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Talos to Acquire US Gulf of Mexico E&P Company for $1.3B

Jan 16, 2024

Talos Energy has executed definitive agreements to acquire QuarterNorth Energy, a U.S. Gulf of Mexico exploration and production company with ownership in several prolific offshore fields, for $1.29 billion.The acquisition will boost Talos’…

N-Sea Charters Geo Plus' Survey and ROV Support Vessel

Jan 15, 2024

Subsea solutions provider N-Sea Group announced it has entered into an agreement with Geo Plus to long term charter the Dutch flagged vessel Geo Ranger, a hybrid survey and ROV support vessel.The Geo Ranger will accompany the Geo Focus which is already under N-Sea management and control…

US DOE’s TEAMER Awards $1.3M to Marine Energy Researchers

Jan 12, 2024

The U.S. Testing Expertise and Access to Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) Program, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has selected 10 projects to share $1.3 million for marine energy-related research.The projects have been selected…

ExxonMobil’s Prosperity FPSO Achieves Background Flare in 39 Days

Jan 12, 2024

ExxonMobil Guyana has unveiled that the Prosperity floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, used in the Payara project, achieved background flare in 39 days, ahead of the 60-day target.Achieved ahead of schedule outlined in the project’s environmental permit…

MODEC Contracts Jumbo Offshore for FPSO Errea Wittu Job

Jan 11, 2024

Jumbo Offshore has been awarded a contract by MODEC for the pre-installation of the mooring spread of the FPSO Errea Wittu, which will be located at Uaru field offshore Guyana.The FPSO Errea Wittu will have the capacity to store 2 million barrels of oil…

Minesto’s Utility-Scale Tidal Energy Kite About to Take Off

Jan 11, 2024

Swedish tidal energy company Minesto has completed the installation of subsea infrastructure and verified the launch and recovery procedures for the 1.2 MW tidal energy device that will soon be deployed offshore Faroe Islands.The device, dubbed Dragon 12…

Investing in Subsea Decommissioning Pays Off, Decom Engineering Finds

Jan 11, 2024

Decom Engineering has completed the first deployment of its largest subsea Chopsaw to date, achieving substantial time savings of almost 300% on a decommissioning job in the North Sea.Following the $1.2 million (£1 million) investment to develop…

Azule Energy to Use FutureOn’s Digital Twin Software on Four Oil Projects

Jan 11, 2024

Angola-based Azule Energy has awarded a three-year contract with extension options to Norwegian company FutureOn for its FieldTwin digital design and visualization platform.Azule Energy – a standalone integrated energy company combining the…

Hollandse Kust (west) Alpha Offshore Substation Set for Wind Turbines Link-Up

Jan 11, 2024

The grid connection for Hollandse Kust (west) Alpha offshore substation is officially ready for commissioning after receiving grid readiness certificate three months ahead of schedule.This means that wind farm operator Ecowende can connect the wind turbines…

Scana’s PSW Technology Divests Well Control Equipment

Jan 11, 2024

PSW Technology has signed a contract to divest well control equipment to an international oil and gas company.The transaction is expected to be conducted through a cash settlement and is of substantial value, with the sales amount at the higher end of the value range…

Equinor Bites Dust in North Sea Offshore Norway

Jan 11, 2024

Equinor’s exploration well 30/4-4 in the North Sea has come up dry, Norway’s regulator of the petroleum resources Norwegian Offshore Directorate has informed.The well was drilled about seven kilometers north of the Martin Linge field in the North Sea and 180 kilometers west of Bergen…

Nauticus Robotics Streamlines Business Ops

Jan 10, 2024

Nauticus Robotics, a U.S. developer of autonomous vehicles and robots for data collection and intervention services for offshore industries, has secured fresh funding for its operations and appointed new executive management team.The new investment…

Valaris Nets Over $1B in Rig Contract Awards and Extensions

Jan 10, 2024

Offshore drilling company Valaris has secured approximately $1.14 billion in new contracts and contract extensions for its drillships and jack-up rigs across the Americas, Europe and Australia.The $1.14 billion worth contracts were awarded in the last two months of 2023…

Verlume Granted Fit4Offshore Renewables Status

Jan 08, 2024

Scottish energy management and storage technologies specialist Verlume has achieved the ‘Granted' status from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Fit For Offshore Renewables (F4OR) program.Designed as a business improvement programme and to build energy sector specific capability…

Libra Consortium Reaches FID for Mero Field’s Innovative Subsea Tech

Jan 08, 2024

Libra Consortium has taken the final investment decision (FID) to develop an innovative natural gas and CO2 separation and reinjection facility for the Mero 3 project in the Brazilian deep offshore pre-salt.The pilot unit, using a pioneer high pressure subsea separation technology (HISEP)…

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