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  • SABIC Orders Two LNG-Powered Tankers, The Netherlands

    13 November 2012
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has commissioned the construction of two sea going gas tankers powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) to transport its olefins products, in anticipation of a European Union directive to drastically reduce sulphur emissions from vessels operating in the North Sea by 2015. Switching to alternative fuels for ships, such as […]

  • USA: Apache Reports Strong Q1 Results

    4 May 2012

    Apache Corporation reported record worldwide production in the first-quarter of 2012 as the company benefitted from higher prices for oil and natural gas liquids and its balanced approach helped it weather the continuing deterioration of North  American natural gas prices. Daily production increased 7 percent over the same period the prior year, adjusted for dispositions. […]

  • Tyra II hook-up and commissioning one step closer

    28 December 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    The crane on the process module at Tyra II has been put into permanent use, representing a milestone in the hook-up and commissioning campaign of the field redevelopment project in the Danish North Sea. Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) reported on 23 December that the crane on the process module (TEG) is in permanent use. According […]

  • Partners starting workover campaign to restore shut-in well at Australian oil field

    9 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Workover operations are starting with an aim to restore production from a well on the Cliff Head oil field located offshore Australia.

  • Norway gathering survey team for offshore wind zones

    13 May 2022
    Environment

    Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) has tasked the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) with conducting surveys in connection with awarding acreage for offshore wind. The NPD will plan and implement a tendering process for preliminary surveys in the areas of Sørlige Nordsjø II and Utsira Nord, which were opened for applications for renewable energy […]

  • SeaMade in full array

    1 December 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The wind turbine installation at the SeaMade offshore wind farm was completed on 30 November, with the 58th and final unit erected at the project site located 50 kilometres off the Belgian coast in the North Sea. DEME, the EPCI contractor for the project, started installing the foundations in September 2019, using its jack-up vessel […]

  • Wintershall Dea targets 30 pct reduction in CO2 emissions with new supply vessel

    5 November 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels

    Wintershall Dea will reduce annual emissions on supply vessel services to the Brage platform by up to 30% when the Viking Princess vessel goes on contract.

  • St Peter Port Dredging Works About to Begin

    15 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    The maintenance dredging work, which will improve a number of areas in St Peter Port Harbor that are used primarily by visiting vessels, is about to begin, according to the States of Guernsey. The operation will focus on the Victoria Marina, between the Albert and Victoria (Crown) Piers, and two areas adjacent to the marina entrance in […]

  • Van Oord, Seajacks Win East Anglia One Foundations Setup Project

    17 January 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    ScottishPower Renewables has contracted marine engineering specialist Van Oord and Great Yarmouth-based Seajacks to transport and install the foundation jackets on the East Anglia One offshore wind farm. The main installation vessel will be Seajacks Scylla. The contract should support 140 current positions with Seajacks, and allows the company to create up to 75 new jobs. […]

  • Serica Resumes Production from Erskine Field

    29 July 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    Serica informed that oil and gas production from the Erskine field has recommenced following the clearance of a pipeline blockage and the completion of scheduled maintenance works on the Lomond platform, in the UK North Sea. The pipeline blockage, which occurred earlier this year in the Lomond to Everest condensate export line, was caused when a […]

  • Offshore workers stage strike on Statoil’s Mariner platform

    9 April 2018

    Offshore workers on Statoil-operated Mariner platform located in the UK sector of the North Sea staged an unofficial strike over the weekend.

  • Lundin begins Barents Sea drilling campaign

    21 July 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Lundin Petroleum’s wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway has started the 2016 exploration and appraisal campaign in the Loppa High area in the southern Barents Sea. Lundin will be using Ocean Rig’s winterized Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig for the 2016 drilling campaign which consists of three wells starting with the re-entry of the Alta-3 appraisal […]

  • Golar Power to Provide FSRU for Brazilian LNG Terminal

    22 October 2019

    The LNG terminal is expected to start operations by mid-2021.

