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  • Cost reductions lift Prosafe 1Q numbers. Flotel demand to pick up from 2019

    4 May 2018
    Exploration & Production

    World’s largest offshore accommodation rig supplier Prosafe turned profitable in the first quarter of 2018, after posting a loss in the corresponding period of 2017.

  • Statoil brings Byrding field online

    28 July 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Oil giant Statoil has started production on the Byrding oil and gas field, which is north of the Troll field in the North Sea off Norway.  The Plan for Development and Operation of the Byrding oil and gas discovery, previously known as Astero, was submitted to Norwegian authorities in August 2016. According to plans, Byrding will […]

  • Offshore safety body checks Repsol’s emergency preparedness at Gyda

    20 March 2017

    Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found four improvement points during its audit of Repsol’s emergency preparedness and the helideck at the Gyda platform in the North Sea off Norway.  The Gyda field is located in the southern North Sea between Ula and Ekofisk. It has been developed using an integrated […]

  • DeepOcean enters Offshore Geotechnical Services market

    12 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    DeepOcean has made the decision to enter the market for Offshore Geotechnical Services. The Company has acquired a geotechnical drilling rig and entered into a Strategic Alliance with Geoquip Marine AG for the provision of Geotechnical Services in the Greater North Sea and collaboration world-wide. “The Offshore Geotechnical Services market is undersupplied and DeepOcean through […]

  • Elgin Incident: Total Begins Dynamic Kill Operations

    16 May 2012

    French supermajor Total informed the Department of Energy and Climate Change that their dynamic kill operation to try to stop the gas release from the Elgin well began yesterday. DECC have been working closely with TOTAL and gave environmental consent to the company earlier in May to pump heavy mud into the well via a […]

  • Romania’s GSP Lands Its First North Sea Drilling Contract

    9 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Grup Servicii Petroliere SA (GSP) has been awarded a contract by Wintershall Noordzee B.V., for offshore drilling. The first concerns the rig GSP Saturn, presently located on the continental shelf of Tunisia, which will be relocated to provide offshore drilling services under a long term contract, initially in the Dutch sector. GSP Saturn is scheduled […]

  • First Steel Cut for Carnival Cruise Line’s Newest and Largest Ship

    15 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Meyer Turku cut the first steel for Carnival Cruise Line’s newest ship.

  • Preffered Bidder Chosen for Ijmuiden Lock Scheme

    20 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Dutch Highways and Waterways Agency (Rijkswaterstaat) plans to award the construction of the new IJmuiden sea lock, located at the mouth of the North Sea Canal to Amsterdam, to the Consortium OpenIJ, which has been named the project’s preferred bidder. After contract close, the consortium, comprised of European construction group Royal BAM Group, Dutch construction group Volker […]

  • Alfa Laval Secures Qatar Contract

    6 September 2011

    Alfa Laval​ – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has received an order from a Japanese engineering company to supply heat exchangers for a new major natural gas project in Qatar. The order value is approximately SEK 90 million and delivery is scheduled for 2012. The order placed by […]

  • Panama Canal Authority to modify LNG toll structure

    2 June 2017

    The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) proposed modifications to its current toll structure modifying the tolls charged to LPG and LNG vessels.

  • Denmark: DONG Uses ‘Floating Hotel’ to Utilise Periods with Good Weather

    18 December 2012

    While the installation activity at Anholt wind farm is intensified, the personnel logistics is also optimised in the week before Christmas. On 1 December 2012, the floating hotel Wind Perfection arrived at Grenaa Harbour to be ready to take its position in the wind farm to act as floating hotel for the many technicians involved […]

  • Bilfinger to Produce Steel Foundations for Polish OWF

    5 December 2013

    The engineering and services group Bilfinger, along with Polish steel construction company Crist and the state-owned investment fund MARS, will together produce steel foundations for offshore wind turbines in Szczecin, Poland. At a celebratory ground-breaking, Poland’s Finance Minister Włodzimierz Karpiński and Member of the Executive Board at Bilfinger Joachim Enenkel signaled the start of construction […]

