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NKT Partners Up with Helix for ‘World’s Most Powerful’ Subsea Trencher

Jul 17, 2025

NKT has selected Helix Robotic Solutions as the partner for operating its new T3600 subsea trencher, said to be the world’s most powerful trencher, which will become operational in 2027.NKT has entered a long-term cooperation and frame agreement with UK-based Helix Robotic Solutions Limited…

Worley Inks FEED Contract for Scottish Floating Wind Farm

Jul 17, 2025

Worley has secured a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for onshore substation for the 560 MW GreenVolt floating wind farm offshore Scotland, being developed by Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, a joint venture firm created by Plenitude (Eni) and HitecVision…

Saab Delivers Another Seaeye Falcon ROV to Subsea Specialist

Jul 16, 2025

Saab UK has delivered its 600th Seaeye Falcon remotely operated vehicle (ROV) produced in Fareham, built for international subsea specialist DISA International.The latest addition joins DISA’s growing fleet of Saab Seaeye vehicles and contributes…

EnQuest Picks Up Offshore Oil and Gas Block in Brunei

Jul 16, 2025

U.K.-based oil firm EnQuest has been awarded a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for Block C, offshore Brunei, by the Petroleum Authority of Brunei Darussalam (PABD).EnQuest EP BV, a subsidiary of EnQuest, will initially be the sole operator of the PSA with the intention to subsequently…

Partners Secure One-Year License Extension for Orange Basin Block

Jul 16, 2025

The joint venture partners in PEL 79 license, which include the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR) and Giraffe Energy Investments, have secured a 12-month extension to the exploration period for offshore blocks in Namibia’s Orange Basin…

Van Oord Installs All Monopiles for Sofia Offshore Wind Farm

Jul 15, 2025

Van Oord has completed the installation of all monopile foundations at RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm, marking a major milestone in the construction of one of world’s largest wind farms.To execute the works, Van Oord deployed offshore wind installation vessel Aeolus…

Masdar, RWE Get Closer to Official Go-Ahead for 3GW UK Offshore Wind Farms

Jul 14, 2025

The U.K. Planning Inspectorate has concluded its six-month Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) examination period for the Dogger Bank South (DBS) offshore wind farms, with the consent decision now expected within the next six months…

Iberdrola Picks Up $4.9B to Finance 1.4GW UK Offshore Wind Farm

Jul 11, 2025

Iberdrola has signed green financing agreement with 24 banks for the East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm, being developed together with Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar).The transaction valued at $4.88 billion, which was 40% oversubscribed…

Shell Secures Drilling Permit off South Africa's West Coast

Jul 11, 2025

Shell has been granted environmental authorisation to drill up to five deep-water wells off South Africa's west coast, the company said on Friday.The oil major applied for authorisation last year and plans to drill exploration or appraisal wells…

Australian Engineering Firm Gets Work on Shell’s Crux Gas Platform

Jul 10, 2025

Engineering company Monadelphous Group has secured new contracts in the energy sector valued at more than $100 million, including work at Shell’s Crux gas platform and Origin Energy’s LNG project.Monadelphous signed a contract with Technip Energies…

TGS to Provide Tech Set to Optimize Northern Lights CCS Operations

Jul 10, 2025

Norwegian data and intelligence firm TGS has signed a collaboration agreement with Equinor, aimed at advancing the digitalization of carbon capture and storage (CCS) operations at Northern Lights project.The agreement strengthens the ongoing…

Masdar, Iberdrola to Co-Invest $6B in East Anglia THREE Offshore Wind Farm

Jul 10, 2025

Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) and Iberdrola have agreed to co-invest $6.08 billion in the 1.4 GW East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm in the U.K., in what’s said to be the largest offshore wind transaction of the decade.Under the agreement…

UK Bags $10B Japanese Investment for Offshore Wind and Hydrogen Projects

Jul 09, 2025

The U.K. government has unlocked $10.1 billion investment into key clean energy projects, like offshore wind and hydrogen, with the signing of a new deal with the Sumitomo Corporation in Tokyo.Sumitomo Corporation aims to facilitate the investment into key U…

E-CTV Aces Tryouts at Scottish Offshore Wind Farm

Jul 09, 2025

Artemis Technologies has demonstrated its latest electric crew transfer vessel (E-CTV) at Vattenfall's Aberdeen offshore wind farm, in partnership with Vattenfall, Tidal Transit, Lloyd's Register and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult…

Subsea7, OneSubsea to Work on New Phase of Equinor’s Deepwater Brazilian Field

Jul 09, 2025

Subsea Integration Alliance (SIA) partners Subsea7 and SLB OneSubsea have signed a contract with Equinor for the development of a concept study for the Phase 2 of the Bacalhau project, offshore Brazil.The contract, for which the details have not been disclosed…

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