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Eni Starts Drilling Activities off Ghana with Seventh-Gen Drillship

May 30, 2025

Eni Ghana, a subsidiary of Italy’s Eni, has marked the start of drilling activities offshore Ghana with the arrival of Deep Value Driller (DVD) drillship, following completion of activities in Côte d'Ivoire.Eni Ghana, together with its Offshore…

Gibdock Completes Renewal of TechnipFMC's Deepwater Pipelayer

May 29, 2025

Gibraltar-based ship repair and conversion yard Gibdock has completed the repair and renewal of TechnipFMC's Deep Blue, a deepwaer pipelay and subsea construction vessel.TechnipFMC relocated Deep Blue from the U.S. Gulf for the works, also redeploying…

Eni Starts Talks with GIP for Carbon Capture Unit Stake Sale

May 29, 2025

Eni has entered exclusive talks to sell a 49.99% stake in its carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) business to BlackRock's infrastructure fund GIP, the Italian energy group said on Tuesday.The move is part of Eni's broader strategy…

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…

Norway Grants Permit for Equinor’s Drilling Plan in North Sea

May 23, 2025

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Equinor Energy and its partners a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.The permit is for wellbore 35/11-31 S in production licence 090, operated by Equinor with 45% working interest…

Equinor, Polenergia Reach Financial Close for Polish Offshore Wind Farms

May 23, 2025

Equinor and Polenergia have reached financial close for the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 projects, securing two project financing packages of over $3.4 billion for each offshore wind farm.The offshore wind projects were awarded Contracts for Difference (CfD) in 2021…

Germany and UK to Explore Establishing Hydrogen Pipeline in North Sea

May 22, 2025

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…

Cadeler Buys Newly Built Jack-Up WTIV for O&M Services

May 22, 2025

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…

Two Wildcat Wells on Equinor’s North Sea Drilling Agenda

May 22, 2025

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for two wildcat exploration wells in the North Sea.The permit is for wellbore 15/5-8 S and 15/5-8 A, in production license 1140.The license is operated by Equinor with 60% working interest…

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…

DeepOcean Expands Subsea Market Scope with Shelf Subsea Acquisition

May 22, 2025

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…

Tidal Transit Welcomes New CTV to Its Fleet

May 21, 2025

Tidal Transit has christened its new crew transfer vessels (CTV) Anthea Luna, which is on charter with the Belgian offshore wind farm operator C-Power.The new WindFlex 27 Quad IPS model, delivered by Singapore-based Penguin International in March…

New Transfer Boat Set for Hornsea 2 Offshore Wind Service

May 21, 2025

ESVAGT, OSK Design, and Hvide Sande Shipyard have joined forces to raise the bar in offshore wind logistics with the development of a next-generation transfer boat, which has been designed to carry more technicians and cargo.ESVAGT and its partners…

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…

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