Aberdeen News


Balmoral Comtec Expands Workforce Following Rosebank Win

Apr 17, 2024

Balmoral Comtec, a Balmoral Group company and provider of buoyancy, protection and insulation services to the global offshore energy market, has secured a multi-million-pound contract from TechnipFMC to supply more than 600 buoyancy modules for Equinor’s Rosebank project…

Port of Aberdeen Makes Progress on its Strategic Floating Wind Path

Apr 02, 2024

Port of Aberdeen has stepped closer to becoming a strategic hub for floating offshore wind, with its proposed South Harbour upgrade project progressing to Stage 2 ‘priority’ status in the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council’s (SOWEC) strategic investment model…

Vattenfall, ORE Catapult Extend Test & Demo Alliance at Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm

Apr 02, 2024

Vattenfall and Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult have signed a three-year extension on their testing and demonstration collaboration at Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm.The partnership at the 96.8MW offshore wind test and demonstration facility first began in 2019…

Petrofac Gets Contract Extension with ONEgas in UK

Mar 28, 2024

Oilfield services firm Petrofac has secured a contract extension with ONEgas West, a joint venture operated by Shell and Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM).The two-year brownfield Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract award extends the previous three-year contract…

Wave-Powered Subsea Project Completes 12-Month Offshore Test Campaign

Mar 05, 2024

A groundbreaking ocean energy project, which has combined wave power with subsea energy storage to power subsea equipment, has now completed a 12-month test program at sea and will end this spring.The $2.5 million (£2 million) Renewables for…

DOF Secures $13M Offshore Wind Export Cable Repair Job

Feb 22, 2024

Norwegian offshore vessel operator DOF Group has been awarded a contract by an international energy operator to repair an export cable for an offshore wind farm in Southern North Sea.The project includes the retrieval of the damaged cable and termination…

Wood Gets BP’s Topside Modification Job in North Sea

Jan 10, 2024

Engineering company Wood has been awarded a major contract to deliver topside modifications in support of BP’s latest subsea tieback in the UK North Sea.Wood’s operations business will deliver engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning…

Seas of Change: Ports at the Forefront of Energy Transition

Dec 28, 2023

Ports in the UK such as Aberdeen serve as vital gateways to the offshore energy supply chain, providing services from surveying and construction to operational support, maintenance and decommissioning for oil and gas platforms and renewable energy installations all around the UK coastline…

Subsea 7 Extends Contract with BP for North Sea Assets

Dec 19, 2023

Offshore services firm Subsea 7 has extended an existing frame agreement with BP for subsea construction, inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) services across the oil and gas major’s North Sea assets.This is the latest extension since the original frame agreement began in 1998…

TotalEnergies Joins Wave Powered Subsea Project

Dec 10, 2023

TotalEnergies has joined the Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP) collaborative project which is currently powering subsea equipment off the east coast of Orkney, Scotland, with wave power from Mocean Energy and intelligent subsea energy storage from Verlume…

UK Offshore Wind and CCS Colocation Projects Underway

Nov 27, 2023

The UK Offshore Wind and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Colocation Forum, set up to provide strategic coordination of colocation research and activity on the nation’s seabed, has commissioned two research projects. The projects are designed…

NEO Energy Taps Apollo for North Sea FPSO Modifications FEED

Nov 24, 2023

Energy industry advisory and engineering consultancy Apollo has secured a contract thought to be in the region of £2 million from NEO Energy for a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study for the redevelopment project in the Greater Buchan Area…

Odfjell Drilling's Offshore Rig Secures $138M Contract Extension with Equinor

Nov 16, 2023

Norwegian offshore drilling firm Odfjell Drilling said Thursday that Equinor had exercised options for seven wells to extend the use of its Deepsea Aberdeen offshore drilling rig on the Breidablikk field in the North Sea, offshore Norway.The…

Mocean Energy Raises Funds for Blue Star Wave Energy Technology

Nov 13, 2023

Wave energy firm Mocean Energy has raised £2.2 million in new equity alongside a £500,000 grant to drive the commercialization of its wave energy technologies.The equity funds come from existing investors, including Equity Gap, Scottish Enterprise and Old College Capital…

PHOTO: Noble Intrepid Jack-up Rig Arrives in Port of Aberdeen

Oct 17, 2023

The Noble Intrepid jack-up rig arrived Tuesday in Port of Aberdeen's recently inaugurated Aberdeen South Harbour.The Noble Corporation rig arrived for reactivation workscopes and Semco Maritime will provide quayside services throughout its time in port…

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