Canada’s oil and gas player Trillion Energy has discovered an ‘abundance of gas pay’ with the fifth well in its multi-well program at a natural gas field in the Black Sea off Türkiye. The Bayhanli 2 well was spud on 5 April at the East Ayazli Tripod on the SASB gas field with the Uranus rig, which w
Ocean Winds has signed a contract with the Australian company Sea Global and its Polish subcontractor PGNiG Gazoprojekt to prepare design documentation and obtain a building permit for offshore export cables for the BC-Wind offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea. The scope of the contract cover
Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has discovered hydrocarbons in an exploratory well in the Aram block in the Santos Basin pre-salt offshore Brazil. The 3-BRSA-1387D-SPS well is located 260 kilometers from the city of Santos-SP, at a water depth of 1,979 meters. According to Petrobra
UK-based HVDC cable company XLCC has completed model testing on its new cable laying vessel (CLV) that was announced last year and which will be deployed in the renewable energy sector. The vessel will feature battery energy storage systems and shore power to reduce fuel consumption and has been des
Canada-based oil and gas company Valeura Energy has reached a production milestone from an oil field in the Gulf of Thailand, marking it as a “remarkable achievement”. Valeura Energy announced that as of 15 May, the Jasmine oil field had produced its 90 millionth barrel of oil, greatly exceeding the
Australian oil and gas company Beach Energy has connected two new wells to its Otway Basin development, now delivering additional gas into the Australian East Coast gas market. At the start of 2022, Beach Energy confirmed that the first two wells of its offshore Otway Basin campaign – Geographe 4 an
A geophysical and UXO survey is set to begin at the end of this month for an interconnector that will link the UK and Germany for the first time. Geociencias y Exploraciones Marítimas (GEM) will perform a survey of the route for the installation of the NeuConnect Interconnector, nominally 705 kilome
Egypt has made a step towards establishing the country’s first green methanol production project which will include investments of about $450 million and produce 40,000 tons of green methanol per year. The joint development agreement for this project was signed on 14 May by Egypt’s Alexandria Nation
Netherlands-headquartered SBM Offshore has awarded Modern American Recycling Services Europe (M.A.R.S.) with a contract for dismantling and green recycling of one of its FPSOs. The contract includes engineering, preparation, dismantling and green recycling of SBM Offshore’s FPSO Capixaba in Brazil.
Helix Energy Solutions’ semi-submersible vessel Q7000 has arrived at Port Taranaki in New Zealand to commence the third phase of a field decommissioning project. Q7000, which arrived at the port on 16 May, will plug and abandon the wells across the Tui field as part of Phase 3 of decommissioning act
Australia’s oil and gas company Karoon Energy has restarted production from assets connected to a floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel offshore Brazil, following maintenance work. Karoon shut-in Baúna production, including from the Patola field, on 28 March due to a loss of co
Shelf Drilling has boosted its backlog further during the first quarter of 2023, despite experiencing a sequential decline in revenue.
Belgium-based Marlinks has secured its first major contract in Taiwan for the cable health monitoring services of the export and inter-array cables of the 1,044 MW Hai Long offshore wind farm. The contract awarded covers the design, supply, installation, commissioning of monitoring hardware, and ong
BSEE has examined the circumstances surrounding four recent high-potential, near-miss tagline entanglements during offshore operations.
