
Offshore Energy continues with its new In focus weekly feature, spotlighting the latest energy transition developments, after our first edition went online on 16 April. Following last week’s news on the U.S. oil giant Chevron’s entrance into the offshore wind market and note that the company has not

BW Offshore has decided to recycle its laid-up FPSO Berge Helene despite previous plans to use it on a project development located in Brazil.

Equinor and partners have decided in favour of Troll West electrification and are submitting the plan for development and operation.

Empyrean Energy has awarded a contract to the Australian team of AGR to assist with well planning and engineering for the Jade prospect drilling offshore China.

Equinor and its partners Petoro, Total, Neptune, and Wintershall Dea have decided to develop the Askeladd Vest project off Norway.

In case Romgaz finalizes the takeover of the Neptun Deep project from ExxonMobil, Romania’s OMV Petrom will become the operator.

Shelf Drilling has received a three-year contract for one of its jack-up drilling rigs with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in India.

Talos Energy plans to recomplete its Bulleit well, in the Gulf of Mexico, in the shallower DTR-10 sand and to move away from the MP sand.

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a one-well contract by CGX Resources for the semi-submersible rig Maersk Discoverer for drilling off Guyana.

Chinese oil and gas giant CNOOC Limited recorded a production increase in the first quarter of the year driven by new project start-ups.

Neptune Energy has started drilling operations on four production wells on the Duva field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

Havila Shipping has been awarded a contract from compatriot oil giant Equinor for one of its platform supply vessels (PSVs).

Oil and gas company Providence Resources has terminated its farm-out agreement with SpotOn Energy for the Barryroe project off Ireland.

Rystad Energy has downgraded its peak oil demand forecast to 101.6 million bpd in 2026 as a result of electrification in transport.