An advanced underwater vehicle (AUV), obtained by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD), a government agency responsible for managing and overseeing Norway’s offshore energy and subsurface resources, has embarked on its first assignment to map subsea areas in the northern Norwegian Sea.
Vantage Drilling, a Bermuda-exempt offshore drilling contractor, has secured its shareholders’ blessing for its proposed business combination with Eldorado Drilling, an offshore drilling player backed by a group of well-known Norwegian investors.
The UK’s newest subsea trials site has made waves with a multi-robot demonstration, highlighting its potential to accelerate marine autonomy and ocean sensing. The Smart Sound Connect Subsurface (SSCS) project — part of Plymouth’s growing marine innovation hub — showcased cutting-edge underwater tes
Norwegian oil and gas operators, Equinor and Aker BP, have each obtained drilling permits for operations in the North Sea on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), which will be conducted with semi-submersible rigs owned by COSL Drilling Europe and Saipem.
A regulatory notice over a missed drilling deadline has placed a production sharing contract (PSC) for a gas asset under threat unless SundaGas Banda Unipessoal, a wholly owned subsidiary of the UK-based and AIM-listed Sunda Energy, shows proof that a rig has been booked to undertake the appraisal p
Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor has unveiled a development concept for a project that aims to combine several discoveries in the North Sea into a single project, with estimated gross resources of approximately 240 million barrels of oil equivalent, making it one of the largest early-phase
Norwegian oil and gas player Vår Energi and its partner, Kistos Energy, have rubberstamped a final investment decision (FID) to develop another multi-well addition to an oil project in the North Sea next year, augmenting oil output off the coast of Norway.
Singapore-based OMS Group, a neutral and integrated digital infrastructure service provider, has provided insight into the ongoing sea acceptance tests (SAT) for its long-range uncrewed surface vessel (USV), currently being conducted off the South of France. Upon mobilization, the unit will support
A multi-client 3D seismic survey is on the agenda at one of the frontier regions in Brazilian waters, with Norway’s energy data and intelligence company TGS and its joint venture (JV) partner, U.S.-headquartered SLB, at the helm of the campaign that will help boost the exploration momentum in the So
Norwegian ocean services provider DeepOcean has been hired by the UK-headquartered energy giant BP to lend a hand in the decommissioning and recycling of subsea equipment from a site where a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) worked at the operator’s field located West of Shetland,
UK-based classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) has given its stamp of approval for a 100% hydrogen-fuelled, spark-ignited marine engine developed by BeHydro, a joint venture between CMB.TECH and Anglo Belgian Corporation (ABC) Engines, focusing on hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines.
Venture Global, an American producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) sourced from North American basins, has signed on the dotted line with EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW), a German energy player, to send additional long-term U.S. LNG supply to Germany, aside from the volumes included in the du
Norwegian oil and gas player Vår Energi has embarked on a mission to high-grade its portfolio on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) to strengthen long-term value creation through deals that encompass the acquisition of Pandion Energy’s portfolio, a swap agreement with DNO Norge, a subsidiary of D
ExxonMobil South Africa LNG, an affiliate of U.S.-headquartered energy heavyweight ExxonMobil, has penned a heads of agreement (HoA) with a strategic partnership between Vopak Terminal Durban and Transnet Pipelines to advance the development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at the Po
