness Digital has introduced a new Supply Chain Analytics division aimed at accelerating digitalization throughout the dry bulk industry.
The board of directors of Equinor has appointed Anders Opedal as the new president and CEO of Equinor from 2 November 2020.
US engineering firm Bechtel said it appointed Paul Marsden as president of the company’s oil, gas and chemicals business. Marsden will succeed Alasdair Cathcart, who is stepping down after 31 years at Bechtel. He will assume his position on September 8. Marsden’s experience includes serving in senio
Kuwait Petroleum’s unit KIPIC said two sub-contractors died in an accident on Saturday at its LNG plant under construction in Al-Zour. KIPIC said in a statement it would undertake all the necessary measures to investigate the incident. The company did not provide any additional information. State-ow
The Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm produced first power early in the morning on 7 August, the Blauwwind consortium informs. “This marks a key milestone in the construction of the project as the first turbine is now generating power and delivering renewable electricity into the Dutch grid”, the
Norwegian vessel owner Solstad Offshore has won several extensions in Brazil with oil majors Total and Equinor.
