The US government’s Atlantic Wind Lease Sale 6 for 79,350 acres offshore New York was held this week, with Norway’s Statoil being declared the provisional winner. Atlantic Wind Lease Sale 6 map…
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer more than 9000 blocks, spanning more than 48 million acres in the Central Gulf of Mexico (GoM) Lease Sale 247, which is the Obama Administration's final GoM sale in its five year program…
Decommissioning offshore structures isn’t going away any time soon and research points to a US$210 billion bill for this activity from 2020-2040 worldwide. John Bradbury looks at the market. Allseas’…
Lamprell completed the construction on the jackup drilling rig, Al Gharbia, and its delivery to Abu Dhabi’s National Drilling Co. (NDC). Completion and delivery of the jackup rig, on time and on budget, was marked at an inauguration ceremony…
The first offshore wind farm to deliver energy to the American power grid is now operational, owner Deepwater Wind said this week. The turbines have now completed commissioning and testing and started commercial operations. Energy produced…
North Sea explorer Independent Oil and Gas has seen an increase in resource estimates on two southern North Sea prospects, Elgood and Harvey, following 3D seismic reprocessing work. Harvey, initially thought to be one discovery and a nearby prospect are now thought to be linked…
Noble Energy is looking to drill a US$77 million appraisal and production well in the Leviathan area offshore Israel in Q1 2017, with a target of natural gas production from the giant field by the end of 2019, according to partner Delek Group…
A sustained low oil price environment has led to a large number of delayed maintenance activities as operators continue to look to reduce costs wherever possible. The offshore maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) market experienced…
In September 2016, privately owned Norwegian contractor Imenco launched a new division Imenco Corrosion Technology to concentrate on the promotion of its field proven anode systems globally to the offshore renewable energy sector and into late life assets in the oil and gas industry…
A new report from NSRI (National Subsea Research Initiative) has identified operations and maintenance (O&M) – particularly inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) activities – as the highest potential area for subsea companies to diversify into offshore wind…
Offshore Wind Consultants Ltd. (OWC) has been appointed by a Taiwanese renewables company to provide consultancy services related to wind turbine installation vessels and their suitability for different wind turbines and site locations offshore Taiwan…
California's governor Jerry Brown has urged US President Barack Obama to permanently withdraw waters off his state from new offshore oil and gas leasing and 'guarantee that future oil and gas drilling' is prohibited. Brown had sucessfully…
Offshore marine and engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has been contracted by A2SEA to perform engineering consultancy services for its offshore wind farm installation work at the Horns Rev 3 wind farm offshore Denmark. Aqualis…
A new company, Nucore Group, has been established to create a topside engineering services group of companies. Backed by Lonsdale Capital Partners, Nucore Group currently oversees the management of Oteac and HVAC & Refrigeration Engineering (HVAC&R)…
Nine offshore workers are missing and one has died following an accident offshore Azerbaijan, just over a year after dozens were lost in a previous tragedy. High winds of 41m/s caused a 150m high part of the pier on the right and left sides of the oil gathering station of the No…
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