Offshore Drilling Decommissioning News


Guardian to Lead Bullwinkle Platform Decommissioning in US Gulf

Oct 14, 2026

Guardian Decommissioning and Wild Well Control have signed an agreement for the decommissioning of the Bullwinkle offshore platform in Green Canyon Block 65 in the U.S. Gulf, with well abandonment activities scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026…

Lamprell Picks IMI for Offshore Platforms and Jackets Fabrication

Oct 08, 2026

Lamprell has signed an agreement with International Maritime Industries (IMI) to fabricate several offshore structures, including a production platform and jackets, at IMI's Ras Al-Khair facility in Saudi Arabia.The fabrication work forms part of an offshore engineering…

TenneT Joins Subsea Cable Decommissioning Tool Development

Oct 08, 2026

TenneT Germany has joined DEME and Subsea Cable Assets (SCA) as a development sponsor of Frequensea's subsea cable decommissioning tool, which is being developed to recover buried offshore cables while reducing seabed disturbance.The technology…

MacGregor to Equip IWS’ Four Skywalker-Class CSOV Newbuilds

Oct 06, 2026

MacGregor has received an order from Nantong Rainbow Offshore & Engineering Equipment to supply motion-compensated cranes and gangways for four additional Skywalker-class commissioning service operation vessels being built for IWS Fleet.The…

Orcadian Terminates UK Offshore Data Center Development Deal

Oct 05, 2026

Orcadian Energy and an unnamed U.S. offshore data center developer have terminated an agreement to jointly develop an offshore energy-to-compute project using gas resources from Orcadian's Earlham and Orwell discoveries in UK waters.The companies…

DEME Installs Final Monopile at Nordlicht I Offshore Wind Farm

Oct 01, 2026

DEME has installed the 68th and final monopile at Vattenfall's 980 MW Nordlicht I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, completing the project's monopile installation campaign.The milestone follows installation of the first monopile in July and the first transition piece in August…

Borr Drilling Lines Up New Work for Jack-Up Rig Trio

Oct 01, 2026

Borr Drilling has announced new commitments for three premium jack-up rigs, including a three-well award in West Africa, an exercised Shell option in Nigeria and an accommodation contract in the UK.The Norve rig has received a binding letter…

ACUA, Forssea Complete Remote ROV-USV Trials

Sep 28, 2026

ACUA Ocean and Forssea Robotics have completed trials combining an uncrewed surface vessel (USV) with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) for fully remote subsea inspection and light intervention operations off Plymouth in the UK.The three-week…

Omega Subsea to Deploy ROVs on NKT’s Cable Laying Vessels

Sep 25, 2026

Omega Subsea has secured a five-year agreement to provide ROV services for NKT's newbuild cable laying vessel (CLV) NKT Eleonora, expanding a partnership that already covers the NKT Victoria.The agreement follows a separate five-year contract announced in June for NKT Victoria…

Van Oord Names Next-Generation Fallpipe Vessel Pair

Sep 24, 2026

Van Oord has named its two next-generation flexible fallpipe vessels Vindnes and Vestnes, with the 35,000-tonne-capacity ships scheduled for delivery in 2028 and 2029.The purpose-built vessels, currently under construction at Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore in China…

ABL Joins Allseas for Record Heavy-Lift Offshore Decom Op

Sep 23, 2026

ABL has been appointed by Allseas as marine warranty surveyor for the single-lift removal of the Statfjord A topside in the North Sea, an operation set to use an upgraded 60,000-tonne lifting system aboard Pioneering Spirit.Allseas is carrying out the engineering…

Njord Survey Gets Multi-Year RWE’s Offshore Wind Services Deal

Sep 21, 2026

Njord Survey has secured a three-year framework agreement by RWE Offshore Wind to provide remotely operated vehicle services across offshore wind farms in U.K. and European waters.The agreement covers offshore survey campaigns using remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)…

Cadeler, Vattenfall Team Up New Offshore Wind O&M Solutions

Sep 21, 2026

Cadeler and Vattenfall have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore new offshore wind maintenance solutions, with a focus on major component exchanges for operating wind farms.The collaboration between Vattenfall Vindkraft and Nexra…

LNG Prices Projected to Spike; European Stocks Dwindle

Sep 17, 2026

Global LNG prices could shoot higher this winter as Europe holds its lowest stocks in years and North Asian buyers face increased competition with the Strait of Hormuz still closed, executives said at an industry conference this week.Europe…

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