Offshore Energy News


Brazil Sets Parameters for Mega Oil Auction

May 10, 2019

Brazil's national energy council on Thursday published updated parameters for a massive oil auction scheduled for later this year, including minimum levels of profit-sharing with the government, while also urging a shakeup in the refinery sector…

EDS HV Wins North Hoyle O&M Deal

May 10, 2019

European energy company Innogy has awarded the high voltage engineering specialist  EDS HV Group a contract on behalf of project owners Greencoat Wind UK for operations and maintenance management at North Hoyle offshore wind farm in Liverpool Bay off the UK's north west coast…

NPD Grants Drilling Permit to Equinor

May 10, 2019

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor Energy AS, the Norwegian multinational energy company, a drilling permit for wells 16/1-30 S and 16/1-30.The drilling programme for 16/1-30 S and 16/1-30 A relates to drilling of appraisal wells in production licence 167…

DOF Subsea Bags North Sea Contracts

May 10, 2019

Norwegian subsea shipping company DOF Subsea has recently secured several new contracts for project scopes to be carried out over the next few months in the North Sea. The Oslo-listed international subsea operating company said in a press note that the contracts…

Vattenfall Starts Hollandse Kust Zuid

May 09, 2019

Development of the first unsubsidized offshore wind farm is well underway off the Dutch coast after bouts of bad weather delayed the project earlier this year, said Swedish power company Vattenfall.The European energy company is building the…

Ørsted Orders CTV Pair in the US

May 09, 2019

Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind has entered into an agreement with the offshore wind support services provider WindServe Marine LLC to construct a two purpose-built offshore crew transfer vessels (CTVs).The first CTV will be built by US Workboats in Hubert…

NPD Bullish on Barents Sea

May 09, 2019

Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said that its estimates indicate that more than half of the oil and gas that has not yet been discovered is located in the Barents Sea.The rest is distributed between the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea…

From KPMG: Visions of Cheese

May 08, 2019

Whilst we are seeing a clear uptick in activity and the UK oil and gas industry is certainly on the way up again, the industry must continue to move forward. However, under current market conditions, how can companies capitalize on change whilst remaining stable and sustainable and…

Ørsted Taps Green Bonds for Hornsea 2

May 08, 2019

Denmark's largest energy company Ørsted A/S plans to issue green senior bonds in the UK-market to finance its green growth ambition towards 2025 including the investments in 1,386MW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm.With the bond issuance, Ørsted…

Keppel-Aibel Team Wins German Offshore Gig

May 08, 2019

Norwegian energy services provider Aibel AS and a unit of Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corporation have jointly won a contract to deliver two converter stations as part of the DolWin cluster servicing German offshore wind farms.The grid operator TenneT Offshore has tasked Aibel and Keppel O&M…

Axxis Hires Havila Vessel

May 08, 2019

The offshore service vessels operator Havila Shipping said that it has entered into charter contract with Axxis Geo Solution AS, an ocean bottom node seismic company, for the platform supply vessel (PSV) Havila Aurora.The Norwegean operator of a number of vessels…

Sabah Shell Appoints BMT for Offshore Malaysia

May 08, 2019

The Malaysian subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell Sabah Shell Petroleum Company said that it has signed an offshore Master Service Agreement (MSA) with BMT.The three-year agreement will see BMT provide maintenance oil and gas services for the Gumusut-Kakap and Malikai deepwater platforms in Malaysia…

800bln Undiscovered Barrels of Oil and Gas Exist Globally

May 08, 2019

Total greenfield project sanctioning, summed up to the present day, only accounts for 40% of estimated volumes of offshore projects ever being sanctioned, said Rystad Energy, the  energy research and consultancy headquartered in Norway.'Likewise…

QP Issues Tender for LNG Facilities

May 08, 2019

Qatar Petroleum (QP) invites tender for Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) to expand its common lean liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage, and the loading and export facilities for its North Field Expansion (NFE) Project aimed to…

BSEE Revises Well Control Rule

May 07, 2019

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) released what it said were “the final improved Blowout Preventer Systems and Well Control regulations”The Well Control Rule is a part of an ongoing…

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