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Denmark-headquartered Maersk Supply Service has revealed that one of its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels, which is believed to be the world’s first hybrid-electric anchor handler, has completed sea trials offshore Norway, following upgrades. Maersk Supply Service has steadily been reducing its emissions since 2018 through a combination of initiatives, such as energy-efficient operations... Continue Reading →
Oil and gas giant Petrobras has awarded CGG with a four-year contract extension for its dedicated reservoir services center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Under the contract, CGG will continue providing its reservoir characterization workflows, such as geostatistical, 4D and azimuthal inversion, while also bringing new technologies to Brazil to further enhance reservoir understanding. These... Continue Reading →
(OE) Singapore-based shipbuilder Sembcorp Marine has delivered the world's first 8th generation drillship, the Deepwater Atlas, to its owner Transocean. The Deepwater Atlas is the first of two ultra-deepwater drillships based on the Sembcorp Marine's Jurong Espadon 3T design. The completed drillship features three-million pound hook-load hoisting capacity and, according to the rigbuilder, sets a... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7 has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Dutch hydrogen technology developer, OneSea Energy, to collaborate in the field of floating offshore green hydrogen production. The Memorandum of Understanding provides that OneSea and Subsea 7 will move forward together in exploring and developing field-specific solutions for offshore hydrogen production. Both companies will... Continue Reading →
Westwood Global Energy Group (Westwood) has revealed that of the 121 GW worth of floating offshore wind projects that the company is currently tracking using its WIndLogix intelligence software, close to 15 GW of floating wind capacity is expected to come online by 2030. Westwood says that 15 GW of capacity will account for four... Continue Reading →
German energy company RWE and steel producer ArcelorMittal have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop, build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities that will supply the renewable energy and green hydrogen required to produce low-emissions steel in Germany. The partnership centres on driving forward the production of carbon-neutral steel,... Continue Reading →
PGS has won a “significant” acquisition contract comprising several 4D surveys by an international oil company offshore West Africa. The acquisition is scheduled to start in early November and is expected to be complete in early May 2023. “We are very pleased with this contract award, which secures work for Ramform Vanguard until next summer season. Combining the Ramform acquisition platform and our GeoStreamer technology will... Continue Reading →
Havfram has secured a contract by MODEC Offshore Production Systems (Singapore) for the pre-installation of the subsea mooring system for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel destined for Senegal. MODEC will supply the facility to Woodside as part of the Sangomar Field Development Phase 1 project, Senegal’s first offshore oil development. Under the... Continue Reading →
Danish offshore drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has revealed that one of its drillships has been named floater rig of the year by Shell, a UK-headquartered energy giant, thanks to a drilling campaign in Brunei. In a statement on Friday, Maersk Drilling announced that Shell has named Maersk Viking its 2021 Global Rig of the Year in the Floater... Continue Reading →
TechnipFMC has won a contract with TotalEnergies EP Angola to supply subsea production systems for the CLOV Phase 3 development in Block 17 off the coast of Angola. The delivery will include Subsea 2.0 trees and associated controls, umbilical termination assemblies, jumpers and services. The contract is the first under the new framework agreement that... Continue Reading →
