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(OW) Hai Long Offshore Wind Project, a joint venture between Northland Power and Mitsui & Co., has signed a credit agreement to secure TWD 118 billion (approximately USD 3.7 billion) long-term over 20-year non-recourse financing (equivalent of CAD 5 billion) for the 1 GW offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The non-recourse project financing will be... Continue Reading →
SBM Offshore and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) announced the signing of a partnership agreement that will offer a CO2 capture solution for platform ships (FPSOs). The agreement is the result of a successful engineering and design study between the companies, demonstrating the technical feasibility and commercial readiness of offshore CO2 capture technology. According to SBM,... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling company Noble Corp. said Tuesday it had won a contract with TotalEnergies, to redeploy the harsh-environment jackup rig Noble Regina Allen for the drilling of three horizontal wells at the Fénix project in southern Argentina. TotalEnergies subsidiary, Total Austral, awarded the contract to Noble Drilling. The contract is expected to start in the... Continue Reading →
Norway-based seismic specialists TGS and PGS ASA said Monday they had agreed on the principal terms of a merger of TGS and PGS "to create a strong full-service energy data company." The transaction is expected to be completed as a statutory merger pursuant to Norwegian corporate law, with merger consideration to PGS shareholders in the form... Continue Reading →
Norway’s DOF Group has won three new service contracts with Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras that are worth more than $260 million. The contracts include survey and inspection work and will see at least three vessels used to perform flexible pipeline, risers and subsea equipment inspection in Campos Basin, Santos Basin, and Espírito Santos... Continue Reading →
Wave Energy Scotland (WES), a subsidiary of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), is running tests at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility, to determine the potential for floating platforms that can be used by both offshore wind and wave energy devices. The move has been prompted by a report by Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) exploring the synergies... Continue Reading →
SBM Offshore and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) are pleased to announce the signing of a Partnership Agreement that will offer a CO2 capture solution for Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSO) as they are producing oil and gas from offshore reservoirs. The agreement follows a successful engineering and design study between the companies... Continue Reading →
(PN) The company announced the signing of an agreement to develop basic engineering projects for new Petrobras FPSOs. The contract will last 31 months, with services estimated at R$57 million. “We are very excited about this new major contract with Petrobrás, which is a global reference client in the oil and gas market, in which... Continue Reading →
(OE) Offshore drilling company Transocean said Thursday it had secured a three-year contract for the newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Aquila with "a national oil company" for work offshore Brazil. The contract is expected to start in the third quarter of 2024 and represents about $486 million in firm backlog, excluding a mobilization fee of approximately 90 times... Continue Reading →
(WO)Sustainable materials specialist, EMR, rare earth magnetic materials recycling company, HyProMag, Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, Magnomatics, and the University of Birmingham have formed a partnership which will focus on extracting the rare earth magnets from end-of-life wind turbines and enabling their use in new wind turbines, both onshore and offshore. Named Re-Rewind, the partnership,... Continue Reading →
