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Petrobras Cleared to Clear Corals Off Drilling Vessel

Mar 11, 2025

Petrobras obtained approval from the country's environmental agency to clear corals from the underside of the drilling vessel it plans to use in the Foz do Amazonas region, Reuters reports. Its February 10 request was granted on Monday for the…

Second Hai Long Substation Heads to Project Site Offshore Taiwan

Mar 11, 2025

Consortium partners Semco Maritime and PTSC M&C have completed the load-out and sail-away of the second and last offshore substation for the Hai Long Offshore wind project in Taiwan.The load-out and sail-away of the second substation for Hai Long 3 offshore wind farm…

Van Oord’s Giant Wind Installation Vessel Boreas Reaches Netherlands

Mar 11, 2025

Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Boreas has arrived in the Netherlands after a voyage from China of almost 14,700 nautical miles for final outfitting and christening before embarking on its first offshore wind project.The Boreas is currently docked at TMA Logistics in the Port of Amsterdam…

Palfinger Marine to Equip DOF’s New OSV

Mar 10, 2025

Palfinger Marine has secured a contract by CRIST S.A. in Poland to supply a comprehensive equipment package for a next-generation Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) under construction for DOF Group.As part of the comprehensive equipment package, Palfinger Marine will supply a fully electric…

Vard Cuts First Steel for Island Offshore’s Hybrid Construction Vessel

Mar 07, 2025

Norwegian shipbuilder Vard has marked the start of construction of Island Offshore’s hybrid power ocean energy construction vessel (OECV) at its shipyard in Romania.Vard secured the order for the vessel, named Island Evolution, from Island Offshore back in May 2024…

MOL’s Green Hydrogen Production Vessel Makes First Onshore Delivery

Mar 07, 2025

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced that green hydrogen produced from offshore wind using the demonstration yacht Winz Maru was supplied onshore in the central breakwater area of Tokyo, as part of the Wind Hunter Project.This marks the first…

BW Energy Makes ‘Substantial’ Oil Discovery Off Gabon

Mar 07, 2025

BW Energy has made a ‘substantial’ oil discovery with good reservoir quality on the Bourdon prospect in the Dussafu license, offshore Gabon. The well was drilled by Borr Drilling’s Norve jack-up rig to a total depth of 4,135 meters.Evaluation…

TDI-Brooks Adds to Africa Project List with Nigerian Survey

Mar 04, 2025

TDI-Brooks recently secured a contract with Compass Survey Limited to conduct a series of 2D Ultra High-Resolution (2DUHR) seismic site surveys and pipeline route assessments for SPDC offshore Nigeria.These projects involve the acquisition of…

Akastor Sells Skandi Peregrino AHTS Vessel for $25M

Mar 04, 2025

Akastor, through its fully-owned subsidiary DDW Offshore, has entered into a binding agreement to sell Skandi Peregrino anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel.Skandi Peregrino AHTS has been sold for the purchase price of $25 million to an unnamed buyer…

Global Offshore Wind Prospects to Rebound in 2025

Mar 03, 2025

The global offshore wind industry is poised for a rebound in 2025, with capacity additions expected to reach 19GW and sector-wide expenditure projected to hit $80 billion, according to research from Rystad Energy.This recovery follows a slowdown at the end of last year…

Guyana Says Venezuelan Vessel Entered Contested Waters

Mar 02, 2025

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali said on Saturday that a Venezuelan coast guard patrol entered Guyanese waters earlier in the day, approaching an output vessel in an offshore oil block managed by Exxon Mobil.The South American neighbors are involved…

Petrobras Ups Ship Orders to 48 by 2026

Mar 02, 2025

Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras will commission four more support vessels by 2026, Chief Executive Magda Chambriard told Reuters, increasing the number of new ships aimed at supporting its operations to 48 by 2026.The reinforcement of…

Beacon Offshore’s Shenandoah FPS Reaches US Ahead of Deepwater Installation

Feb 28, 2025

The Shenandoah floating production system (FPS) has been transported to the Gulf of America ahead of wet tow and offshore installation at the Shenandoah deepwater field at Walker Ridge project site, developed by Texas-based exploration and production company Beacon Offshore Energy…

Cadeler’s Newbuild Offshore Wind Vessel Secures Work in US

Feb 28, 2025

Danish offshore wind installation firm Cadeler has signed a firm contract for the deployment of its newbuild offshore wind vessel, the Wind Pace, at an offshore wind farm located in the United States.This will be the first time Cadeler’s second P-Class newbuild vessel…

A New Thriller About an Amazing Rescue

Feb 27, 2025

In the early days of dynamic positioning, the 1960s and 70s, commercial deepsea divers soon learned how good their support vessel’s DP footprint was. Their lives depended on it. If a vessel slowly, or worse still, rapidly, moved off position…

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