The holiday season would not feel complete without festive greetings from offshore industry companies - and once again, they have delivered.While most of us are busy wrapping presents, planning family dinners, and counting down the days to the New Year, thousands of offshore professionals are keeping the world moving: operating rigs, sailing vessels, maintaining subsea infrastructure, and ensuring energy and trade continue uninterrupted…
SBM Offshore has signed a contract extension related to the lease and operation of floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units Mondo and Saxi Batuque with ExxonMobil’s Angolan subsidiary.The extension secures ownership and operations…
Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO) has signed a share subscription agreement with Ireland’s Simply Blue Group’s offshore wind development arm, Simply Blue Energy OSW (SBE OSW).The strategic investment marks KEPCO’s first investment involving…
IX Renewables and Asia Cement Corporation (ACC) have signed a cooperation agreement for the Rui Li 1 floating offshore wind project in Tawian.Located deep waters off Hsinchu, the Rui Li 1 floating wind farm will have a planned installed capacity of 180 MW…
Greece has formally selected a consortium of U.S. oil major Chevron and domestic firm Helleniq Energy as the preferred bidder for four offshore gas exploration areas - one in the Ionian Sea and three south of the Peloponnese and Crete - the country’s energy ministry said…
Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) has issued a certification for the recently inaugurated 25 MW Provence Grand Large floating offshore wind project, developed and owned by EDF Power Solutions, Enbridge and CPP Investments.BV has been involved in Provence Grand Large project journey since 2017…
The first of the two planned offshore substations for Skyborn Renewables’ 976.5 MW Gennaker offshore wind farm has been moved out of the construction hall at the Smulders yard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.OSS Darß is the first of the two platforms being developed by HSI consortium…
Aesen Pte. Ltd. (Aesen) and Dutch Offshore Contractors Holdings B.V. (DOC) formed Aesen DOC Cable Logistics Pte. Ltd., a joint venture to address the growing global demand for subsea cable transport, storage and logistics solutions.With global…
U.K.-based logistics and engineering specialist Harlyn Solutions has opened a new office in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, marking a key step in its European expansion strategy aimed at supporting complex energy and infrastructure projects across the continent…
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…
Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) introduced its latest digital innovation, the Augmented Surveyor 3D (AGS 3D), an inspection tool that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect and localize structural anomalies on ships and offshore assets…
U.K.-based oil firm EnQuest, and its joint venture partners, have been confirmed as the winning bidders for two Production Sharing Contract (PSC) blocks in Indonesia’s Papua Barat, including Gaea and Gaea II.The blocks present a multi-Tscf unrisked…
Danish logistics specialist deugro and its partners Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S and Amasus Offshore B.V. are moving full steam ahead with the next generation of purpose-built transport vessels for the offshore wind sector. In a key milestone for offshore project logistics…
Wavepiston, a developer of turnkey wave energy technology, shared that two professional investors have invested about $980,000 in Wavepiston via the Dutch joint venture company, The Blue Line B.V. The Blue Line is an initiative from investors Connect the Drops…
Petrobras has informed that a Drill Stem Test (DST) in the Sirius-2 well, located in deep waters of the Gujaira Basin offshore Colombia, proved ‘good productivity’.The DST assessed to approximately 100 meters reservoir interval, which demonstrated good productivity…