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Pre-FEED Work Begins for CCS Project Off Australia

Apr 17, 2025

The Bonaparte CCS joint venture, involving Inpex Corporation, TotalEnergies and Woodside Energy, has started pre-fronte-end engineering design (pre-FEED) work to support the development of the Bonaparte carbon capture and storage (CCS) project offshore Australia…

ADNOC Drilling Gets $1.63B Integrated Offshore Drilling Services Contract

Apr 17, 2025

ADNOC Drilling has secured a $1.63 billion, five-year contract for integrated drilling services (IDS) from ADNOC Offshore.The contract covers the provision of directional drilling, drilling fluids, cementing, wireline logging and tubular running services…

Woodside Signs LNG Supply Deal with Germany’s Uniper

Apr 17, 2025

Australian gas producer Woodside Energy has signed LNG sale and purchase agreements with German-based Uniper for the supply of gas from its global portfolio.Under the agreement, Woodside will supply 1.0 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) from Louisiana LNG and up to 1…

BP Loads First LNG Shipment from Greater Tortue Ahmeyim Project

Apr 17, 2025

BP has completed the loading of the first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for export from its Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Phase 1 project offshore Mauritania and Senegal, following flow of first gas from the project achieved earlier in 2025…

US Halts Empire Wind Project

Apr 16, 2025

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered a halt to construction on Equinor's Empire Wind project off the coast of New York, saying information suggested the Biden administration approved it without enough environmental analysis.In a post on X on Wednesday…

China's First Offshore Hydrogen-Ammonia-Methanol Platform Starts Operating

Apr 16, 2025

China's first integrated offshore hydrogen-ammonia-methanol project, which will produce clean fuels for ships, has entered the trial operation phase in Yantai, in eastern Chinse province of Shandong.Jointly developed by CHN Energy Hydrogen Energy Technology…

Gas Reserves Estimate Goes Up at Shell’s Selene Prospect in North Sea

Apr 16, 2025

Shell has revealed ‘significantly better’ porosity and permeability properties at its Selene gas prospect in the North Sea, following the analysis of the data from the well drilled in 2024, prompting its partner Deltic Energy to raise estimates of recoverable gas reserves by 33%…

India Stretches Bids Deadline for 13 Offshore Deep-Sea Mineral Blocks

Apr 16, 2025

India has extended an auction of deep-sea blocks containing critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other products until May 1, a spokesperson at India's Ministry of Mines said on Wednesday.China is a top global producer of 30 of the 50 minerals considered critical by the U…

Indonesia Awards Oil and Gas Blocks to Boost Reserves

Apr 16, 2025

Indonesia awarded five oil and gas blocks to companies, its energy ministry said on Wednesday, as it attempts to replenish its oil and gas reserves and improve its energy security.Over the coming years, the government plans to offer nearly 60…

Cerulean Winds Forms Executive Team for Floating Wind Farms Delivery

Apr 16, 2025

Cerulean Winds, the lead developer of the Aspen, Beech and Cedar floating offshore wind farms, has appointed two new senior executives to help shape the future of the company.Tom Scrope joins as Cerulean Winds’ first Chief Financial Officer (CFO)…

Kim Heng’s Rebuilt Geotechnical Survey Vessel Sets Sail

Apr 16, 2025

Singapore's offshore services firm Kim Heng has held a christening ceremony for the Bridgewater Discovery, a DP2 geotechnical survey vessel, rebuilt in 2024.With the Bridgewater Discovery vessel, Kim Heng has marked another milestone in its expansion into the renewable business sector…

Purus’ CSOV Newbuild Ready for Offshore Wind Ops (Video)

Apr 16, 2025

Purus’ new commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV), built by Vard, has completed sea trials and will soon embark on its maiden offshore wind job for Vestas.The owner and and operator of service operation vessel Purus has informed its first of the two CSOV vessel…

Lamprell Extends Long-Term Offshore Contract with Aramco

Apr 16, 2025

Offshore construction firm Lamprell has secured an extension of its longstanding offshore long-term agreement with Aramco, strengthening strategic collaboration ongoing since 2018.The renewal reaffirms Lamprell’s technical and operational expertise…

Malaysian Firm Enters Cable Laying Business with Vessel Acquisition

Apr 16, 2025

Malaysia-based fleet owner of self-propelled accommodation workboats Keyfield International has set out plans to acquire a newly-built DP2 cable-laying barge for $20.5 million, marking its expansion into cable laying market.The 98-meter-long barge…

Sapura Energy Nets $22.6M in Offshore Support Vessel Contracts

Apr 16, 2025

Malaysia-based offshore services firm Sapura Energy, through its Offshore Support Vessel & Geosciences business, has secured multiple vessel contracts in Malaysia and Thailand, worth around $22.6 million.The newly secured contract will keep…

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