UK-headquartered rig owner Aquadrill and a subsidiary of rig manager Vantage have secured a deal with an undisclosed operator in East Africa for the provision of the drillship . The 2008-built managed pressure drilling (MPD)-equipped unit has been booked for a one-well campaign, starting in...
https://splash247.com/aquadrills-drillship-scores-east-africa-contract/
EDF Renewables has joined forces with Belgian marine contractor Jan De Nul and electricity utility Luminus to bid for a commercial-scale offshore wind tender for the first phase of the Princess Elisabeth Zone in Belgium. The Princess Elisabeth Zone is an area identified by the federal government to...
Norway’s Boa has been awarded a contract by TM Edison, a joint venture between Jan De Nul and DEME, to support the construction of the world’s first artificial energy island. Under the contract, BOA will provide the semi-submersible Boabarge 33 for the launching of 23 concrete caissons for Princess...
https://splash247.com/boa-secures-work-on-worlds-first-energy-island-off-belgium/
Houston-headquartered OSV owner Tidewater has struck a deal with Norway’s Solstad Offshore to purchase its entire fleet of platform supply vessels for $577m. The deal will see the New York-listed firm, with a fleet of 228 vessels, add 37 PSVs and become the largest owner and operator in this...
https://splash247.com/tidewater-swoops-on-solstads-psv-fleet-in-577m-deal/
Petrobras and Equinor have signed a letter of intent, expanding on the cooperation between the companies, that will see them jointly assess the technical, economic and environmental feasibility of seven offshore wind power generation projects off the Brazilian coast. These projects would have the...
Oslo-listed investment firm Hunter Group has joined forces with class society DNV to develop a low-pressure midstream shipping solution for carbon capture and storage. The parties have agreed to work together on a 40,000 to 70,000 cu m liquified CO2 carrier with 20,000 to 30,000 cu m feeder vessels...
The Ukrainian government is attempting to put pressure on some famous names in Greek shipping who continue to trade with Russia. George Economou’s TMS Tankers, George Prokopiou’s Dynacom Tankers along with Andreas Martinos’s Minerva Marine, Nikolas Maritnos’s Thenamaris, and Diamantis Diamantidis’s...
https://splash247.com/ukraine-pressures-greek-owners-to-stop-moving-russian-oil/
Nearly 50 offshore workers on BP North Sea assets are set to down tools in a dispute over pay and overtime rates. Sparrows members of the Unite union working on BP’s Andrew, Clair, Clair Ridge, ETAP, Glen Lyon FPSO and Mungo installations overwhelmingly supported strikes that will result in a...
https://splash247.com/north-sea-sparrows-workers-to-strike-on-bp-assets/
EIG Global Energy Partners, an institutional investor in the global energy and infrastructure sectors, headquartered in Washington, D.C., last week announced the completion of its acquisition of a 25% interest in Repsol Upstream, a newly formed, gas-weighted exploration and production company...
https://splash247.com/breakwater-energy-acquires-25-of-repsols-global-upstream-business/
Dutch outfit Vroon has secured work for two vessels in the UK. Doris Group’s ODE Asset Management has commenced a 9-month charter with options for the VOS Glamour multi-role vessel managed by Vroon Offshore Services. The charter which recently kicked off is being supported by ODE AM’s shipbroker...