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Louis Dreyfus Takes Delivery of Two New Offshore Wind CTVs

Jun 02, 2025

Singaporean shipbuilder Strategic Marine has delivered two new Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) to Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA), expanding its high-specification offshore wind support fleet.The newly delivered StratCat 27 vessels, sister ships to Acti’Vent and Esti’Vent…

Fugro Lands Deepwater Gas Field Job in Southeast Asia

Jun 02, 2025

Fugro has signed a letter of award to perform a site characterization program for a deepwater gas field development in Southeast Asia.The contract award represents the largest geotechnical and geophysical survey project for Fugro in the Asia Pacific region to date…

Gazelle Secures Multi-Million Funding for Floating Wind Demo

May 30, 2025

Gazelle Wind Power, a Dublin-based floating wind developer, has closed a $2.26 million (€2 million) investment with Banco Português de Fomento (BPF) to support further development of its floating wind technology and projects.The investment with…

OMV Exits Ghasha Gas Project off UAE with Lukoil Stake Sale

May 30, 2025

Austrian oil and gas firm OMV has signed an agreement with Lukoil Gulf Upstream, a subsidiary of Russia’s Lukoil, to divest its stake in a sour gas development offshore the United Arab Emirates (UAE).OMV has agreed the sale of 5% stake in the…

Island Frontier MSV Wraps Up West Africa Campaign for Oceaneering

May 30, 2025

Island Frontier multi-service vessel (MSV), owned by Island Offshore, has completed another campaign in West Africa for Oceaneering, ahead of embarking on a new project in the region.As part of the campaign, Island Frontier MSV delivered spool…

Agogo FPSO Checks In Offshore Angola

May 29, 2025

The Agogo floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit has reached Angola ahead off installation at Azule Energy’s offshore field.The trans-oceanic towing operation from China to Angola was conducted by PACC Offshore Services Holdings (POSH)…

Equinor's Troll Gas Field Outage Extends to end of May

May 27, 2025

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…

EU: 44 Oil and Gas Firms Asked to Provide CO2 Storage Solutions

May 23, 2025

The European Commission said on Thursday it had asked 44 oil and gas companies to contribute to the EU's collective target of storing at least 50 million tonnes of CO2 per year by 2030, as part of the bloc's aim to achieve climate neutrality…

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…

Shell Expects to Bank On LNG Exporters Turning Into Importers

May 23, 2025

Energy major Shell expects several traditional LNG exporter nations to turn into net importers, driving demand for the super chilled fuel and potentially easing concerns that the industry faces oversupply from a raft of planned new projects…

OSV Operates on Green Hydrogen

Oct 14, 2024

An offshore support vessel (OSV) has successfully operated on green hydrogen in the German Wadden Sea.Aiming to minimize its environmental impact, operator Acta Marine, based in the Netherlands, decided to install eCap Marine’s containerized…

Viking Supply Ships to Upgrade Four AHTS with Subsea Cranes

Oct 07, 2024

Sweden-based Viking Supply Ships announced it has secured a contract for four 100-ton heave-compensated offshore cranes to be installed on its fleet of ice classed anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels.These advanced cranes will enhance the vessels' capabilities…

Coastal Contracts Orders Subsea Support Vessel Pair in China

Sep 20, 2024

Malaysian shipowner Coastal Contracts Bhd on Thursday placed an order with Chinese shipbuilder Fujian Funing Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, a subsidiary of Fujian Shipbuilding Industry Group, for a pair of 85-meter subsea support/maintenance vessels…

PaxOcean Bags Order to Build Up to 10 New MPSVs

Sep 16, 2024

Shipbuilder PaxOcean announced it has signed a contract with an undisclosed Greek shipowner for the construction of up to 10 multipurpose service vessels (MPSV).The significant order comes as demand rises across the offshore support vessel (OSV) sector…

DOF Subsea Grows Its APAC Backlog

Aug 30, 2024

DOF Subsea (DOF) on Friday announced a contract extension and a contract award securing further backlog for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.A contract extension has been secured for dive support vessel Skandi Singapore with the vessel fully committed…

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