
Oilfield services provider Petrofac has been awarded a two-year contract extension with Spirit Energy in the North Sea.

Equinor has decided to exercise its option for additional wells in Norway to be drilled by the Odfjell Drilling-owned Deepsea Stavanger rig.

Dutch dredging and maritime services provider Boskalis has acquired a multipurpose DP3 construction support vessel (CSV) to strengthen its activities in the offshore energy industry.

A major tidal energy project offshore Anglesey in Wales will benefit from €37.6 million of funding in what is likely to be the last large grant from the EU’s regional funding program for the scheme.

Decom Engineering has beefed up its board with two new appointments to facilitate further growth and achieve its strategic expansion goals.

ExxonMobil has completed drilling operations on its Glaucus-2 appraisal well off Cyprus, confirming the presence of high-quality gas.

Scotland’s Lerwick Harbour is to be the location of a decommissioning project following the award of a contract to Veolia/Peterson.

Shipping companies Dan-Unity CO2 and Victrol are collaborating to offer end-to-end seaborn CO2 transportation by rivers and sea from mainland Northern Europe to utilisation and storage facilities.

Shell has applied for environmental investigation licences for six offshore wind projects in Brazil with the country’s Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA). The six projects have a total installed capacity of 17 GW. The company submitted an Activity Characterisation Form (FCA)

Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Petroleum has started first gas production from the Pegaga gas field in Block SK 320, offshore Malaysia.

A financial close on the construction of the Greenlink, a 500 MW subsea and underground electricity interconnector that will link Ireland and Great Britain, has been reached.

Three oilfield services providers have opted to suspend future investments and ops in Russia due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

UK’s oil and gas regulator, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has changed its name to reflect its evolving role in the energy transition.

Tullow Oil has completed the pre-emption related to the sale of Occidental’s interests in Ghana fields to Kosmos Energy.