Norway’s Kongsberg Discovery has completed a multi-week fully autonomous mission with its long-range autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) HUGIN Endurance, said to have proven shore-to-shore operational capability. The mission, carried out at depths ranging from 50 to 3,400 meters and meeting the 1,20
Houston-based marine robotics company Ocean Infinity has received DNV’s Statement of Compliance for the remotely supported operational concept for the Armada 78 fleet of offshore survey vessels. With this approval, Ocean Infinity said it had become the industry’s first organization to reach the requ
Santos has signed a new mid-term LNG supply contract with Glencore and hammered out a deal for the divestment of a partial stake in an offshore gas project with TIMOR GAP.
ADNOC and ExxonMobil have signed an agreement under which ADNOC will acquire a 35% equity stake in ExxonMobil’s low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia production facility in Baytown, Texas, U.S.
Transocean has picked up a multimillion-dollar contract for one of its drillships off the coast of India.
The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has received applications from six companies for three CO2 storage areas on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) as part of the seventh call for CO2 storage in the area. Aker BP, Equinor Low Carbon Solutions, Harbour Energy Norge, Horisont Energi, Storegga Norge and
Subsea infrastructure is critical to the energy security in Europe and with the world not looking so bright there is a real urgency to get something going to protect this infrastructure, but the solution is not easy to find, panelists said at a discussion on seabed security organized by IRO, the Ass
Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder VARD has kicked off the construction of its third cable-laying vessel (CLV) for Italian cabling giant Prysmian with a steel-cutting ceremony at its shipyard in Tulcea, Romania. According to VARD, the new vessel is the evolution of the Leonardo da Vinci / Monna
Inpex, Nippon Steel and Kanto Natural Gas Development have concluded a consignment contract with JOGMEC regarding the Metropolitan area CCS project.
U.S.-headquartered offshore energy services provider Helix Energy Solutions has secured a new multi-year contract with Shell Offshore Inc. to continue providing well intervention services in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. As part of the contract set to start in 2025, Helix will provide an increased minimu
Saipem has landed a new set of contract awards for work at oil and gas fields off the coast of Saudi Arabia, which the Saudi energy giant Aramco operates.
Ocean Energy Europe (OEE), a network of ocean energy professionals, has appointed two new members to its Board of Directors. One appointee comes from Spiralis Energy, a London-based tidal energy start-up, and the other from EDF, a French energy giant. Emmanuel Bouyge, Director of Innovation Project
The UK government has unveiled the results of Allocation Round 6 (AR6) of the contracts for difference (CfD) renewable auction, with six projects across five sites securing contracts to deliver 28 MW of tidal stream capacity at a rate of £172/MWh (approximately $225/Mwh). AR6 marks the third consecu
Marine classification society, Lloyd’s Register, has been contracted by Australian wave energy developer, Carnegie Clean Energy, to begin the certification process for CETO, a fully submerged point absorber wave energy converter (WEC). Lloyd’s Register will assess Carnegie’s CETO WEC according to IE
