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  • GBRMPA: New Details on Seabed Dredging (Australia)

    4 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Under questioning during Senate Estimates in Canberra, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) revealed that the impacts of seabed dredging for coal port developments along the Great Barrier Reef coast could be far worse than previously understood. “This new information means Environment Minister Tony Burke must knock-back the dredging permit application that’s currently […]

  • Papua New Guinea Government Criticized for Approving First Deep-Sea Mine

    2 March 2011
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

      Papua New Guinea’s government is being criticised for approving the world’s first deep-sea mine. Nautilus Minerals, of Canada, was awarded a licence in January to extract gold and copper from the floor of the Bismarck Sea, about 50 kilometres north of Rabaul. The project’s environmental impact statement has been approved by the PNG government […]

  • UOG closes sale of North Sea blocks to Hibiscus

    12 December 2019

    United Oil & Gas has completed the sale of the North Sea Blocks 15/18d and 15/19b (License P2366) to Hibiscus for a headline consideration of up to $5 million.

  • Neptune gets green light for two North Sea projects

    26 June 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Neptune Energy has confirmed that its development plans for the Duva (PL636) and Gjøa P1 (PL153) projects in the North Sea have been approved by Norwegian authorities.

  • Noble Corp. narrows 1Q loss. CEO sees jack-up market improving

    3 May 2018
    Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling company Noble Corp. is seeing improvement in the offshore rig market, with the jack-up rig market driving the demand uptick.

  • Workers evacuated from North Sea platform ahead of storm

    6 December 2017

    Workers have been evacuated from the Ninian Southern platform in the UK North Sea ahead of a storm. According to the UK media, the operator CNR International is removing 69 of 159 offshore workers from the platform as the Storm Caroline, which is expected to bring gales to Scotland on Thursday, approaches. The platform is […]

  • Atlantic Offshore Rescue unveils ERRV Ocean Falcon as part of fleet modernisation

    29 May 2015

    Atlantic Offshore Rescue, a standby vessel operator, will today, May 29, unveil the third new vessel in the past 12 months as part of its fleet modernisation programme, representing an investment totalling £300 million ($458.9 million). Ocean Falcon, a brand new Class A Multi Role and Emergency Response and Rescue (MRV/ERRV) vessel, is to be christened at a […]

  • PSA audits barrier management on Ivar Aasen

    12 November 2014
    Equipment

    From 23 to 25 September 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway carried out an audit of Det norske oljeselskap ASA (Det norske) and barrier management in the Ivar Aasen development project, in the North Sea.  The Ivar Aasen field is situated west of the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea, around 30 kilometres south of […]

  • Subsea 7 orders Maxccess walk to work system for project off Angola

    3 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Tyne Gangway and OSBIT Power have received a multi-million pound order to provide an innovative telescopic gangway system for offshore services contractor Subsea 7. Tyne Gangway and Osbit Power joined forces to design and manufacture the MaXccess P35 telescopic gangway system, for installation at the Lianzi oil field off the coast of Angola, which is due to […]

  • Medserv to provide support services to Eni in Cyprus

    12 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Italian oil company Eni have appointed Medserv (Cyprus) Ltd to provide them with operational base support services. The contract is for three years with a possible extension for an additional two years. “The value of the contract runs well into the multi-million Euro mark, making the Eastern Mediterranean presently the main source of income for […]

  • Norway: Statoil Hands Over Gjoa Development Operatorship to GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS

    25 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    The operatorship of the Gjøa development in the Norwegian North Sea is being handed over by Statoil today, 25 November, to production operator GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS. With the ending of this big industrial project, the group is beginning a new phase together with GDF SUEZ of further important production from the Norwegian continental […]

  • UK: Ithaca Energy Announces Progress on FPSO BW Athena

    9 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Ithaca Energy Inc. announces progress on the BW Athena Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The FPSO conversion scope, which is the responsibility of BW Offshore, has proved to be more extensive than was envisaged at the start of the project. In spite of the increase in the amount of work required, BW Offshore […]

  • Alphaliner: 2M Suspension of Asia-Europe String Too Late

    19 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    The 2M carriers, Danish Maersk and Switzerland-based MSC, have decided to suspend regular sailings of their Asia to North Europe string ‘AE-9/Condor’ from September amid collapsing freight rates spurred by lower demand on the trade this year. Total demand on the headhaul trade dropped by 3.5 % during the first half of 2015, while average […]

