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The availability of emission-lowering upgrades for offshore rigs has been on the rise, but adoption of these new technologies is slow outside of Norway and the US Gulf of Mexico due to limited regulatory and financial incentives, energy intelligence group Westwood has found. According to Westwood the biggest users of rigs fitted with emission reduction... Continue Reading →
Norway's Kongsberg Maritime has secured a NOK 300 million ($30,2 million) contract with Pelagic Wind Services to supply advanced vessel design and equipment for two new CSOVs to be built at Cochin Shipyard in India. The CSOVs will be built to Kongsberg Maritime’s UT 5519 HL design, which, according to Kongsberg, has been upgraded to... Continue Reading →
Italian energy industry services firm Saipem said Wednesday it had secured new offshore drilling contracts, three in the Middle East and two in West Africa, worth around $800 million in total. In the Middle East, two new contracts have been awarded for two high-specification jack-up drilling units, the Perro Negro 12 and Perro Negro 13,... Continue Reading →
(OE) Dutch engineering firm Huisman has won a contract by TOA Corporation and Obayashi in Japan for the delivery of an offshore wind monopile gripper. "The gripper allows TOA and Obayashi to upend and install monopiles without using a separate upending bucket, improving safety and efficiency ofoperations on board," Huisman said. According to Huisman, its monopile gripper will be the first of its... Continue Reading →
UK-headquartered AIS has acquired CRP Subsea as part of its growth strategy and with the aim of expanding its range of subsea offerings. Based in Skelmersdale, England, CRP Subsea, formerly Trelleborg Offshore UK, delivers polymer and syntactic foam-based buoyancy and protection products for the offshore renewables and oil & gas industries. “Considerable growth is expected... Continue Reading →
(OE) The results of fortunes and failures are often described as a “perfect storm”. The COVID pandemic, domestic inflation, labor issues and current geopolitical events have brought that description to a peak. A promise of a “new normal” emerged post pandemic, with a vision of alternative energy, alternative fuels and alternative supply chain logistics to... Continue Reading →
Following a temporary interruption of production, Brazil’s oil and gas player Enauta has restarted production from a well located on a field offshore Brazil. Earlier this month, Enauta announced a temporary interruption of production at a well on the Atlanta field, explaining that the initial assessment indicates that “this is an operational problem on the surface.” Due to... Continue Reading →
Oil major Shell has partnered with Kongsberg Ferrotech in a project that is developing tools to repair subsea assets using 3D printing technology. "Since 2021, Kongsberg Ferrotech has worked in a joint industry project with the partners Equinor, Gassco and SINTEF to develop and test advanced 3D printing technologies for in situ, metal to metal,... Continue Reading →
Dutch FPSO systems provider SBM Offshore said Thursday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with ExxonMobil for the supply of another FPSO in Guyana. "The company recently placed an order for a seventh Fast4Ward MPF hull. The construction of this hull is expected to start in the first quarter of 2023. An MoU was... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil company ConocoPhillips and China's CNOOC have recently announced the start of the Penglai offshore wind farm pilot project, aimed at harnessing wind power to supply power to the Penglai oil field. This is China’s largest offshore oil and gas production base under production sharing contract, located in Bohai Bay, Northeast China. Bill Arnold,... Continue Reading →
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