  • Full Power at Humber Gateway; Completion 2 Months ahead of Schedule

    5 June 2015

    With the final turbine at Humber Gateway recently becoming operational, the entire offshore wind farm is now generating electricity. This major project in the UK’s North Sea is in the final phase of construction and will be completed this summer, two months ahead of schedule, E.ON reported. Humber Gateway, which is located eight kilometers off […]

  • GWS Secures TWBII Contract

    4 December 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Jan De Nul Group has awarded Global Wind Service (GWS) with the installation and completion scope for the 200MW Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Energinet Seeks Seabed Survey Squad

    20 February 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Energinet has launched a tender seeking a contractor to carry out a seabed survey for an offshore wind farm in Denmark. Energinet is looking for a company to conduct site investigations at the site of the 800MW project and its export cable route in the North Sea and Baltic Seas, respectively. The tender is divided […]

  • Northwester 2 Turbines to Feature 27-Year Maintenance-Free Fasteners

    6 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    Northwester 2 turbines will be secured to their foundations with super duplex fasteners designed to be maintenance-free throughout the 27-year turbine design life. The stainless studs, nuts and washers for the 219MW Belgian offshore wind farm have been delivered to Bladt Industries by Swedish manufacturer BUMAX under a SEK 1.7 million (approx. EUR 160,000) contract. […]

  • Largest Offshore Wind Project Pays Homage to Historic Construction Site

    27 February 2020

    SSE Renewables and Equinor, the developers of the 3.6GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, have changed the names of the project’s phases to recognise their link to the historic Doggerland area where the wind farm will be built. The location used to be home to a Mesolithic community who lived across the Doggerland area around 12,000 […]

  • Danes to start offshore wind site surveys for Baltic Sea energy island

    30 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has given the green light to Energinet to start preliminary offshore investigations at the areas in the Baltic Sea where the country could build two offshore wind farms that would be connected to the planned energy island on Bornholm. Based on the permit from the DEA, Energinet will deploy survey […]

  • Aker Solutions and Stork Net Mariner Contract from Statoil

    27 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Aker Solutions secured a contract from Statoil to provide maintenance and modifications services for the Mariner oilfield development in the UK North Sea. The five-year framework agreement also has extension options for a total of four years.  Aker Solutions’ Aberdeen operations will manage the contract work. “Mariner is the largest new offshore development in the […]

  • Phoenix South-bound rig reaches South Africa

    1 February 2018
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    The Transocean-owned GSF Development Driller-1 semi-submersible drilling, set to drill the Phoenix South-3 well offshore Australia for Quadrant Energy, has reached South Africa.

  • Transocean scraps two, idles three rigs

    10 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has decided to scrap two semi-subs and idle two drillships and one semi-submersible drilling rig. The driller has also been awarded several new contracts.  In its latest fleet status report on Thursday the driller said that the deepwater semi-submersible M.G. Hulme, Jr. and the midwater semi-submersible GSF Rig 140 were classified as held […]

  • Sakhalin is priority region, says Rosneft vice-president

    24 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Rosneft delegation took part in Sakhalin Oil & Gas conference that takes place from 22nd – 25th September 2014, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. Rosneft vice-president Vlada Rusakova delivered a speech at the conference where she highlighted that Sakhalin is one of the priority regions of Rosneft’s production activity. Sakhalin-1 is the biggest offshore project, within the […]

  • DP World London Gateway Cuts Carbon Emissions by 28% in 2016

    28 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    DP World London Gateway Port informed it reduced its carbon emissions by 28% per TEU in 2016. As explained, a significant increase in the number of containers being handled by the port as well as the introduction of hybrid-electric shuttle carriers to the port’s operations, better recording and tracking of energy use, and reduced energy […]

  • Gwynt y Môr Keeps Giving Back

    27 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    RWE Innogy UK has pledged further GBP 383,000 to north Wales communities from the community fund linked to the 576MW Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm, bringing the total amount invested in the area from the wind farm to over GBP 500,000 since the fund was launched in June 2015. 30 not-for-profit groups have benefited directly from Gwynt […]

  • Statoil set for Kayak well as drilling permit comes in

    7 June 2017
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for well 7219/9-2, in the Barents Sea off Norway.   The drilling program for well 7219/9-2, in a prospect named Kayak, relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production license 532 where Statoil is the operator with 50 percent interest and the […]