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TGS Secures Monitoring and Survey Extensions Offshore Norway

Nov 18, 2025

Data energy and intelligence firm TGS has extended the existing contracts with major international energy company for reservoir monitoring and source services offshore Norway.The extensions are for the provision of reservoir monitoring and source…

Canada’s First Tidal Energy Array Authorized Using Adaptive Regulatory Framework

Nov 14, 2025

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has issued a Fisheries Act Authorization to Eauclaire Tidal Ltd. to deploy up to three Orbital Marine Power Ltd (Orbital) O2-X tidal energy devices at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE). This marks the first project to proceed under Canada’s revised…

Petrobras’ New FPSO Sets Sail From South Korea to Brazil's Santos Basin

Nov 13, 2025

Petrobras’ P-79 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit has departed South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean shipyard bound for Brazil’s Búzios field, where it will add 180,000 barrels-per-day production capacity by 2026.The P-79 set sail on November 11 from Hanwha Ocean shipyard in Geoje-Si…

TADEK Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Leadership Restructure

Nov 12, 2025

TADEK Ocean Engineering, a UK offshore engineering consultancy delivering front-end advisory, through-project delivery solutions and naval architecture analysis, announced its new look leadership team and strategic new senior appointments as the company prepares for further growth…

SeaBird Exploration’s Fulmar Explorer to Remain on OBN Duty

Nov 12, 2025

Norwegian marine seismic survey services firm SeaBird Exploration, part of SED Energy Holdings, has secured a contract extension for its Fulmar Explorer seismic survey vessel.The three-month contract extension for ocean bottom node (OBN) source…

Viridien, TGS Deliver Results of OBN Survey in Gulf of America

Nov 12, 2025

Viridien, in collaboration with TGS, has made available the early out results from the Laconia Phase III ultra-long offset ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Gulf of America.The initial 5Hz Acoustic TLFWI (AFWI) Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) products from the Laconia Phase III survey are now available…

Rhino Resources Prolongs Deepsea Mira's Stay off Namibia

Nov 12, 2025

Offshore drilling contractor Northern Ocean and oil and gas firm Rhino Resources have signed a contract extension for Deepsea Mira semi-submersible drilling rig for work offshore Namibia.The contract for Deepsea Mira with Rhino Resources, signed in July 2025…

BOEM Advances Offshore Minerals Planning Efforts in American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands

Nov 10, 2025

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced key developments in its offshore critical minerals planning, with the completion of Area Identification offshore American Samoa and the release of a Request for Information and Interest for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands…

Trump Finalizes US Gulf Lease Sale, Proposes Alaska Sale

Nov 09, 2025

The Trump administration will hold an auction for drilling oil and gas off the U.S. Gulf next month and has proposed another in a waterway in southern Alaska, it said on Friday.The lease sale in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump refers to as the Gulf of America…

Major Offshore Renewables Emergency Exercise Tests Industry Response

Nov 07, 2025

The UK offshore renewables sector has been put through its paces in a major emergency response exercise designed to test coordination among industry, government, and emergency services during a large-scale offshore incident.Organized by the Offshore Renewable Energy Emergency Forum (OREEF)…

Judge Rules Trump can Reconsider SouthCoast Wind Approval

Nov 04, 2025

A U.S. District Court judge ruled on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's Interior Department may reconsider the Biden administration's approval of the SouthCoast Wind project planned off the coast of Massachusetts.The order sends the…

History Repeats Itself: Energy, Borders and the War Narrative in the Americas

Oct 31, 2025

Oil and gas have not only fueled economies but created rivalries, territorial disputes and wars. In the last one hundred years or so, since petroleum resources have been commercially extracted it is central to numerous armed conflicts. Some notable examples…

Equinor Extends Deepsea Bollsta Semi-Sub’s Stay off Norway

Oct 31, 2025

Offshore drilling contractor Northern Ocean has secured a contract extension with Equinor for Deepsea Bollsta semi-submersible drilling rig, which will be put to work on Johan Sverdrup, one of Norway’s most important offshore developments.The…

DeepOcean Gets Onboard Western Australian Decommissioning Project

Oct 30, 2025

Ocean services provider DeepOcean has secured a contract to support the decommissioning of subsea infrastructure at oil and gas fields in Western Australia.DeepOcean’s scope of work includes suspension of subsea trees, removal of flowlines, riser and dynamic umbilical…

EU-Backed Project Deploys OTEC Demonstration Unit off Canary Islands

Oct 24, 2025

A new storm-resistant ocean energy prototype has been installed off the coast of Gran Canaria, developed under the EU’s Horizon Europe-funded PLOTEC project, as a next step in harnessing ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) as a source of renewable energy…

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