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DNV Certifies Buchan Floating Offshore Wind Foundation Design

Oct 07, 2026

Buchan Offshore Wind has secured DNV Basic Design Certification for the BW Ideol-designed concrete Damping Pool floating foundation planned for its nearly 1 GW project off Scotland, marking a further engineering milestone ahead of commercial-scale development…

Cadeler Wraps Up Turbine Installation Job at Poland’s First Offshore Wind Farm

Oct 07, 2026

Danish contractor Cadeler has completed installation of all 76 wind turbines at the 1.2 GW Baltic Power project, Poland's first offshore wind farm, using its jack-up vessels Wind Osprey and Wind Mover.The completion of the turbine campaign moves…

Valaris Adds $220M to Offshore Drilling Backlog

Oct 07, 2026

Valaris has added about $220 million to its contract backlog through new offshore drilling contracts and extensions since its previous fleet update in August, including work in Suriname, Australia and the North Sea.The offshore driller secured…

Costs Rise for Aker BP's Yggdrasil and Valhall-Fenris Oil and Gas Projects

Oct 07, 2026

The cost of Aker BP's major ongoing oil and gas development projects, Yggdrasil and Valhall-Fenris, has risen by 9.8% and 23%, respectively, from nominal estimates a year ago, data from the government's fiscal budget showed on Wednesday.The…

Verlume Clears Key Test for Offshore Wind Subsea Battery

Oct 07, 2026

Verlume has completed hyperbaric testing of the enclosure for its Orah subsea energy storage system, clearing a qualification milestone ahead of its planned deployment at the OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea.The testing was…

Shell Raises Gas Output Outlook After Q2 Slump

Oct 07, 2026

Shell's third-quarter integrated gas production was expected to be about 740,000 to 780,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, the company said on Wednesday, compared with a previously expected range of 570,000 to 630,000 boed.In the second quarter…

Chevron Joins SLB, TotalEnergies Digital Subsurface Collaboration

Oct 06, 2026

Chevron Technical Center has joined a long-term digital subsurface collaboration between SLB and TotalEnergies to co-develop technologies for reservoir engineering and geoscience.The collaboration, known as Arena, was established by SLB and…

Equinor Warns Rosebank, Jackdaw Rejection Could Deter UK Investment

Oct 06, 2026

Failure to secure approval for the Rosebank and Jackdaw projects would be a major setback for Equinor's Adura joint venture with Shell in the North Sea, Equinor CEO Anders Opedal said on Tuesday.'Not approving Rosebank would be contradictory to energy security…

TWMA Takes Multi-Million-Dollar North Sea Drilling Services Job

Oct 06, 2026

Drilling waste management specialist TWMA has secured a multi-million-dollar contract from an unnamed North Sea operator to provide offshore drilling waste management services for a multi-well campaign in the UK North Sea.The contract, awarded under an existing agreement…

Lloyd’s Register Clears GasEntec’s High-Capacity FSRU Concept

Oct 06, 2026

Lloyd's Register (LR) has awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) to GasEntec for a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) concept capable of delivering up to 1 billion cubic feet of gas per day, placing it among the highest-capacity FSRU designs currently under development…

MacGregor to Equip IWS’ Four Skywalker-Class CSOV Newbuilds

Oct 06, 2026

MacGregor has received an order from Nantong Rainbow Offshore & Engineering Equipment to supply motion-compensated cranes and gangways for four additional Skywalker-class commissioning service operation vessels being built for IWS Fleet.The…

Reach Subsea Keeps Deep Cygnus Subsea Vessel for Another Year

Oct 05, 2026

Reach Subsea has exercised a one-year option to extend the charter for Deep Cygnus subsea vessel from Havila Subsea & Renewables, keeping the vessel in its fleet through March 2028.The original charter, announced in July 2022, covered a four-year period with an option for an additional year…

Halliburton Steers Clear of Sea Lion Project off Falkland Islands

Oct 05, 2026

Halliburton has ruled out working on the Sea Lion oil project near the Falkland Islands after Argentine federal authorities raised questions over potential criminal and civil enforcement related to hydrocarbon activities around the disputed territory…

Orcadian Terminates UK Offshore Data Center Development Deal

Oct 05, 2026

Orcadian Energy and an unnamed U.S. offshore data center developer have terminated an agreement to jointly develop an offshore energy-to-compute project using gas resources from Orcadian's Earlham and Orwell discoveries in UK waters.The companies…

Ithaca Energy Buys Suncor Energy’s Canadian Oil Assets for $860M

Oct 05, 2026

Ithaca Energy has agreed to acquire Suncor Energy's interests in the Terra Nova and White Rose oil assets offshore eastern Canada for $860 million in cash, marking its first international acquisition outside the UK.The deal includes a 48% operated interest in Terra Nova…

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