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Dutch Landscape Shifts with North Sea Wind Farms, Onshore Hubs

Apr 20, 2023

Onshore substations springing up to receive electricity from its burgeoning North Sea wind farms are triggering rapid change in the electrical infrastructure landscape of the Netherlands, renowned for its windmills in an earlier era. After years of lagging behind its European partners…

Trinity E&P Restores Oil Output from Trintes Field after Platform Fire

Apr 20, 2023

Trinidad & Tobago-focused oil company Trinity Exploration & Production has restarted production from the Bravo offshore platform, in the Trintes Field, offshore east coast Trinidad, following a halt caused by a fire incident earlier this month…

OMV Norge Strikes Oil at Eirik Prospect in North Sea, Off Norway

Apr 20, 2023

Oil and gas company OMV Norge has made an oil discovery at the Eirik prospect in the North Sea, off Norway, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said Thursday.The wildcat well 15/2-2 S, in the production license 817, where OMV is operator,  was…

Transocean's Big Move: Adapting Offshore Drilling Vessels to Install Wind Foundations

Apr 19, 2023

Transocean, best known for its deepwater drilling services in the oil and gas space, is looking to expand into the offshore wind sector and is planning to convert some of its offshore drilling vessels into wind foundation installation vessels…

China's CRCC-HCEB Orders Offshore Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

Apr 19, 2023

China's CIMC Raffles has recently secured an order to build a self-propelled offshore wind turbine installation vessel for CRCC Harbour & Channel Engineering Bureau (CRCC-HCEB.)According to CIMC Raffles, the jack-up vessel will be China's most…

Enauta Restarts Production from Atlanta Field's 2HP Well in Brazil

Apr 19, 2023

Brazilian oil company Enauta has resumed production from the 7-ATL-2HP-RJS (“2HP”) well in Atlanta offshore field in Brazil, after a halt in early March.Enauta said this week that production had resumed after the installation of the new pump on the seabed…

Transocean's Backlog Grows to $8.6B with Latest Rig Deals in Norway and Australia

Apr 19, 2023

Deepwater drilling company Transocean has secured $546 million worth of drilling contracts in the past quarter, according to its rig fleet status report issued Tuesday.The contracts were secured by four rigs, the Transocean Enabler, Transocean Encourage…

Baker Hughes Beats Profit Estimate

Apr 19, 2023

Oilfield firm Baker Hughes Co beat first-quarter profit estimates on Wednesday, as stronger oil prices have supported demand for its equipment and services. Global oil futures are currently trading around $83.12 a barrel, down about 22% from…

Huisman to Deliver 3,000mt+ Crane for Havfram Wind's New WTIV

Apr 19, 2023

Dutch crane maker Huisman has won a contract from offshore wind installation contractor Havfram Wind for the delivery of a 3,000mt+ Leg Encircling Crane for its second NG-20000X Wind Turbine Installation Vessel. The crane contract news comes…

BW Offshore Sells BW Athena FPSO

Apr 19, 2023

FPSO-leasing company BW Offshore has completed the sale of its BW Athena FPSO to an undisclosed third party. 'The transaction is part of BW Offshore’s strategy to transition to floating energy infrastructure investments. The sale of the FPSO…

Kistos Expands into Norway with Deal to Acquire Mime Petroleum

Apr 19, 2023

Investment firm Kistos said Wednesday it had reached a conditional agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Norway-based oil firm Mime Petroleum A.S. from Mime Petroleum S.a.r.l.Mime holds a 10% interest in the Balder joint venture…

Norway's March Gas Output Drops, Lags Forecasts

Apr 19, 2023

Norway's natural gas output declined in March from February, missing official forecasts, while oil output grew slightly more than expected, preliminary data from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) showed on Wednesday. Crude oil output was 1…

Orsted and Acciona Team Up to Make Floating Wind More Affordable

Apr 19, 2023

Danish energy firm Orsted and Spanish engineering group Acciona will team up to develop new foundations for floating offshore wind turbines that cut costs and reduce carbon footprints, the two companies said on Wednesday. Floating wind technology…

Saipem's 7th-gen Drillship Santorini Secures Two-year Extension with Eni

Apr 19, 2023

Italian oil company Eni has extended the contract for Saipem's 7th-generation Santorini drillship for two years, starting in August 2023.According to Saipem, the extension is worth approximately 280 million dollars. 'To this amount will be added…

BW Offshore Secures Short-term Extension for Abo FPSO in Nigerian Waters

Apr 18, 2023

Oslo-listed FPSO leasing firm BW Offshore has signed a short-term extension for the Abo FPSO with Nigerian Agip Exploration Ltd, a subsidiary of Italy's Eni.The contract extension is, according to BW Offshore, until October 15, 2023, at the latest…

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