Chinese oil and gas company CNOOC Limited has commissioned what is said to be China’s first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project. The CCS project, officially commissioned on 1 June, is an auxiliary part of the Enping 15-1 oilfield development and can store more than 1.5 mi
Equinor has completed the drilling of an exploration well near the Troll field in the Norwegian North Sea but failed to find hydrocarbons.
Offshore drilling contractor Odfjell Drilling has confirmed a new contract for a rig it manages on behalf of CIMC Offshore.
Petrobras has kicked off production from a new FPSO, deployed in the pre-salt Santos Basin offshore Brazil.
Ocean Winds, a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Engie, has filed an application for a concession with the Italian authorities for a site located some 50 kilometres off the Sicilian coast, where the developer wants to build a floating wind farm. According to a document published for public co
Woodside has handed out deals to multiple players for the decommissioning of subsea infrastructure at several oil & gas fields off Australia.
Swiss-based equipment provider ABB has unveiled a new concept of electric propulsion system to boost efficiency in the shipping industry.
50Hertz has completed the pull-in of two 220 kV subsea cable systems into Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle platform. The two 220 kV subsea cable systems were previously laid on the seabed in a safe area next to the destination of the substation platform. In February of this year, the substation platform was
Equinor has received consent from Norway’s regulator to use Transocean’s semi-submersible rig for drilling at a block in the North Sea.
Norwegian seismic company PGS has secured industry pre-funding for another “large” multi-season MultiClient survey in the Norwegian Sea. The first phase of the survey will be acquired this year by the seismic vessel Ramform Hyperion. Acquisition is expected to start in late June and have a duration
Boskalis is getting ready to start a thorough inspection of a rapidly decaying FSO vessel moored off the Red Sea coast of Yemen.
French energy major TotalEnergies and Belgian green hydrogen company Tree Energy Solutions (TES) have joined forces to study and develop a large-scale production unit in the United States (US) for e-natural gas (e-NG), a synthetic gas produced from renewable hydrogen and CO2. The project, expected t
Challenger Energy has started a farm-out process for a shallow water exploration block located offshore Uruguay.
Jan De Nul has secured a contract with Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution to deliver a new interconnector project in Scotland. Under the contract signed in November 2022, Jan De Nul will supply and install a new Pentland Firth interconnector this summer that will link mai
