Norwegian services provider Moreld Ross Offshore has inked a deal with compatriot Solstad Offshore for the hire of the offshore subsea construction vessel . The vessel will be used for a range of subsea work in the Norwegian and British sectors for various clients, Ross Offshore said. The...
The world’s first offshore hydrogen production unit has been inaugurated in the port of Saint-Nazaire, France, ahead of its official trials off the Atlantic coast. The unit, called Sealhyfe, will, following a phase of dockside tests, connect to BW Ideol’s landmark floating offshore wind turbine...
https://splash247.com/floating-wind-powered-offshore-hydrogen-production-unit-set-for-french-debut/
Danish rig owner Maersk Drilling has secured a $34m contract from Ineos for the provisioning of the 2009-built jackup rig to drill two development wells at the Solsort field as well as performing well intervention work scopes on two wells within the Siri cluster in the Danish North Sea. Following...
https://splash247.com/maersk-drilling-scores-34m-jackup-deal-with-ineos/
TechnipFMC has won a significant contract worth up to $250m from Shell for the Jackdaw gas field development in the UK North Sea. Under the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract, the New York-listed subsea giant will carry out pipelay for a 30 km tieback from the...
https://splash247.com/technipfmc-wins-shell-uk-subsea-contract/
Houston-based Talos Energy has acquired EnVen Energy Corporation, a private operator in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico, for $1.1bn. The transaction will increase Talos’ production by 40% and gross acreage by 35%. It will also double Talos’ operated deepwater facility footprint, adding key...
https://splash247.com/talos-energy-acquires-enven-energy-adding-us-gulf-of-mexico-assets/
Offshore accommodation vessel owners Prosafe and Floatel International have secured charter extensions for their semisubmersible units operating in the UK and Norwegian sectors, respectively. In the UK North Sea, BP has exercised an option to charter the 2015-built flotel Safe Zephyrus through...
https://splash247.com/prosafe-and-floatel-international-bag-accommodation-vessel-extensions/
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy this week signed an executive order to increase the state’s offshore wind goal by nearly 50%, from 7,500 MW to 11,000 MW, by 2040. The order also directs the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to study the feasibility of increasing the target further. Murphy...
https://splash247.com/new-jersey-increases-offshore-wind-goal-to-11000-mw-by-2040/
By Stephane Mahe SAINT-NAZAIRE, France, Sept 22 (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said he will cut red tape to halve the time it takes in France to get renewable projects off the…
By Barry Parker (gCaptain) – Just about a year ago, the process of selling off assets from tug and barge owner Bouchard, which had declared bankruptcy one year before that,…
https://gcaptain.com/one-year-after-bouchard-asset-sale-moving-towards-clean-and-green/
Trading sources report discussions over a full or partial acquisition of Torbjorn Tornqvist’s $4bn trading group