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Japanese Oil Firm Buys into Dutch Offshore Wind Farms

Dec 16, 2021

Japanese oil and gas company Inpex has agreed to enter a stock transfer agreement with Diamond Generating Europe B.V. a Dutch-registered subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation and acquire a 50% stake in the Luchterduinen offshore wind farm and…

Talos Energy Names Director to Lead Low Carbon Business

Dec 16, 2021

U.S. oil company Talos Energy has appointed Robin Fielder as the Company's first Executive Vice President Low Carbon Strategy and Chief Sustainability Officer. Under the newly created executive leadership role,  Fielder will serve as the lead…

Seacat Catamaran Nets O&M Charter at Moray East Offshore Wind Farm

Dec 16, 2021

UK-based crew transfer vessel operator Seacat Services said Thursday it had signed a long-term charter for catamaran Seacat Weatherly with Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Limited.Seacat Weatherly has already started its assignments earlier this…

Kongsberg Maritime Upgrades Alvheim FPSO's Safety and Automation Systems

Dec 16, 2021

Kongsberg Maritime said Thursday it had successfully upgraded the safety and automation systems on Aker BP's Alvheim FPSO in Norway.Formerly a tanker named Odin, the vessel was converted into an FPSO in 2008 and renamed Alvheim in recognition of the oil field in which it operates…

PetroNor CEO Arrested. Interim CEO Named

Dec 16, 2021

Knut Søvold, CEO of the Oslo--listed oil and gas company PetroNor E&P, has been arrested as part of a criminal investigation in Norway.This was shared by PetroNor E&P on Thursday, a day after the company said that the National Authority for…

Competition Regulator OKs Woodside's Merger with BHP's Oil & Gas Business

Dec 16, 2021

Australia's competition regulator approved Woodside Petroleum's agreed $28 billion merger with BHP Group's petroleum arm on Thursday, saying it would not reduce competition in the domestic gas market.The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission…

Petrofac Expects Drop in Annual Revenue on COVID-19 Woes, Weak Orders

Dec 16, 2021

British oil services firm Petrofac Ltd said on Thursday it expects its revenue for the financial year to be down by about a quarter, as low order intake and the coronavirus pandemic continued to dent its operations.The company forecasts its annual revenue to come in at about $3 billion…

Offshore Wind to Require Ocean Space the Size of Italy by 2050

Dec 16, 2021

By mid-century, offshore wind will require ocean space which is equivalent to the landmass of Italy, and the industry will by then account for half of all the capex in the Blue Economy, according to DNV’s Ocean’s Future to 2050 report.'The exponential…

Lime Petroleum Gets Approval to Buy Repsol's Brage Field Stake (Norway)

Dec 16, 2021

Oil and gas company Lime Petroleum received approval from the Norwegian authorities to acquire Repsol’s 33.8434 stake in the Brage field in the North Sea, offshore Norway.'With this approval, the acquisition is expected to be completed by December 31…

Viaro Energy Sells Foinaven Field Stake to BP

Dec 16, 2021

Viaro Energy's subsidiary Rockrose UKCS 10 Ltd has struck a deal to sell its 28% non-operated stake in the Foinaven offshore oil field, west of Shetland, to BP.The Foinaven oil field sits 190 kilometers west of Shetland in water depths of between 350 and 520 meters and is operated by BP…

Offshore Wind: DEME Offshore to Install Inter-Array Cables at Dogger Bank C

Dec 16, 2021

Belgium-based DEME Offshore has won a contract to deliver and install inter-array cables at the Dogger Bank C offshore wind farm in the UK.Dogger Bank C is the third phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm which will be the world's largest offshore wind farm once fully complete…

Five Firms Seek to Develop CO2 Storage off Norway

Dec 15, 2021

Five companies have applied to build carbon dioxide (CO2) storage on the Norwegian continental shelf, the country's oil and energy ministry said on Wednesday.The ministry proposed in September two offshore areas, one in the North Sea and one in the Arctic Barents Sea…

Brazil: Helix Energy Solutions Wins One-year Charter Extension for 'Siem Helix 2'

Dec 15, 2021

U.S.-based Helix Energy Solutions Group has secured an extension of its well intervention charter and services contracts with Brazil's Petrobras for the Siem Helix 2 well intervention vessel.'The initial four-year contract for the Siem Helix…

UK: BP Awards FEED Contracts for Teesside Power, Carbon Capture and Compression Project

Dec 15, 2021

BP – the operator of Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) and the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) – has awarded contracts as part of its dual Front End Engineering Design (FEED) competition to two separate consortiums of engineering, carbon capture licensors…

Tidal Power: Orbital Eyes Multi-device Deployment Across UK

Dec 15, 2021

UK-based tidal energy technology firm Orbital said Wednesday it would qualify multiple applications for submission into the UK Government’s Allocation Round 4 (AR4) of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme.'Following a series of good news stories for tidal energy commercialization in 2021…

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