Technology group ABB has secured a contract with Aker Solutions to deliver the main electrical, automation and safety systems for the Northern Lights project, the transport and storage component of Norway’s Longship project for establishing full-scale CO2 capture, transport and storage facilities. N
UK-based subsea services company Modus has chartered the multi-purpose offshore support vessel VOS Sweet from Vroon Offshore Services. The vessel has been chartered to execute a contract for pipeline inspection work in the Dutch North Sea and will be mobilized from the Modus Middlesbrough Marine Bas
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has issued a class notation ‘SUSTAIN-1’ to the DP3 subsea operations vessel (SOV) Southern Star owned by Tasik Subsea and managed by Thome Offshore. ‘SUSTAIN-1’ is an environmental sustainability notation for vessels performing beyond the standard Marpol and oth
DOF Subsea has secured the extension of four PIDF contracts with Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras. The extensions will demand a fleet of at least three vessels operating for 18 months in direct continuation to the original schedule, performing flexible pipelines, risers and subsea equipment ins
Delek’s Ithaca Energy has picked Well-Safe Solutions to undertake well decommissioning operations in the North Sea.
North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has developed a new screening tool to help maximise the repurposing of oil and gas infrastructure for energy transition projects. It is believed that repurposing can make a huge contribution to the UK’s drive to net-zero, potentially generating multibillion-poun
The EuroAsia Interconnector electricity link, connecting Israel, Cyprus and Greece, will help reduce the European Union’s energy dependence on Russia, according to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. During a recent Honorary Doctorate degree ceremony at the Ben Gurion University of t
PGS has won a “significant” acquisition contract comprising several 4D surveys by an international oil company offshore West Africa. The acquisition is scheduled to start in early November and is expected to be complete in early May 2023. “We are very pleased with this contract award, which secures
Subsea geotechnical services provider Bluefield Geoservices is expanding its operations in the US with the latest export cable route site investigation for an undisclosed ‘major’ offshore wind project offshore the Northeast US. As part of the project, Bluefield will execute in situ cone penetration
Technical acceptance of the first stage of the gas compressor station expansion in Odolanów, Poland, for the Baltic Pipe has been completed, according to the project’s social media update. This part of the project included two compressor units with accompanying infrastructure and construction object
Neptune Energy has teamed up with ExxonMobil, Rosewood and EBN for the development of a CCS project in the Dutch sector of the North Sea.
Magseis Fairfield has received a conditional award of an ocean bottom node (OBN) contract in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico from a repeat customer. The initial survey is scheduled to be conducted with Magseis Fairfield’s ZXPLR technology and is expected to take approximately three months. The agreemen
A joint venture between KBR and SOCAR has been awarded a FEED contract by BP for the Shah Deniz Alpha platform in Azerbaijan.
Oceaneering International Sevices has placed an order for plug and abandonment (P&A) equipment and services from Plexus Holdings to support the first joint decommissioning campaign in the Dutch sector of the North Sea.
