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EnQuest Sells 15% Stake in North Sea Field And FPSO

Dec 25, 2023

UK-based oil firm EnQuest has reached an agreement with Viaro Energy’s subsidiary RockRose to sell a 15% working interest in the Bressay field and the EnQuest Producer floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), both located in the UK North Sea…

Borgland Dolphin Drilling Rig Finds Work Offshore UK

Dec 25, 2023

Offshore drilling contractor Dolphin Drilling has signed a letter of intent for a 500-day drilling campaign with an undisclosed operator in the UK.The 500-day drilling campaign will employ semi-submersible rig Borgland Dolphin.The drilling campaign…

Petrobras Starts New Drilling Campaign in Potiguar Basin

Dec 25, 2023

Brazilian state-run oil group Petrobras has started drilling the Pitu Oeste well, which marks the restart of the company's search for oil and gas in the Equatorial Margin.The drilling of the well, in the BM-POT-17 concession, located 53 kilometers off the coast of Rio Grande do Norte…

Ecowende Orders 52 Vestas Turbines for Offshore Wind Farm in Netherlands

Dec 22, 2023

The Dutch wind farm developer Ecowende, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has placed an order for 52 offshore wind turbines from Vestas, each rated at 15MW, for its Hollandse Kust (west) site VI.Once installed, Vestas will service the…

New Fortress Energy Takes Delivery of Energos Celsius FSRU

Dec 22, 2023

Seatrium has delivered a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Energos Celsius to New Fortress Energy (NFE), one of the world’s leading LNG project developers.Energos Celsius is owned by Energos Infrastructure, a global marine infrastructure platform backed by Apollo funds and NFE…

Ecowende Hires Van Oord to Build 760MW Offshore Wind Farm in Dutch North Sea

Dec 22, 2023

Ecowende, a joint venture of Shell and Eneco, has awarded a contract to Van Oord for the construction of the 760 MW offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (west) lot VI.As Ecowende's contractor, Van Oord will be responsible for transporting and installing the foundations…

Pioneering Spirit Kicks Off Pipelay Ops for BP’s LNG Project

Dec 22, 2023

Allseas’ construction vessel Pioneering Spirit has started pipelaying work on BP’s ultra-deepwater Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) natural gas project offshore Mauritania and Senegal. Allseas’ offshore construction support vessel Oceanic kicked…

Equinor Divests All Remaining Oil Assets in Azerbaijan

Dec 22, 2023

Equinor and SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic) have signed an agreement by which the Norwegian energy industry giant will divest all its remaining assets in Azerbaijan to SOCAR.The assets comprise a 7.27% non-operated interest…

PTTEP takes TotalEnergies' share in Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm for $690M

Dec 22, 2023

TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with Thailand’s national oil and gas company PTTEP for the sale of a 25.5% equity stake in the Seagreen offshore wind farm for $689 million.Following the farm down, TotalEnergies retains 25.5% of Seagreen offshore wind farm…

Enauta Buys Cidade de Santos FPSO

Dec 22, 2023

Brazilian oil and gas company Enauta has bought FPSO Cidade de Santos platform from MODEC, following the acquisition of the Uruguá and Tambaú fields in Santos Basin.The transaction for the FPSO, capable of processing 350 million cubic feet per day of gas…

Angola leaves OPEC

Dec 21, 2023

Angola is leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) because membership is not serving its interests, oil minister Diamantino Azevedo said on Thursday.Angola, which joined OPEC in 2007, produces about 1.1 million barrels of oil per day…

TotalEnergies Extends DeepSea Mira Contract for Work in West Africa

Dec 21, 2023

TotalEnergies has exercised the first option under the contract for DeepSea Mira semi-submersible drilling rig, extending its contract for 180 additional days for work in West Africa.The owner of the offshore drilling rig Northern Ocean said…

Dutch Developer Hooks $16M to Advance Offshore Solar Business

Dec 21, 2023

Dutch company SolarDuck has secured $16.4 million from existing and new investors for the development and deployment of its offshore solar technology.The funding has been provided by Katapult Ocean, Green Tower, Energy Transition Fund Rotterdam and Invest-NL…

European Wave Energy Project Gets $4.4M Funding Boost

Dec 21, 2023

European Union’s Horizon program has approved a $4.4 million grant for SHY project, which will develop a new power take-off (PTO) system with advanced control strategy, aimed at reducing the cost of wave energy.SHY project, short for Seawater…

Vestas and Vattenfall Cement Offshore Wind Partnership in UK

Dec 21, 2023

Danish company Vestas and Swedish utility Vattenfall have signed a 1.4 GW preferred supplier agreement for UK offshore wind project, with exclusivity agreements for two additional 2.8 GW projects in the country.The agreements for the three projects…

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