Norway’s energy data and intelligence company TGS has secured an extension to a multi-year ocean bottom node (OBN) acquisition contract in the Gulf of America. The contract has been extended for an additional three-year duration, with a “major producer in the Gulf of America”, TGS said. Kristian Joh
Dubai-based offshore vessel operator Astro Offshore, an Adani Group company, has enlarged its fleet with a new multipurpose support vessel (MPSV). This addition is described as the largest vessel in the firm’s fleet.
U.S.-based Pacifico Energy has received a site survey license for a 500 MW offshore wind project in Ba Ria–Vung Tau, offshore Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The license, granted by Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAE), allows the company to carry out site survey assessment activities
Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has signed a strategic agreement with the Republic of Equatorial Guinea for the acquisition, processing, reprocessing and promotion of seismic and geophysical data across the country’s offshore basins. TGS announced on April 16 that it will deliver
Dutch Fugro has opened a new remotely operated vehicle (ROV) test pool in Singapore, which will help its teams identify and resolve technical issues early, validate performance against design requirements, and optimize procedures before mobilization. According to Fugro, the facility provides a contr
LD TravOcean, a subsidiary of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LD Armateurs), has acquired the DP2 multipurpose support vessel SIDDIS Mariner, which will be renamed TVO Mariner and support the company’s operations across several sectors, including offshore wind. The vessel is already familiar to LD TravOcea
Aberdeen-headquartered Mermaid Subsea Services (UK) has further extended its contract with the subsea support vessel Island Valiant, which it has used for North Sea operations for the last three years. Mermaid Subsea Services began using the 93.4-meter-long vessel in 2024 for well plug & abandonment
DeepOcean has performed an inspection and 3D scanning of subsea infrastructure in a single operation rather than as two separate ones as typically done, at an offshore field in Senegal operated by Woodside Energy. DeepOcean has completed a full-field baseline subsea survey and a full 3D scan simulta
Saipem has secured two new offshore contracts with Saudi Arabia’s Aramco, worth approximately $400 million, adding to the $500 million award announced in February for the same project. Under the contract release purchase order (CRPO) reported two months ago, Saipem’s scope of work includes the engin
Four offshore energy support vessels (OESVs) being built in China for Norwegian offshore services provider Sea1 Offshore will sport lights from Glamox, with the first delivery to take place this month. Sea1 Offshore placed the order for the first two OESVs with Cosco Shipping in November 2024, revea
On a mission to support carbon capture and storage (CCS), Metropolitan CCS, a joint venture (JV) between Inpex Corporation and Kanto Natural Gas Development, has secured the green light from Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry to undertake exploratory drilling offshore Kujukuri along the
Norway’s AF Gruppen is acquiring Aberdeen-headquartered Claxton, a provider of technology-driven services and engineering primarily within offshore decommissioning, from the UK-headquartered Acteon Group for an agreed enterprise value of £63.5 million (around €72.8 million). The transaction comprise
Japan’s Toyo Engineering Corporation and OneSubsea, a joint venture established in 2023 by SLB, Aker Solutions, and Subsea7, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore collaboration opportunities in carbon capture and storage (CCS). Initially, the partners plan to explore opportuniti
Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has won another contract to deploy its seismic vessel Ramform Vanguard for an offshore wind site characterization campaign in Europe. Under the contract that has a duration of approximately one and a half months, Ramform Vanguard will commence data
