The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for two wells in the North Sea off Norway.
Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy launched the 25th licensing round, encompassing 136 blocks in the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea off Norway.
Equinor is ready to drill two wells in the North Sea offshore Norway following the receipt of approvals and permits from the Norwegian authorities.
The U.S. government agency Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has held a Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale, yielding more than $120 million in high bids.
Equinor has been served with a notice of order from the country’s offshore safety agency following a serious lifting incident on the Oseberg B platform.
Ithaca Energy is moving forward with its plans to develop the Abigail field, located in the UK North Sea as a subsea tie-back.
The European Commission has seen progress in the safety of offshore oil and gas operations following the implementation of the safety directive.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has approved a number of measures aimed at cutting the shipping sector’s carbon emissions in the next decade. The measures adopted at the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) taking place virtually from 16-20 November included amendments
Classification and technical advisory body ABS has recently published the ‘Guide for Subsea Mining’. The guide details Class requirements for the design, construction, installation as well as survey of mobile offshore mining units. It comes as global interest in resources on the sea floor grows to s
The European Commission has added new yards to the European List of ship recycling facilities suitable for the dismantling of EU-flagged vessels in an environmentally-friendly way. These include two European yards and two more yards in Turkey. “With the addition of these new yards, ship owners of EU
The interim COVID arrangements which have permitted seafarers to serve longer than 11 months on-board ships will end from February 28, 2021, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said. Under the Maritime Labour Convention, the normal maximum period that a seafarer can serve aboard a vessel
Ghana has imposed its terms and conditions for the Italian oil major Eni and domestic explorer Springfield E&P for the unitisation of their adjacent fields.
Trillions of dollars could be misallocated if member states of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) fail to back an industry proposal for a global $5 billion research and development fund in order to de-risk the massive investment needed to decarbonize shipping. The call was made by the Int
Ofgem will open a tender round for the offshore transmission licences for the Moray East and Triton Knoll offshore wind farms on 30 November. The authority issued a notice on 12 November, informing that the projects fulfilled all necessary conditions in accordance with regulation, including the subm
