New BP Chair Albert Manifold told employees on Tuesday that the group's portfolio was 'overly complex' and it needed to execute its strategy of shifting focus back to oil and gas faster, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.Manifold took the helm of BP's board on Tuesday…
Oner and developer of large-scale midstream oil and gas infrastructure North Sea Midstream Partners (NSMP) has received first gas from Shell’s Victory field in the UK North Sea.The start-up of the Victory field marks the first new gas from the…
Windward Offshore has taken delivery of its first Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV), Windward Athens, built by Norwegian shipbuilder Vard.The vessel represents a major milestone on Windward Offshore’s growth path and marks the company’s…
Eni and the Ivorian Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Energy have signed the exploration contract for the CI-707 offshore block in Ivory Coast.The license covers an area of approximately 2,926 square kilometers in the Ivorian sedimentary basin…
French tubular solutions supplier Vallourec has secured a new order from Petrobras for its Submagnético Free Flow oil country tubular goods (OCTG) solution designed to prevent inorganic scaling in production strings.The order covers the production and installation of more than 30 units…
Energy services company Global Energy Group has rebranded as Global and unveiled plans to build a new 2,000 square meter headquarters in Inverness as part of its strategy to grow turnover from $400 million to $670 million within three years…
Saipem has completed the first complex subsea structure ever built in Guyana, set for deployment at ExxonMobil’s Uaru field, marking a key milestone in the development of the country's industrial capabilities in the subsea sector.This is the Pipeline End Termination (PLET)…
Eiffage, through Smulders, has been awarded a contract by RTE, France’s transmission system operator, to develop and build three alternating current substations for the Bretagne Sud, Narbonnaise Sud-Hérault and Golfe de Fos French offshore wind farms…
Belgian marine contractor Jan De Nul has ordered a rock installation vessel, specifically built to strengthen the protection of offshore energy and subsea data infrastructure.The vessel, named George W. Goethals, will be the company’s largest rock installation ship to date…
Ocean services provider DeepOcean has been awarded a SIMOPRO – simultaneous marine operation and production – installation contract by Equinor on the Norwegian continental shelf.DeepOcean’s scope of work entails SIMOPRO installation work on both the Åsgård and Visund fields…
MODEC has been awarded the full engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) scope to develop a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Hammerhead project in Guyana following a final investment decision (FID) by ExxonMobil…
Dutch offshore services provider Boskalis has engaged its heavy transport vessel Blue Marlin to move a recently converted floating production unit (FPU) to Angola, ahead of its deployment at Congo’s first natural gas liquefaction project.The cargo…
The first batch of monopiles for Baltica 2, a 1.5 GW offshore wind farm being developed by Ørsted and PGE in the Baltic Sea, has rolled off the factory floor, marking a key milestone for what will be Poland’s largest offshore wind project.A total of 111 monopiles are planned for the project…
Equinor and partners in Åsgard and Mikkel licenses have started the second phase of Åsgard subsea compression in the Norwegian Sea, with the aim to maintain production from the field by increasing the pressure in the pipelines between the wells and the Åsgard B platform…
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted consent for the start-up of a tie-in from the Equinor-operated Troll B platform in the North Sea to the Kvitebjørn gas export line.The tie-in will help reduce the decline in gas production in upcoming years…