OMV Petrom has appointed global energy and marine consultancy ABL to provide Marine Warranty Survey (MWS) services for the construction of Romania’s Neptun Deep Gas Field Project in the Black Sea.

Audacia has successfully installed her largest ever PLET in S-mode, concluding several years of in-house engineering, fabrication and testing. The pipeline end termination structure is so heavy, production crew had to install separately to the connector head. It’s also so tall and wide, it only just fit through the tensioners and over the stinger.

Chartwell Marine, a trusted pioneer of next-generation vessel design, has announced that a new Chartwell Brevity Class Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) entered build in March at the Diverse Marine shipyard in Cowes, UK – becoming the latest in Chartwell’s growing pipeline of new vessel builds to supply the global offshore wind market.

Balmoral Comtec, a Balmoral Group company and a major provider of buoyancy, protection and insulation services to the global offshore energy market, has secured a multi-million-pound contract from TechnipFMC to supply more than 600 buoyancy modules for Equinor’s Rosebank project. This contract award is already supporting the recruitment of over 50 new employees at its Aberdeen base.

CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA), a marine environmental consulting and survey company, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Tombo Environmental, LLC (Tombo), a consulting firm specializing in complex environmental sampling techniques and research and development of sampling equipment. As part of the agreement, Ian Stupakoff, the Founder and Principal of Tombo, joins CSA’s growing Science Department team as a Senior Scientist and Director of Sediment Profile Imaging (SPI) Sciences, based out of Olympia, Washington State.

Seatrium Limited (Seatrium), a leading engineering solutions provider to the global offshore and marine industry, and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore research opportunities in new energies and artificial intelligence (AI) to develop innovative products and engineering solutions for the Offshore and Marine (O&M) sector.

Seatools announces the successful delivery and operation of its pre-piling template equipment to CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) for the Hai Long Offshore Wind Farm project. This milestone reinforces Seatools' standing as the undisputed market leader in advanced subsea metrology and control solutions, drawing on its vast experience from over twelve similar pre-piling template projects.

DEME has been awarded two contracts from cable solutions provider Prysmian for the engineering and installation works for the IJmuiden Ver Alpha and Nederwiek 1 offshore grid systems in the Netherlands. This is the most extensive cabling award in DEME’s history and marks the company's first project involving Prysmian’s 525 kV HVDC cable technology, featuring increased transmission capacity.

Dominion Energy announces that Charybdis, the United States' first Jones Act-compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel, was successfully launched from land to water, marking a major milestone in the vessel's construction. To achieve this milestone, welding of the ship's hull and commissioning of the vessel's four legs and related jacking system were successfully completed.

Global lightning detection leader Vaisala Xweather has analyzed every lightning strike on or around wind farms in the continental United States in 2023. The Xweather report reveals 77,494 lightning strikes at or near more than 1,500 wind farms. The findings show an operation in Hansford County, Texas, and another straddling Blaine and Custer Counties, Oklahoma, seeing the most lightning activity, with more than 1,000 strokes each during the year.

In June 2022, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate published data collected up to 2022. The Directorate is now releasing deep sea data gathered from 2022 to 2024.

Petrofac, a leading provider of services to the global energy industry, has been awarded a contract extension by bp, continuing support across its North Sea portfolio.

The Johan Castberg ship will soon be heading north. With the ship in place, the plan is to have three producing fields in the Barents Sea by the end of the year.

Leading vessel traffic management provider Vissim announces that Indonesian national energy company Pertamina has chosen to install a new marine surveillance system at its PAPA ONWJ oil platform in Indonesia.

Odfjell has worked actively to reduce emissions for more than a decade. This work has led to documented results, positioning us as a sustainability leader in the international shipping industry. Odfjell is now taking another proactive step toward reaching their ambitious climate targets by releasing a customized Transition Finance Framework aimed to support the funding of their transition.