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DNO Norge Gets Clearance for North Sea Drilling Operation

Aug 14, 2024

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted DNO Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea, to be conducted using Noble Corporation's Noble Invincible ultra-harsh environment jack-up rig.The drilling permit is for a wellbore2/6-7 S in production license 1086…

Corio Teams Up with Brazilian Shipyard to Assess Its Offshore Wind Hub Potential

Aug 14, 2024

Offshore wind developer Corio Generation, a Macquarie Group company, and Brazilian shipyard and marine construction company Estaleiros do Brasil (EBR) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore how EBR’s facilities could support future offshore wind projects off Brazil’s south coast…

BOEM’s Environmental Analysis Sees No Significant Impacts of Wind Leases Off Oregon

Aug 14, 2024

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has concluded that leases for potential offshore wind energy development off the Oregon coast would have no significant impacts to people or environment.BOEM has made available its final Environmental…

Philippine Fishermen Fear Floating Solar Farm Could Sink Their Livelihoods

Aug 13, 2024

Fishing has been a lifeline for Alejandro Alcones for the past four decades, but he now fears his small boat may be replaced by a floating solar farm on the Philippines' largest lake.Alcones is part of a group of fishermen opposed to the government's plan to place solar panels atop Laguna de Bay…

Vineyard Wind Cleared to Resume Limited Offshore Turbine Installs

Aug 13, 2024

Vineyard Wind and GE Vernova on Tuesday said U.S. safety officials have allowed them to resume limited construction on an offshore wind farm off the Massachusetts coast where a turbine blade shattered last month.Vineyard Wind, owned by Avangrid AGR…

SPE Offshore Europe Gets New Delivery Team

Aug 13, 2024

A new team is heading up the organization of SPE Offshore Europe (OE) at RX Global, in partnership with SPE, in the biennial event to be held at P&J Live in U.K. in September 2025.David Ince has been appointed as SPE Offshore Europe Exhibition Director and Michael Enser as Marketing Manager…

Anglo-Eastern to Manage Windcat’s Hydrogen-Powered CSOV

Aug 13, 2024

Offshore personnel transfer company Windcat, part of CMB.TECH, has partnered with Anglo-Eastern for the technical and crewing management of the first out six ordered hydrogen-powered Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs).Windcat has ordered six Elevation Series CSOVs…

‘World’s Largest’ Floating Wind Platform on Its Way to Offshore Site in China

Aug 13, 2024

China’s Mingyang Smart Energy has started towing what’s said to be the world’s largest single-capacity floating wind platform, rated at 16.6MW, to the the Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm site in South China Sea.The floater, dubbed OceanX, features…

Brazil Environmental Workers Agree to Stop Strike Affecting Oil Permits

Aug 13, 2024

A union representing Brazil's federal environment workers said it had signed an agreement with the government to end a strike affecting oil and gas licenses in Latin America's largest economy, according to a press release on Monday.The union Ascema…

First LNG Cargo Sets Sail from New Fortress Energy’s Mexico FLNG (Video)

Aug 13, 2024

One of the world’s leading LNG project developers New Fortress Energy (NFE) has completed the first cargo load and sail operation from its floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit offshore Altamira in Mexico.The first cargo has been loaded…

Germany Picks Winners of 5.5GW Offshore Wind Tender

Aug 13, 2024

In the latest offshore wind auction, Germany has awarded three sites in the North Sea, totaling 5.5 GW, to RWE and Waterekke Energy, which is linked to the asset manager Luxcara.RWE has been awarded the N-9.1 and N-9.2 sites in the German North Sea…

Petronas Helps Suppliers Go Green

Aug 12, 2024

Petronas is encouraging Malaysia’s oil and gas services and equipment suppliers to embrace sustainability principles by providing training and tools to help them adopt new practices.Petronas will help with ESG knowledge and capacity building…

50th Monopile Installed Off Virginia Beach

Aug 12, 2024

Dominion Energy has installed the 50th monopile foundation its the 2.6GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project located 33 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach.The project is on schedule to hit the company's target of 70-100 monopiles set into…

Video: Injured Crewmembers Airlifted from Fire-hit Liftboat in the Gulf of Mexico

Aug 12, 2024

Two crewmembers were medecaved on Sunday after being injured in a fire aboard a U.S.-registered liftboat in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard said.At approximately 7:53 p.m. Coast Guard District Eight watchstanders received a notification…

Prysmian Awarded $96 Million in Trade Secrets Dispute Against Sterlite

Aug 12, 2024

Italian cable maker Prysmian on Monday received about $96 million in its trade secrets case against India's Sterile Technologies.Prysmian filed the lawsuit in 2021 claiming that a former executive Stephen Szymanski misused trade secrets and took them to his new employer Sterlite…

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