C-Innovation (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has completed the decommissioning of the Joliet tension leg platform (TLP) in the Gulf of America.Joliet was the oldest TLP installed in the Gulf of America…
Offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling has secured new contract commitments for two of its premium jack-up rigs and confirmed the start of operations for one of its rigs offshore Mexico.In the North Sea, Borr Drilling’s Prospector 1 jack…
Norwegian subsea services firm Reach Subsea has sent off its Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) Reach Remote 2 to Australia to deliver services for Woodside Energy.The Reach Remote 2 USV will perform reservoir monitoring on the Scarborough gas field…
Equinor and partners have struck oil and gas in the Fram area, nine kilometers north of the Troll field in the North Sea.The discoveries were made in exploration well 35/11-31 S in production license 090, operated by Equinor with 45% working interest…
Equinor has pulled out of the Australian Novocastrian Offshore Wind Farm project which was planned for a location about 20 kilometers offshore from off Newcastle.It was partnered with Australian company Oceanex on the A$10 billion ($6.5 billion)…
The Northern Endeavour FPSO is being shipped by a Chinese heavy lift ship from Australia to Denmark for recycling.Installed between the Laminaria and Corallina oil fields in the Timor Sea and unproductive since 2019, its fate became the burden…
The US Department of the Interior is updating oil and gas commingling rules to align with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.Commingling is the practice of combining oil or gas production from two or more sources into a single stream for measurement and processing…
Reach Subsea has completed a subsea inspection campaign for TotalEnergies, carried out in the Skirne, Byggve, and Atla fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.The project was delivered using Reach Remote 1, an unmanned surface vessel equipped with an electric ROV…
A panel session at The Heavy Lift Group’s gathering in The Hague in May put its finger on a ‘hot button’ topic in offshore logistics by focusing on the responses required from industry to fast-changing developments in the renewables sector.The…
Digital twin technology company Aize has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with McDermott to strengthen its presence and collaboration in the Middle East.The MoU spans the entire project lifecycle - from EPC through pre-operations to full operations…
The development Argentina’s vast Vaca Muerta share is transforming the nation into a rising energy exporter, with oil and pipeline gas already flowing abroad and an ambitious multi-phase ‘Argentina LNG’ initiative aiming to secure a permanent place in the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market…
Robosys Automation is leading Project ORACLES, a venture which it says will transform the environmental consenting process for offshore wind farms.Currently the data collection process for environmental monitoring at proposed offshore wind sites is labor-intensive…
EnQuest completed the removal of the Heather Alpha topsides on August 11.The Allseas-owned Pioneering Spirit heavy lift vessel removed the 15,300 tonne topsides in a single lift, the largest single lift planned in the North Sea this year.EnQuest Decommissioning Director…
Kent has been awarded a new technical advisory services contract by the Australian Government to support the permanent plugging and abandonment of the Laminaria-Corallina oil fields in the Timor Sea.The contract also includes advisory services…
Ambipar and SBM Offshore announced a solution for cleaning cargo oil tanks on (FPSOs), a solution that importantly is geared to completely remove humans from entering tanks during cleaning activities.“This robotic solution marks a turning point for the offshore industry…