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Navantia Seanergies Delivers Second Substation Jacket for French OW Farm

May 23, 2025

Navantia Seanergies, Spanish shipbuilder Navantia’s green energies division, has delivered its second substation jacket for Ocean Winds for the offshore wind farm at Dieppe Le Tréport in France.The jacket departed from the south basin of the Puerto Real shipyard…

Fire Contained at Vietnamese Oil Platform Undergoing Decommissioning (Video)

May 23, 2025

A fire incident that occurred at a platform undergoing decommissioning operation offshore Vietnam has been contained, the operator Petrovietnam Exploration Production Corporation (PVEP) has informed.The incident took place at Song Doc field…

Saipem Hires AIS Bardot to Supply Equipment for Deepwater Project off Angola

May 23, 2025

AIS Bardot, a supplier of subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines, has secured a contract from Saipem for TotalEnergies’ Kamiho deepwater oil and gas project, off Angola.The contract is for the manufacture and supply of three complete hybrid riser lines of 100 meters each…

Triton FPSO Set for End of June Production Restart as Repair Ops Wrap Up

May 22, 2025

U.K.-based oil firm Serica Energy has completed the repairs on Triton floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, with the production scheduled to resume end of June, after the annual maintenance program.Repairs on the Triton FPSO in the North Sea have been ongoing…

Terradepth Lands Long-Term Offshore Survey Contract in Asia Pacific

May 22, 2025

Terradepth, a provider of Ocean Data as a Service (ODaaS), has secured a five-year Master Services Agreement with a major offshore energy company in Asia Pacific region.Terradepth will deliver autonomous hydrographic survey and data services…

One Person Missing After Fire on Chevron’s Deepwater Platform off Angola

May 21, 2025

One person has been reported missing following the fire incident that occurred on May 20 at Chevron’s Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) deepwater platform off Angola, that left 17 people injured.The report about the missing person was shared by Angola’s National Agency for Oil…

Industry Partners Unveil Next-Gen Floating Wind Installation Vessel Design

May 21, 2025

A consortium based in South West England, led by Morek Engineering, has unveiled its design concept for a new vessel class for the floating offshore wind (FLOW) market, having completed the first feasibility stage.Consortium partners include naval architects Solis Marine Engineering…

Glamox Lights Up Tennet’s DolWin HVDC Offshore Wind Converter Platform

May 21, 2025

Glamox has delivered smart lighting to the offshore converter platform DolWin epsilon, built by consortium consisting of Seatrium and Aibel, for Tennet’s DolWin5 grid connection system in North Sea.European grid operator TenneT is in the process…

Subsea7 Secures Subsea Job for FPSO off West Africa

May 21, 2025

Subsea 7 has secured of a subsea contract in West Africa, worth up to $150 million.Subsea7 will be responsible for transporting and installing flexible pipelines, umbilicals, and associated subsea components for the connection of a floating production…

Fire Breaks Out at Chevron’s Platform off Angola, Injuring 17

May 21, 2025

Seventeen people have been injured, four seriously, after a fire broke out at Chevron’s Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT), located in Block 14, offshore Angola.According to an update from Angola’s National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG)…

BW Energy’s Gabon Unit Takes Over O&M Tasks for BW Adolo FPSO

May 21, 2025

BW Offshore and BW Energy have announced that operations and maintenance (O&M) of the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel BW Adolo have been handed over to BW Energy’s subsidiary, BW Energy Gabon.Under an amended bareboat charter…

Chevron Hires MMA Offshore’s PSV to Support Assets off Australia

May 20, 2025

MMA Offshore, a subsidiary of Cyan Renewables, has secured a multi-year contract from Chevron Australia for its platform supply vessel (PSV) MMA Plover.The vessel has been contracted to provide marine logistics support to Chevron’s Barrow Island and Wheatstone assets…

Odfjell to Put Floating Wind Tech on Try-Outs at Norwegian Test Center

May 20, 2025

Odfjell Oceanwind has secured a slot with 24 MW capacity grid connection at the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre), where it will install one full-scale floating offshore wind turbine in 2028.The project, named SCALEWIND, will demonstrate…

ABS Greenlights SHI’s Multi-Purpose Deepwater LNG Floating Unit

May 20, 2025

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has issued an approval in principle (AiP) to Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for its design of a multi-purpose liquefied natural gas (LNG) floating facility for deep water (MLF-O).Called MLF-O, the next-generation…

Aker BP and Partners Find Oil in Norwegian Sea

May 20, 2025

Aker BP and its partners have made an oil discovery near the Skary field in the Norwegian Sea, using Saipem’s Scarabeo 8 semi-submersible drilling rig.The oil discovery was made in the so-called E prospect near the Skary field, in wells 6507/5-13 S and 6507/5-13 A…

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