
Italy’s Fratelli Cosulich Group has made its official entrance into the LNG bunkering market with the order for the construction of an LNG bunkering vessel. The announcement confirms market rumors that have emerged earlier this year hinting the company was diversifying its operations with a foray in

Hutchison Ports Netherlands B.V., a subsidiary of Hutchison Ports, has signed an agreement to acquire the Rotterdam container terminal APM Terminals Rotterdam (APMTR) from APMT. APMTR is located adjacent to Hutchison Ports’ existing ECT Delta terminal in the Maasvlakte area of Europe’s largest port.

Engineering and services group Bilfinger has been hired by oil major Total for inspection services on its assets offshore Denmark.

Petrofac has secured a contract with BP to develop operational procedures for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project in Mauritania and Senegal.

The Dutch government has granted a consortium that includes oil majors Shell and ExxonMobil around $2.4 billion in subsidies for what will be one of the largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the world.

Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor has exercised one additional well for the Odfjell Drilling-owned Deepsea Atlantic rig.

Harbour Energy has drilled a dry exploration well on the Ilder prospect off Norway, ending a two-well campaign with disappointing results.

Swedish-based Alfa Laval will acquire StormGeo, a Bergen-based developer of weather intelligence software and decision support services, as part of a push to accelerate its digital services offering and decarbonization tools portfolio. The purchase price amounts to approximately MNOK 3,630 ( $442 mi

Vantage Drilling has been awarded several new contracts, which will see its rigs operate in South East Asia, Middle East, and Africa.

Archer has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire DeepWell based on an enterprise value of NOK 177 million.

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) is offering to slash the compensation bill for Ever Given’s March grounding in the waterway from $900 million to $600 million, according to the canal’s chairman Osama Rabie. While speaking to a local television channel MBC Masr, Rabie is quoted as saying by Bloomberg,

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South Korean shipping heavyweight HMM is considering new orders, including those for 13,000 TEU-class containerships, the company confirmed to Offshore Energy. The comment was made in the context of market rumors that HMM was in talks with compatriot yards on a potential order for a dozen 13,000 TEU

A Spanish-Japanese company has unveiled plans for a 500 MW floating wind farm in the North East of Scotland and is now looking for a financial partner to develop and build the project. The company, with head offices in Madrid and Tokyo, announced on 5 May that it had begun the process of searching f