
Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has held a naming ceremony for a newbuild liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, which is the third one to get its name at China’s shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding since September 2024, as part of QatarEnergy’s historic LNG shipbuilding program.

Malaysia’s state-owned energy giant Petronas has signed production sharing contracts (PSCs) with multiple partners for three discovered resource opportunities (DRO) clusters and one exploration block as part of the Malaysia Bid Round (MBR) 2024.

Golden Ocean Group (GOGL) has taken delivery of the final environmentally-friendly 85,000 dwt Kamsarmax bulk carrier from CSSC Tianjin Shipyard, a subsidiary of China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC).

Collaboration between Belgium and Oman has been strengthened with a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the Belgian Hydrogen Council and Hydrom.

Noble Corporation has secured further work for two floaters in Nigeria with France’s TotalEnergies and in the UK with TAQA while one of its jack-up rigs also got more work in Britain with BP. However, Inpex has decided to break off the deal in Australia for one of the rig owner’s floaters.

PRIO has expanded its footprint off the coast of Brazil by acquiring non-operated interests of two Chinese players in a field offshore Rio de Janeiro, said to be Equinor’s largest operated field outside Norway.

The UK-based classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) has shared the rationale behind granting an approval in principle (AiP) to French technological containment specialist Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) for its 200,000 cubic meters (cbm) liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier concept.

TechnipFMC has put the first equipment part of a subsea production system in place for an oil development at the Stabroek block off the coast of Guyana, which ExxonMobil Guyana Limited, a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered energy giant ExxonMobil, operates.

KN Energies has taken possession of a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) working at its LNG terminal on Lithuania’s Kiaulės Nugara Island.

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has taken steps to set the stage for the next oil and gas leasing round to be held for offshore acreage in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) by revealing a draft programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS) for which it is seeking public comments.

While compliance with upcoming regulations will be expensive, applying certain strategies and measures can significantly reduce the cost, according to a new white paper from classification society DNV.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the U.S.-based marine energy company C-Power a patent for its SeaRAY ocean energy converter. According to C-Power, the patent, which stems from a customer-driven design process, validates the SeaRAY technology as a unique innovation in the ocean energ

TGS has won a new deal in South Atlantic and joined forces with Blue River Analytics, creators of the Analytics for Energy (A4E) Suite on the Spotfire platform, to optimize well and production data analysis.

Sembcorp Fuels, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore’s Sembcorp Industries, has signed a long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with the Singaporean branch of U.S.-headquartered energy giant Chevron.