Australia conditionally approved on Wednesday a request by Woodside Energy to extend until 2070 the life of its North West Shelf gas plant, following a six-year review dogged by delays, appeals and backlash from green groups.The facility on…
Equinor has extended a partial outage at Norway's Troll natural gas field until May 31 due to a compressor failure, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday, pushing European gas prices higher.Norway in 2022 overtook Russia as Europe's…
The German transmission system operator GASCADE and U.K.’s National Gas have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the feasibility to establish a hydrogen corridor between the UK and Germany in the North Sea through an offshore pipeline interconnection…
Danish offshore wind installation firm Cadeler has agreed acquire the Boqiang 3060, a newly-constructed jack-up wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), from Shanghai Boqiang Heavy Industry Group.The acquisition will enhance Cadeler’s capacity…
Ocean services provider DeepOcean has acquired Shelf Subsea, creating a ‘global subsea services player’ with an extensive portfolio of solutions, now also covering the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions.DeepOcean has acquired 100% of the shares in Shelf Subsea…
U.K. oil and gas company Ithaca Energy has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Spirit Energy, increasing its stake for 46.25% in the Cygnus gas field for $154 million.The transaction, which is subject to NSTA consent, will increase Ithaca Energy's operated interest in Cygnus field to 85%…
Marlink published its Security Operations Center (SOC) report for the second half of 2024, and the news for maritime is not particularly good.The report finds that cybercriminals targeting maritime have streamlined their tactics, enhanced their…
Empire Offshore Wind, a subsidiary of Equinor, has been informed by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) that the stop work order has been lifted for the Empire Wind project, allowing construction activities to resume…
Denmark will launch offshore wind tenders with a capacity of three gigawatt (GW), enough to power three million homes, its energy ministry said on Monday, offering subsidies to developers of up to 55.2 billion Danish crowns ($8.32 billion).The…
STATS Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui & Co, has developed mechanical pipe connectors, aimed at addressing increased demand in the Norwegian oil and gas sector.Titanium is better suited to high-stress corrosive environments found in…
INEOS and Royal Wagenborg have launch and named the first European built offshore CO2 carrier for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, marking a major for Project Greensand and CCS schemes across the EU.The CO2 carrier has been named Carbon…
Equinor Low Carbon Solutions (Equinor) has drilled two appraisal wells in the North Sea which indicate that the reservoir is suitable for injection and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).The wells, 32/7-1 and 32/4-4, were drilled in the North Sea about 20 kilometers east of the Troll A platform…
Danish vessel owner ESVAGT and South Korean shipping firm KMC Line have signed an agreement to establish a new joint venture KESTO, dedicated to the growing South Korean offshore wind market.Through a joint venture partnership with KMC Line…
Britain has more than doubled funding available under a scheme seeking to spur investment in offshore wind projects to 544 million pounds ($721.78 million), after higher than expected demand, the government said on Friday.The country has put…
Norway offered 76 new blocks to explore for oil and gas in the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea on Friday in a so-called APA licensing round, an annual event awarding acreage in mature parts of the continental shelf, the energy ministry said…