  • Trinidad’s LNG production rising after years of decline

    7 November 2017
    Ports & Logistics

    Trinidad and Tobago’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) production is gradually picking up helped by new upstream developments after years of decline due to gas supply shortfalls in the twin-island country. LNG production at Atlantic LNG’s Point Fortin liquefaction and export facility rose 1 percent to 18.4 million cubic meters in the January-September period as compared […]

  • USA: BOEM Reduces Offshore Wind Energy Area

    27 February 2012

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)  announced that it reduced the size of the offshore Wind Energy Area between Rhode Island and Massachusetts by excluding commercially important fishing grounds. The reduced Wind Energy Area includes approximately 164,750 acres within the original area identified by Rhode Island and Massachusetts in a 2010 memorandum of understanding. […]

  • Polenergia to Start Building 600MW Baltic Middle III in 2019

    5 August 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Polenergia plans to start constructing the 600MW Baltic Środkowy III (Baltic Middle III) offshore wind farm in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea in 2019, with the commissioning of the wind farm planned for 2021 or 2022. The Polish energy company has recently become the first operator in Poland to obtain an environmental permit for the […]

  • Pakistan Needs Iranian Gas

    3 July 2011

    A senior Pakistani Petroleum Ministry official called for early completion of the Iranian gas pipeline and said that delay would further complicate Pakistan’s energy crisis. Secretary ministry of petroleum and natural resources, Muhammad Ejaz Chuadhry said Iran-Pakistan project would start supply from 2014 adding that if it got late then gas crisis in the country […]

  • ‘We have steel in the water’

    8 April 2016

    In Baltimore last September at the AWEA Offshore WINDPOWER conference the buzz words heard over and over again were “we have steel in the water.” This is, of course, a reference to the jacket foundations for the five French built GE Haliade 6MW wind turbines which will be installed on the first North American Offshore […]

  • Tower Conference 2011 Wraps up (USA)

    18 October 2011

      The German American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern US, Inc. and the Texas Wind Energy Clearinghouse were proudly gathered in the main auditorium after the 2nd Texas Offshore Wind Energy Roundtable (TOWER) Conference had been carried out successfully. Rounding up top industry leaders and experts, the 2nd annual TOWER Conference was enhanced by […]

  • Two oil & gas firms agree on more time to wrap up divestment of North Sea discovery

    8 August 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

     Quattro Energy Limited has agreed on a long stop date extension for the acquisition of United Oil & Gas’ license in the Central North Sea, which includes an existing hydrocarbon discovery. 

  • Top News of 2017 – Editors’ Picks

    2 January 2018

    The Offshore WIND editorial team brings you a list of what, in our opinion, were the most significant developments in the offshore wind industry in 2017. Germany Accepts First Subsidy-Free Offshore Wind Auction Bid Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur has selected three offshore wind projects by DONG Energy and one project by EnBW in the first auction for […]

  • Vår Energi to address nonconformity for its FPSO modification project

    16 December 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Vessels

    Norwegian regulator has carried out an audit of Vår Energi and its management of barriers and maintenance on an FPSO modification project.

  • Aker BP all set to drill North Sea wildcat

    20 April 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Aker BP has received a drilling permit from Norwegian authorities for a wildcat well located in the North Sea off Norway.

  • Noble Energy defers Colombian well plans and Maersk drillship contract

    20 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Noble Energy has changed its contract for a Maersk Drilling-owned drillship following a decision not to drill a well off Colombia this year.

  • The Netherlands: IHC Engineering Business and SAS to Deliver Lay System to McDermott International

    30 November 2010
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The SURF (subsea umbilical riser and flowline) installation market is expanding and pushing into ever-deeper waters. At the same time IHC Engineering Business (IHC EB) has seen a dramatic expansion of its range of pipe and cable lay systems, with a number of large scale projects delivered, or ongoing. A 300-tonne system will shortly be […]