The Dutch company Van Oord has introduced a new trencher, Jet-It, to its subsea cable burial fleet. The unit has completed testing in the North Sea and is now ready for deployment. Jet-It joins the company’s two existing trenchers, Dig-It and Deep Dig-It, which use both mechanical cutting and jettin
Colombia’s state-owned oil and gas company Ecopetrol is evaluating the strategy for gas projects in the Southern Caribbean to continue following the decision by the UK-headquartered energy giant Shell to withdraw from its operated offshore assets.
DEMCON Unmanned Systems has carried out inspection tests using one of its uncrewed vessels during a wave energy converter (WEC) trial by The Hague-based Wave Energy Collective (Weco), off the coast of Scheveningen, the Netherlands. According to DEMCON Unmanned Systems, the demonstration aimed to ass
Dutch geo-data specialist Fugro has won a contract to perform surveys for an oil project located off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador being developed by Norwegian state-owned energy firm Equinor. In its financial results for the first quarter of 2025, issued today, April 24, Fugro reported tha
Gen2 Energy and Farsund municipality have signed an agreement under which Gen2 Energy can secure, on a long-term basis, the industrial site Lundevågen Havneområde in Farsund to build a production facility for green hydrogen.
Wave energy developer Eco Wave Power has signed a manufacturing agreement with California-based All-Ways Metal for the production of floaters for its first U.S. wave energy installation at the Port of Los Angeles. All-Ways Metal, a woman-owned fabrication company, is expected to deliver the floaters
International oil & gas company Trident Energy has signed a SaaS license agreement with Enaimco, a Canadian technology company delivering digital solutions for subsea operations, for the provision of digital twin for its subsea assets in Equatorial Guinea. “Trident Energy has been exploring global d
A German consortium consisting of the Institute for Micro Process Engineering and the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the KIT spin-off ICODOS and the Waste Water Department of the City of Mannheim have began operation of a demonstratio
The Surface Engineering & Tribology Laboratory at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has joined the U.S. Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) facility network, expanding developer access to specialized tribology testing for marine energy applications. According to TEAME
Oslo-listed oil and gas E&P player BW Energy has drilled a second appraisal well, confirming the potential of the oil discovery at a field in the Dussafu license off the coast of Gabon, Africa.
French provider of tubular solutions Vallourec has secured a contract with Allseas, described as major, for the supply of line pipes for what is said to be one of the world’s largest deepwater fields. Vallourec said it would supply line pipes for the Búzios 10 offshore project located at the Búzios
Two oil majors, U.S.-based Chevron and France-headquartered TotalEnergies, have brought online a deepwater oil and natural gas project in the Gulf of America, formerly the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
ExxonMobil has put Japan’s MODEC in charge of a new floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit to be deployed on its seventh oil project in the Stabroek block off the coast of Guyana.
A newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship, managed by Ventura Offshore Midco, a subsidiary of the Brazilian deepwater offshore drilling contractor Ventura Offshore, has started its inaugural offshore drilling assignment in Brazilian waters with the South American country’s energy giant Petrobras.
