The Danish Energy Agency (DEA), responsible for tasks linked to energy production, supply, and consumption, alongside Denmark’s efforts to cut its carbon footprint, has given its blessing for four permits to change hands, leaving the portfolio of Germany’s Wintershall Dea to become part of hydrocarb
Norway’s Østensjø Rederi has entrusted the construction of its new ocean energy support vessel (OESV) to Astilleros Gondon, a Spanish shipyard.
Ocean Installer, part of the Moreld Group, has been hired to handle a subsea tie-back project to an existing floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel operating in the North Sea, as part of a new frame agreement for offshore construction.
Scotland-headquartered engineering and consulting business John Wood Group (Wood) is advancing three carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), which combined can store up to 21 million tonnes of CO2 annually, the equivalent of nearly half of Norway’s total C
With the assistance of the Norwegian seismic company TGS, the Government of Liberia, through the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA), has initiated a direct negotiation licensing round featuring 29 offshore blocks in the Liberia and Harper Basins. TGS supports this effort by providing a p
Well-Safe Solutions has hit a new saturation diving milestone in the UK waters with one of its rigs, which is said to be the only semi-submersible in the North Sea with saturation dive spread capability.
A cable-laying vessel (CLV), which Norway’s ship designer and shipbuilder VARD is constructing for Denmark’s subsea specialist NCT Offshore, has come to Norwegian waters.
With major regulatory approval in place, the path has been cleared for the next phase of development for a project that will harness and store renewable energy from Australia and transmit it to Singapore via a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system. The Australia-Asia Power Link (AAP
Dutch offshore services giant Boskalis has expanded its fleet with the addition of a DP2 vessel for offshore geophysical and geotechnical surveys, which the company describes as relatively new and enormously multifunctional. The Horizon Zenith vessel is deployed by Boskalis’ UAE-headquartered subsid
InterConnect Malta (ICM), a government entity responsible for Malta’s energy interconnection projects with Italy and offshore renewable energy, has appointed Fugro Italia to survey two areas which the Maltese government plans to put out to tender for floating wind development. Fugro has now started
Norway’s marine geoscience and technology player Shearwater GeoServices has secured a contract extension of the “major” deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) survey off the coast of India. Shearwater has extended its project with India’s government-owned energy giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONG
Japan-headquartered Sumitomo Electric Industries has completed all onshore and offshore cable installation work for the Greenlink Interconnector between Ireland and the UK, with trial operations expected in the coming months. The project included the manufacture and installation of onshore HVDC cros
Dutch geo-data specialist, Fugro, has been awarded a long-term contract to provide construction support to its compatriot Van Oord for offshore wind farms across Europe for three years, with an option to extend. Under the contract, multiple remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems, construction equip
The C-Horizon vessel is set to soon kick off shallow water debris removal, boulder relocation and pre-lay grapnel run activity in UK waters to clear the proposed cable route for the first direct energy link between the UK and Germany. The 1.4 GW NeuConnect interconnector will see the construction of
