Offshore

Solstad Offshore has been awarded long-term contracts in the UK North Sea for two of its PSVs by Fairfield Betula Ltd.

A new insurance package will cover liabilities and losses incurred during towage, tug, offshore oil and gas and renewables operations.

Aker BP has agreed to buy Equinor’s 77.8 percent stake in Norway’s King Lear gas and condensate discovery for $250 million in cash, the two companies said on Monday.

UK-based marine services company Stewart Marine has contracted Neptune Marine to build a new EuroCarrier 2611, which is to be named ‘Viking Energy’.

Equinor's Oseberg Vestflanken 2 field in the North Sea came on stream on October 14, and remotely operated from the Oseberg field center, the new Oseberg H platform is the first unmanned platform on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. 

World’s first LNG cruise ship, AIDAnova, has been successfully transferred to Eemshaven, Netherlands.

Stratas Advisors sees North America as the main pivot point behind the future of the LNG industry through 2030.

Pao Novatek,said on Oct. 11 that its subsidiary OOO Arctic LNG 3 has confirmed a new natural gas and gas condensate field in the North-Obskiy license area in shallow-water Ob Bay offshore northern Russia.

American oil major Chevron has decided to leave the Norwegian continental shelf in favor of new prospects in other regions.

Tullow Ghana has awarded Subsea 7 an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract in the Jubilee field offshore Ghana.

The Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Kjell-Børge Freiberg, has officially opened the power-from-shore solution which will provide the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea with electricity for more than 50 years. 

Ensco and Rowan Companies have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction.