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Hornbeck Offshore Eyes U.S. Offshore Wind Work with OSV-to-SOV Conversion Project

Jul 12, 2023

U.S. offshore vessel owner Hornbeck Offshore Services, best known for its offshore oil and gas support vessel services, is looking at business opportunities in the growing U.S. offshore wind sector as well as in offshore accommodation services in the oil and gas area…

Germany Tells UN: Nord Stream Inquiry Found Subsea Explosive Traces on Yacht

Jul 12, 2023

Germany found traces of subsea explosives in samples taken from a yacht that it suspects 'may have been used to transport the explosives' to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, it told the U.N. Security Council in a letter with Sweden and Denmark…

Equinor's Mongstad Refinery Reduces Output after Lightning Strike

Jul 12, 2023

Equinor has evacuated some staff and reduced output at its Mongstad oil refinery on Norway's west coast after a lightning strike near the plant disrupted power supplies, it said on Wednesday.Mongstad is Equinor's largest refinery with a crude oil and condensate distillation capacity of 226…

Vattenfall Gets Production License for Two Wind Farms Offshore Denmark

Jul 12, 2023

The Danish Energy Agency has granted Swedish utility Vattenfall a license to produce electricity from two offshore wind farms on Denmark's west coast, it said on Wednesday.Vattenfall has said previously it aimed to start production from the two wind farms…

TDI-Brooks Develops Tool for Enhanced Soil Testing

Jul 12, 2023

TDI-Brooks, a company specializing in geotechnical and offshore survey projects, said Wednesday it had developed and tested a new instrument called the Auto-Minivane.  'The Auto-Minivane instrument is a self-contained, stand-alone miniature vane shear testing device that can be used in a 0…

North Star Welcomes Caspar Blum as European Renewables Lead

Jul 12, 2023

UK-based offshore vessel operator North Star has appointed Caspar Blum to the newly created role of European renewables lead. Based in Hamburg, at the Hanseatic Trade Center at the Am Sandtorkai 74 building, he will be the main focal point for the business within the region…

Azerbaijan Oil Output Declines 8% to 15.2 mln metric Tons in Jan-June

Jul 12, 2023

Azerbaijan's oil output was at 15.2 million metric tons between January and June, country's, energy minister Parviz Shahbazov said on Wednesday on Twitter, a decline of 8% from the year-earlier period.Production of oil in Azerbaijan has been…

Tseven Elise MOPU Starts Gas Production at Bayan Offshore Field in Malaysia

Jul 12, 2023

Gas production has started via Tanjung Offshore Services' Tseven Elise Mobile Offshore Production Unit (MOPU) at Petronas Carigali's Bayan field. The news was shared Wednesday by T7 Global, a parent company of Tanjung Offshore Services.In 2020…

Shell's North Sea Discovery May Be Twice as Big as Initially Assumed, Partner Says

Jul 12, 2023

Oil and gas company Deltic Energy Plc on Wednesday announced a significant increase in the estimated oil and gas resources for Shell's Pensacola discovery in the UK North Sea, with the analysis revealing nearly double the initial expectations…

Mexico's Pemex to Lose Some 100,000 bpd of Crude this Month after Deadly Platform Fire

Jul 12, 2023

Mexico's state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos will see its crude output reduced by some 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) until the beginning of August after a massive fire on Friday at an offshore platform, a top company source said.The reduced production implies that…

No Hydrocarbons at Zhenis Offshore Project, KazMunayGas says

Jul 12, 2023

Kazakhstan's state energy company KazMunayGas KMGZ.KZ said on Tuesday that exploration drilling showed no hydrocarbons at the offshore Caspian Sea project Zhenis where it has been jointly working with Russian oil producer Lukoil LKOH.MM.Interfax news agency said…

Carnelian Backs Alta Mar Energy's Offshore Oil & Gas Ventures in the Gulf of Mexico

Jul 11, 2023

Alta Mar Energy, an upstream company focused on non-operated oil and gas investments in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, on Tuesday announced the closing of an equity commitment from investment funds managed by Carnelian Energy Capital Management, L…

Global Energy Demand to Rise 23% by 2045, OPEC Says

Jul 11, 2023

Global demand for all forms of energy is forecast to rise by 23% through 2045, OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais told a Nigerian oil and gas conference on Tuesday. Oil executives and officials from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting…

Carbon Storage: Vår Energi Acquires Feistein CCS

Jul 11, 2023

Norwegian offshore oil and gas producing firm Vår Energi has acquired Feistein CCS – a company specializing in maturing large-scale, cost-efficient CO2 storage opportunities, in a push to accelerate decarbonisation efforts through carbon storage…

Noble Corp. Wins $49M Drillship Contract Extension in Malaysia

Jul 11, 2023

Offshore drilling firm Noble Corporation said Tuesday that Shell's Malaysian subsidiaries Sarawak Shell Berhad and Sabah Shell Petroleum Co Ltd (SSB/SSPC) had exercised three one-well options on the current Noble Viking drillship contract in Malaysia…

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