By early last week, hedge funds had become the most bearish towards petroleum prices since the start of the year, as traders grew increasingly pessimistic about the global economy.Hedge funds and other money managers sold the equivalent of 95…
The value of the global market for subsea power cables needed to build offshore wind farms will grow by 57% from GBP 717 million this year to over GBP 1.13 billion by 2023, according to a new report by RenewableUK.The study – 'Offshore Wind…
Norway's Aker BP fell short of its third-quarter oil and gas output target and will take an impairment charge of $80 million, it said on Monday, sending its shares down more than 4%.Daily output fell to 146,100 barrels of oil equivalents per day (boepd) in the July-September quarter period from 150…
Partners Spirit Energy and Dana Petroleum will invest £140 million ($177 million) to extend the life of the Chestnut field in the UK North Sea by as much as three years.The companies announced on Friday that they reached a deal with Teekay to…
Norway's TGS, a supplier of seismic data to the global oil industry, reported record third-quarter revenues on Tuesday, beating both its own and analysts' forecasts, the company said.So-called net segment revenues hit $277 million for the July-September period…
U.S.-based Chevron Corp said on Friday it signed an agreement with a unit of Royal Dutch Shell to buy a 40% stake in three deepwater blocks in the Mexican Gulf that the Anglo-Dutch firm won in auctions under the nation's energy reform.The deal…
Norway's Martin Linge offshore oil and gas project will cost $865 million more than previously expected and take an extra half year to come on line, the government and operator Equinor announced on Monday.The government has also raised its estimate…
Forum Subsea Technologies’ latest remotely operated vehicle (ROV), the XLe Spirit, has completed sea trials in Norway, the manufacturer announced on Wednesday.The vehicle is the first of a new generation of electric observation class ROVs. It is the smallest in the new range…
Subsea and offshore solutions provider Unique Group has sad it has signed an agreement to acquire five unmanned surface vessels (USV) DriX units from French technology company iXblue.The autonomous offshore survey vehicles are designed for a…
The offshore oil and gas sector urgently needs a comprehensive strategy to ensure that the risks of dropped objects are mitigated effectively prior to and during decommissioning. If mismanaged, drops may result in safety risks for personnel…
After a week that saw Norway announce a record number of oilfields in operation and support for the UN Climate Change Committee’s new report, there’s a paradoxical window of opportunity for offshore suppliers offering increments of “green” savings…
British operator and owner of renewable energy assets SSE Renewables announced that it has won UK’s third Contract for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round and is set to be awarded 15-year contracts for low carbon power from offshore wind at record low strike prices…
The floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) service provider in Malaysia, Yinson Holdings Bhd has been awarded a contract extension for its Lam Son FPSO for operations on the Lam Son field, located offshore Vietnam.'On 30 September 2019…
Oil and gas company Hague and London Oil (HALO) said it has reached an agreement to acquire a group of assets in the Dutch and UK sectors of the North Sea from ONE-Dyas (OND).These interests consist of 7.9% of the Sillimanite Development Unit…
Harland and Wolff, the Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic, has been sold by owner Dolphin Drilling to infrastructure specialists InfraStrata for £6 million ($7.3 million), saving the facility from closure, InfraStrata said on Tuesday.Harland and Wolff's multipurpose fabrication facility…