Offshore
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September 02, 2025
“TotalEnergies is honored to be the first international company to be awarded exploration licenses in a bid round in Nigeria in more than a decade,” commented Kevin McLachlan, Senior Vice-President Exploration at TotalEnergies.
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September 02, 2025
TechnipFMC has been awarded two subsea contracts by Petrobras for flexible pipe solutions. The first award involves the design, engineering, and manufacturing of flexible gas injection risers in the Santos basin, while the second award involves flexible risers and flowlines for deployment in the Campos basin.
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September 01, 2025
TotalEnergies has been awarded the Nzombo exploration permit in the Republic of the Congo. The 1,000 square km Nzombo permit is located 100 km off the coast of Pointe-Noire, close to the Moho production facilities.
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September 01, 2025
Equinor has selected BW Offshore as preferred bidder for the FPSO unit for the Bay du Nord project offshore Canada. Bay du Nord, Canada's first deepwater project, is operated by Equinor and bp, and holds an estimated 400 million bbls of recoverable light crude in its initial phase.
Article
August 2025
COS Safety Shares are advancing offshore safety through transparency.
News
August 28, 2025
Two SLB OneSubsea™ subsea compressor stations recently came online at Ormen Lange, the second largest gas field in Norway. The subsea compressor stations will help Shell unlock 30–50 billion cubic meters of additional gas reserves for export to Europe.
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August 28, 2025
Oceaneering has won contracts to provide work class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) services, specialized tooling packages, and survey services onboard multiple anchor handling and ROV support vessels working on Petrobras projects offshore Brazil.
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August 2025
The development of a fully electric subsea blowout preventer significantly improves BOP reliability and performance while reducing weight, wellhead fatigue, emergency disconnect times and OPEX. The full-scale testing of electric shear ram actuators on an 18¾-in BOP at HMH’s electrification lab validates the achievement of such benefits.
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August 2025
Offshore developments often face tight constraints during design stages, due to underestimating topsides’ sizes and weights early in the project. The keys to success are to harness what we know and what we can find out and to maintain open lines of communication during the design process.
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August 27, 2025
Verlume has entered into a strategic collaboration with Kraken Robotics, marking an industry-first crossover: the introduction of military-grade battery technology into the commercial offshore energy sector for the first time.
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August 27, 2025
Subsea7 has landed a major contract with the Turkish Petroleum Offshore Technology Center (TP-OTC) for the development of phase 3 of the Sakarya field development in the Black Sea, offshore Türkiye.
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August 27, 2025
Xodus founder Steve Swindell is stepping down from his role as CEO after 20 years with the global energy consultancy, with Stuart Holley of Subsea7 set to take over as Xodus CEO starting October 1.
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August 27, 2025
When completed, FLNG Hilli Episeyo will be redeployed in the Gulf of San Matias in the Rio Negro province offshore Argentina, liquifying gas from the Vaca Muerta shale formation onshore in Neuquen province for 20 years.
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August 27, 2025
EnerMech has secured a two-year contract extension with Dubai Petroleum to continue providing the Middle East operator with crane maintenance services across its offshore assets.
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August 26, 2025
International industrial services provider Bilfinger has secured a contract to provide inspection services using Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) across all of bp’s North Sea assets.
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August 25, 2025
Ace Well Technology, in collaboration with Expro and Archer, has successfully completed the first well deployment of the Ace Control Line Clamp (ACLC) using Expro’s Remote Clamp Installation System (RCIS) on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
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August 25, 2025
OKEA ASA has announced oil discoveries made in the Cook and Statfjord formations of Norway's Brage Field. The discoveries are considered commercial with preliminary estimates of gross recoverable resources in the range of 16 to 33 million MMboe.
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August 25, 2025
TotalEnergies and its partners, Equinor and Shell, announce that the first CO2 volumes were successfully transported to the Northern Lights facilities in Øygarden. They were then injected 2,600 m below the seabed into the storage facilities, offshore Norway.
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August 25, 2025
SLB announced today that its OneSubsea™ joint venture has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Equinor for a 12-well, all-electric Subsea Production System (SPS) in the Fram Sør field, offshore Norway.
Article
August 2025
As global offshore exploration surges in 2025, new concepts for floating assets and emerging carbon capture technologies are advancing the energy transition, with safety and sustainability at the forefront of innovation.
Article
August 2025
Despite the offshore support vessel (OSV) market historically facing supply and demand issues, amidst the need for greater sustainability and growth in renewables, it has entered a rare phase of calm. It’s critical to take advantage of this industry cycle phase to pursue efficiencies in OSV operations.