  • BG Raises Tanzania Resource Estimate

    10 December 2013

    BG Group announced an increase in total recoverable resources for the Mzia discovery and across Blocks 1, 3 and 4 offshore southern Tanzania, marking the conclusion of a successful drilling and testing campaign. The campaign confirmed Mzia as the second giant gas discovery, after Jodari, in BG Group’s acreage offshore Tanzania, with 4.7 trillion cubic […]

  • InterOil Gets New CEO (PNG)

    11 July 2013

    InterOil Corporation announced that Dr. Michael Hession will join the company as Chief Executive Officer effective July 11, 2013. Dr. Hession has over 25 years of international exploration, operation and commercial experience, most recently as a Senior Vice President at Browse LNG Development, a division of Woodside Energy Ltd, where he has been responsible for […]

  • Australia: John Holland Wins Gorgon Contract

    4 May 2011
    Project & Tenders

      John Holland has secured a significant contract with Chevron to carry out the design and construction of permanent buildings on the Chevron-operated Gorgon Project, one of the world’s largest natural gas projects and the largest single resource natural gas project ever undertaken in Australia. With a contract value of over $180 million, John Holland’s […]

  • OPT and Premier Oil ink deal for lead-in PowerBuoy o&g lease

    28 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has signed a contract with Premier Oil to supply its wave-harnessing PowerBuoy for the deployment in an oil and gas field in the Central North Sea.

  • REpower introduces new MM-series wind turbine (Germany)

    26 October 2010
    Technology

    * REpower MM100 with 1.8 MW rated power developed especially for the North American market * Turbine to be presented to the public at the CanWEA wind energy trade fair in Canada for the first time REpower Systems AG (WKN 617703) will present its new MM100 wind turbine at the CanWEA Canadian wind energy trade […]

  • JDR to Supply Sandbank OWF Inter-Array Cables

    23 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Storage, Technology

    VBMS has awarded JDR the inter-array cable contract for the Vattenfall AB Sandbank offshore wind farm. JDR will design and manufacture 105 kilometres of inter-array cable, including a new coilable 630mm2 copper core cable and a range of cable accessories. The Sandbank offshore wind farm will be constructed 90km west of Sylt island, within the […]

  • DONG Starts Hornsea Project Three Public Consultation Process

    30 September 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Storage

    DONG Energy has started the first phase of the public consultation process on the 2.4GW Hornsea Project Three wind farm proposed to be built off the North Norfolk coast, UK. The first phase of the consultation includes the first round of community consultation events, scheduled to occur in late autumn 2016, as shown in the table […]

  • Highlights of the Month – December 2019

    2 January 2020

    We bring you the ten most-read articles on OffshoreWIND.biz for the month of December 2019. Turbines Wanted for 900MW German Offshore Wind Farm EnBW He Dreiht GmbH is seeking a turbine supplier for the 900MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Ming Yang Rolls Out First 10MW Turbine Nacelle China’s Ming […]

  • UK: Ministerial Visit to North East Logistics Hubs

    20 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin, has visited two major businesses in the North East to learn more about the region’s port and logistics capabilities. The senior government figure visited PD Ports, owners and operators of Teesport, the North East’s premier container port, before moving to Wynyard Park, and the […]

  • Israel: Noble Energy sells more Leviathan gas

    1 December 2016

    U.S. oil and gas firm Noble Energy has managed to find another buyer for the Leviathan field gas. According to Delek, Noble’s partner in the project located in the Mediterranean Sea offshore Israel, the Leviathan partners have signed a deal to sell gas from the Leviathan to Or Power Energies (Dalia). The buyer will use […]

  • SapuraKencana PLSV starts Petrobras job

    2 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Malaysia’s upstream oil and gas services provider SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad, has reached a key milestone in its international operations by starting ahead of schedule its first pipe-laying support vessel (PLSV) work for state-run Petrobras in the pre-salt waters off Brazil. This maiden foray for the SapuraKencana in Brazilian waters was undertaken by its brand new PLSV “Sapura […]

  • Australia: Ballina Still Waits for Dredging

    1 November 2012

    The urgent need for dredging at Ballina’s sand bar causes concerns for local fishermen, reports echonews. Although the dredging project was discussed several times, nothing has been done yet. Before the dredging begins, an impact study has to show how the project would affect the environment. After the analysis of this study, a lot of […]