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Kosmos Energy Cancels Tullow Oil Takeover

Dec 17, 2024

U.S. oil and gas firm Kosmos Energy walked away from its pursuit of West Africa-focused Tullow Oil on Tuesday, without specifying any reason for the decision, prompting a 10% drop in Tullow's shares.Kosmos' announcement comes less than a week…

Prysmian Signs $735M Offshore Wind Connections Deal with French TSO

Dec 17, 2024

Italian cable maker and installation services provider Prysmian has signed a framework agreement with the French transmission system operator (TSO) Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE), to provide subsea cables for grid connection of two offshore wind farms in France…

Expro Teams Up with Petrobras for New Well Flowmeter Tech

Dec 17, 2024

U.S.-based oilfield services provider Expro has signed a technology agreement with Petrobras for the development of a new non-intrusive flowmeter for the optimization of production from oil and gas wells.The technology will provide flow rates and identify flow patterns…

Equinor, Partners Set Up Single Unit for Two UK Offshore Wind Farms

Dec 17, 2024

Norway's Equinor and partners have agreed to join two planned offshore wind projects in Britain into one legal entity, in a move it said would be more cost-effective and help to minimize the environmental impact.The projects are extensions to…

Penta-Ocean Orders Its First CLV to Expand Offshore Wind Service Offering

Dec 17, 2024

Japan-based Penta-Ocean Construction has signed a shipbuilding contract with PaxOcean Group for the construction of a self-propelled large-scale cable laying vessel (CLV), expanding its capabilities from offshore wind turbine construction to power cable laying for the industry…

Fugro Gets Busy at Equinor’s Offshore CO2 Highway

Dec 17, 2024

Fugro has started conducting comprehensive ground investigation for a CO2 highway, off the coast of Belgium, part of a 1,000-kilometer-long planned pipeline by Equinor to transport CO2 between mainland Europe and Norway.Under the contract, Fugro…

Seaway7 Gets Inch Cape Transport and Installation Job

Dec 17, 2024

Seaway7, part of Subsea7 Group, has secured a contract for the transport and installation of pin-pile jacket foundations and transition pieces for the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland.The contract, valued between $150 million and $300 million…

Perenco Wraps Up Acquisition of BP’s Mature Gas Fields Off Trinidad and Tobago

Dec 17, 2024

Perenco has completed the acquisition of BP’s four mature offshore gas fields as well as one underdeveloped field offshore Trinidad and Tobago.The acquired assets include Cashima, Amherstia, Flamboyant & Immortelle offshore gas fields and associated production facilities…

Petrobras Hires Constellation’s Drillship for Work Offshore Brazil

Dec 17, 2024

Offshore drilling contractor Constellation has secured a contract with Petrobras for its ultra-deepwater drillship Amaralina Star, which will operate offshore Brazil, covering remote areas of frontier exploration, such as the Equatorial Margin and Pelotas Basin…

Equinor Makes Oil and Gas Discovery Near Troll Field in North Sea

Dec 17, 2024

Equinor and its partners DNO and Petoro have made an oil and gas discovery west of the Troll field in the North Sea, currently estimated at between 2 and 12 million barrels of oil equivalent.The discovery, made 17 kilometers from the Troll field…

Oil Falls as Chinese Demand Sags, Fed Ponders Rate Cut

Dec 16, 2024

Oil futures slipped from the highest levels in several weeks on Monday on weakness in consumer spending in China, which is the world's largest oil importer, and as investors paused buying ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest rate decision…

France’s Shom Selects Exail’s Drix USV Hydrographic Drone

Dec 16, 2024

The Shom (French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service) has confirmed the acquisition of the DriX H-8 surface hydrographic drone, developed by the French robotics and maritime technologies specialist Exail.The acquisition marks a strategic…

Aker, Aibel Get FEED Contracts for GreenVolt Floating Wind Project

Dec 16, 2024

Floating Energy and Vårgrønn, a joint venture between Plenitude (Eni) and HitecVision, have awarded front-end engineering and design (FEED) contracts to two partnership for the delivery of 560 MW GreenVolt floating wind farm offshore Scotland…

Kongsberg to Work on Six Hybrid CMM's PSVs Bound for Petrobras Ops

Dec 16, 2024

Kongsberg Maritime has signed a contract with Compagnie Maritime Monegasque (CMM) to deliver advanced ship design and technology for six hybrid platform supply vessels (PSVs), with oil spill recovery capacity, which will support Petrobras’ offshore operations…

Expro Lands Contract to Support 52-Well P&A Campaign

Dec 16, 2024

Energy services provider Expro (NYSE: XPRO) has been awarded a contract valued at over $10 million for the provision of a well decommissioning solution in support of the 52-well plug and abandonment (P&A) campaign.The solution combines subsea…

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