Cyprus-headquartered marine seismic acquisition services provider SeaBird Exploration and Singapore’s tender-assisted drilling provider Energy Drilling have signed a letter of intent (LoI) to merge into a combined company that would offer diversified offshore oil & gas services. The transaction will
The Greenlink interconnector linking the electricity grids of Ireland and Great Britain has officially entered commercial operation, following more than three years of construction. The start of commercial operations took place on January 29 and was announced by James O’Reilly, Chief Executive Offic
Vattenfall and BASF have signed contracts with EEW Special Pipe Constructions (EEW SPC) and CS Wind Offshore for component supply and with DEME and Jan De Nul for installation services for the Nordlicht 1 and Nordlicht 2 offshore wind farms in Germany. Germany’s EEW SPC will manufacture 112 monopile
Since around 1,500 wells will be due for decommissioning in the UKCS between 2026 and 2030, the UK regulator North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) said that this represents an opportunity for operators to test and adopt new well plugging and abandonment (P&A) technologies to cut costs and improve ef
Norway-based energy data and intelligence company TGS has secured another contract for offshore wind site characterization on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). To remind, TGS reported earlier this week it was set to kick off offshore wind site characterization in the UK in the first quarter of 2025 u
UK’s Forum Energy Technology (FET) has secured a contract to supply a work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) system and a Dynacon launch and recovery system (LARS) to Spanish maritime survey and ROV services operator ACSM. The FET Perry XLX EVO II will be delivered in the third quarter of 2025 t
Norway-headquartered DeepOcean has been awarded a subsea survey contract for the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind projects in Poland, which are jointly developed by Equinor and Polenergia. Under the contract, DeepOcean will carry out geophysical seabed surveys of the export and inter-array cable
Norway-based provider of vessel management services Aurora Offshore, part of the Borealis Group, has taken delivery of the first of three high-end subsea vessels from compatriot operator Sea1 Offshore, former Siem Offshore. A total of 11 vessels are set to transfer to Aurora Offshore as a part of it
Egyptian companies DeepTech, part of MCS Group, and Petroleum Marine Services (PMS) have brought the third and final well into production as part of Phase 10 of the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) gas field development project offshore Egypt. The partners, in charge of the engineering, procurement, in
Poland’s Tele-Fonika Kable (TFK) and the Industrial Development Agency (ARP) have signed a letter of intent to collaborate on the construction of a cable laying vessel (CLV) for the installation and maintenance of subsea cables in offshore wind farms, mainly in the Baltic Sea. On January 28, the two
Norway-based energy data and intelligence company TGS has secured a contract for offshore wind site characterization on the UK continental shelf for a repeat client. According to TGS, the project is set to last around 60 days and will begin in the first quarter of 2025. The Ramform Vanguard will be
The Danish Energy Agency has initiated a public consultation process for the environmental impact report related to the Greensand Future CO2 storage project in the North Sea. The report, prepared by Rambøll on behalf of INEOS E&P, supports the application for Denmark’s first CO2 storage initiative u
The Danish Energy Agency has granted permission to Nord Stream 2 AG to preserve the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea that suffered damage in September 2022 following an explosion. The Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines run from Vyborg, Russia, to Lubmin near Greifswald, Germany, and c
Allseas’ pipelay vessel Lorelay has completed a platform-to-platform pipeline installation in the Caribbean, for the first time ever using the bowstring start-up method, connecting the pipeline start-up head directly to the platform jacket leg. Lorelay kicked off the operations in December 2024, pla
