A fire at Chevron’s deepwater Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) oil platform off Angola left 17 injured, including four critically. The fire broke out around 3 am local time in the basement of the multi-story production platform. All personnel have been accounted for, according to Chevron. The...
https://splash247.com/fire-at-chevrons-oil-platform-off-angola-injures-17/
Offshore drilling unit of Malaysia’s Velesto Energy has won a contract for one of its jackup rigs from Phu Quoc Petroleum Operating Company (PQPOC) in Vietnam. The contract was awarded to the 2013-built Naga 4 jackup, which was hired to drill over 40 wells for the Vietnamese firm. The deal for the...
https://splash247.com/velesto-jackup-to-drill-over-40-wells-in-vietnam/
Perth-based OSV operator MMA Offshore, a subsidiary of Cyan Renewables, has won a multi-year platform supply vessel contract from Chevron in Australia. The contract was awarded to the 2015-built high-specification PSV MMA Plover. It will provide marine logistics support to Chevron’s Barrow Island...
https://splash247.com/mma-offshore-gets-psv-work-off-australia-with-chevron/
The Trump administration is allowing construction to resume on a $5 billion wind farm off Long Island after reaching a deal with New York Governor Kathy Hochul that could allow new natural gas pipelines to be built in the state.
The Trump administration has lifted the stop work order on the Empire Wind 1 project that was imposed by Secretary of Energy Doug Burgum on April 16.
The news was welcome by developer Equinor and by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul who had pledged to fight the shut down of the fully-permitted project “every step of the way.”
“Thousands of jobs. Hundreds of thousands of homes powered by clean energy. That’s what Empire Wind 1 was poised to deliver until a stop work order was issued on April 16 by the...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/offshore-wind/trump-lifts-empire-wind-stop-work-order/
Brazilian oil and gas major Petrobras has signed an engineering, production, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract with Subsea 7 for the Búzios 11 Project, worth R$8.4bn ($1.48bn) The contract establishes a minimum requirement of 40% local content, but the expectation is to reach a...
https://splash247.com/petrobras-pens-epci-deal-with-subsea-7-worth-nearly-1-5bn/
The Norwegian Ministry of Energy is calling for applications to its tender for three floating offshore wind project areas at Utsira Nord. Each project area may have an installed capacity of up to 500MW of floating offshore wind. Interested parties must submit applications by September 15. According...
https://splash247.com/norway-opens-bidding-for-1-5gw-of-floating-wind/
The Danish government has revealed it would launch a 3GW offshore wind tender this autumn. The country also decided to support developers with two-sided contracts for difference after last year’s tender attracted no bids. The three tenders cover two areas in the Danish North Sea and one in the...
https://splash247.com/denmark-sets-up-offshore-wind-tender-with-up-to-8-3bn-in-subsidies/
Former Sparebank boss Arne Austreid out as experienced offshore man takes over
Quartet expected to add $480m to Norwegian owner’s top line