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INEOS Set for May Launch of First European Built CO2 Carrier

May 01, 2025

The first European built CO2 carrier, dedicated for work at the Greensand carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, will be christened and launched on May 14, 2025.All ship sections of the vessel have now been successfully constructed and assembled…

AI-Powered Bird Monitoring at Offshore Wind Farms Shows Promise

Apr 25, 2025

The trial of AI-powered vision systems to monitor bird movement at offshore wind farm, conducted by Spoor AI, Vattenfall, and the British Trust of Ornithology, has proved promising.The trial was conducted at Vattenfall’s Aberdeen Bay Offshore Wind Farm…

EnQuest Bags Two Production Sharing Contracts off Indonesia

Apr 23, 2025

U.K.-based oil firm EnQuest, and its joint venture partners, have been confirmed as the winning bidders for two Production Sharing Contract (PSC) blocks in Indonesia’s Papua Barat, including Gaea and Gaea II.The blocks present a multi-Tscf unrisked…

Equinor’s Hammerfest LNG Plant on Maintenance Pause until July

Apr 22, 2025

Equinor's Hammerfest LNG terminal, Europe's largest liquefied natural gas export facility, has gone offline for annual maintenance as planned, transparency data showed on Tuesday.The maintenance outage at the Hammerfest plant, also known as Melkoeya LNG…

Greensand CCS Scheme in North Sea Lines Up First CO2 Storage Customer

Apr 17, 2025

Öresundskraft Kraft & Värme and INEOS, on behalf of Project Greensand, have signed an agreement to investigate the opportunity to store up to 210,000 tonnes of CO2 annually from Sweden in Denmark.The captured carbon dioxide is planned for safe…

EnerMech Gets Anasuria FPSO Services Job in North Sea

Apr 14, 2025

Energy industry services firm EnerMech has been awarded a three-year cranes and lifting services contract for the Anasuria floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, east of Aberdeen in the central North Sea.Secured following a competitive tendering process…

Finnish Port Set for Offshore Wind Overhaul

Apr 11, 2025

Euroports Group and Noatun project companies, jointly held by OX2 and Ålandsbanken Offshore Wind I, have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to establish Koverhar Harbour in Hanko as a key logistics hub for the construction of the offshore wind farm project Noatun North…

RWE Drops Bubble Curtain to Silence Construction Noise at Sofia Offshore Wind Farm

Apr 11, 2025

RWE has deployed a bubble curtain technology in the U.K. for the first time to protect marine life from the construction noise at its Sofia offshore wind farm.RWE has been working with Hydrotechnik Offshore to introduce an innovative underwater noise-abatement technology…

UK First: CO2 Injection Test for Poseidon CCS Wraps Up at Perenco’s North Sea Field

Apr 09, 2025

UK’s first CO2 injection test for the Poseidon carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, which will store CO2 at Perenco-operated Leman gas field in Southern North Sea, has been completed.The test involved the injection of CO2 into a depleted natural gas reservoir in the UK’s Southern North Sea…

Kraken Robotics Launches SAS Service for Offshore Energy Market

Apr 08, 2025

Canadian marine technology company Kraken Robotics is launching a synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) service for the global offshore energy market.Kraken’s commercial services team will have dedicated KATFISH towed SAS systems available for rental starting July 2025…

Kongsberg Maritime Launches Advanced Simulator for Maritime Training

Mar 27, 2025

Kongsberg Maritime has launched the K-Sim Offshore DP3 Anchor Handling Simulator, designed for training for complex offshore operations.With an investment of over $322,000, the innovative training solution is designed to elevate competency standards…

Twelve Scottish Firms Secure Place in Offshore Renewables Supply Chain Program

Mar 18, 2025

Twelve businesses in the North East of Scotland targeting success in the offshore renewable energy market have been selected for the the U.K.’s Fit For Offshore Renewables (F4OR) supply chain support program.The program is open to companies looking to break into the offshore renewable energy sector…

Harbour Energy Gets Drilling Permit for CCS Exploration off Norway

Mar 18, 2025

Harbour Energy has secured a permit to drill a well in the Norwegian Sea, which is part of carbon storage exploration license at Havstjerne development.The permit, awarded by Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD), is for wellbore 9/6-1 in production license EXL006…

Kraken Robotics Acquires 3D at Depth

Mar 13, 2025

Kraken Robotics, through a subsidiary, signed a definitive agreement and plan of merger to acquire 100% of the shares of 3D at Depth, Inc., a U.S.-based subsea technology and services company specializing in high resolution LiDAR imaging and measurements…

BP Finds Gas in Final Well of West Nile Delta Drilling Campaign off Egypt

Mar 06, 2025

BP has completed drilling operations at the El Fayoum-5 gas discovery well in the North Alexandria Offshore Concession, marking the final well in its four-slot drilling campaign in the West Nile Delta.Drilled using the Valaris DS-12 drillship…

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