Siemens received another order from the German-Dutch grid operator, TenneT TSO, for a grid connection for offshore wind power plants in the German waters of the North Sea. The company will supply the entire technology for efficient direct-current transmission for the DolWin6 grid connection…
Russia's Gazprom began construction of the TurkStream pipeline’s offshore section. The Allseas Group, contractor for both strings of the gas pipeline's offshore section, started laying the pipes using the Audacia vessel. Construction…
North Sea producer Nexen Petroleum has awarded Plexus Holdings a one-well order for the high-pressure Glengorm exploration well in the Central North Sea. Nexen, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China's CNOOC, is due to drill the well after 1 July 2017…
CS Wind will build a new offshore tower manufacturing facility in Campbeltown, Scotland as a result of a multi-million-dollar investment from DONG Energy. This investment will give DONG Energy preferred access rights to towers for its offshore wind farms…
Bollsta Dolphin, Fred. Olsen Energy and Hyundai Heavy Industries have resolved their dispute and differences relating to the newbuilding contract for the semisubmersible drilling rig Bollsta Dolphin. Ownership of the platform will be retained by HHI…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Eni Norge consent to drill an exploration well in Block 7222 in the Barents Sea. Eni Norge is the operator for production license 226 in the Barents Sea. The well is to be drilled in a prospect named Aurelia…
Image: Lagos shore end landing/Global Marine Systems Global Marine Systems has just completed a major fiber optic installation project in the Gulf of Guinea. This telecommunications project for customer Huawei Marine Networks (HMN)…
Sound Oil, the European- and Mediterranean-focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the approval of the environmental impact assessment for the award of the D503-BR-CS permit, covering Sound Oil's Dora and Dalla assets in the Adriatic Sea…
SMD has recently delivered a Q-Trencher 400 telecoms vehicle to United Arab Emirates-based company E-Marine. The vehicle is to be installed on the company’s new build CS Maram; E-Marine’s dedicated submarine cable installation and maintenance vessel…
Tampet awarded UK-based Global Marine Systems Ltd. two contracts in the North Sea, designed to further enhance high-capacity communications networks in the area and entail highly skilled route survey, cable installation and protection services…
KrisEnergy began its 570sq km 3D seismic survey in Block 120, offshore Vietnam using the CGG Amadeus vessel. Map from KrisEnergy. Block 120 overlies Quang Ngai Graben and Tri Ton Horst…
Gazprom has agreed to buyout its South Stream Transport partners Eni, Wintershall and EDF just weeks after the project, which was already in construction phase, was cancelled. South Stream Transport was owned 50% by Gazprom, with Eni holding 20%…
The Caspian Sea is a land-locked interior basin with established oil and gas production that has seen increasing activity since the bordering nations gained independence from the former USSR in the late 1990s. Five nations surround the sea: Russia…
Exploration and production company Sound Oil is planning to drill its first appraisal well on the Laura discovery offshore Italy as part of a larger drilling program in the country next year. Laura, in the D150 DR-CS permit in…
Cape Wind clears another hurdleAnother challenge to its long-delayed quest to become the US’s first offshore wind farm was successfully fought off by Cape Wind as federal regulators in August upheld an earlier decision that said the project posed no threat to airways…