Offshore news

TechnipFMC will continue to provide a wide range of engineering, studies and technical services to Neptune Energy. This includes installation work and operational support for Neptune’s development projects and producing fields.

The company has been awarded a contract to deploy its high-volume mud cooler technology for a project owned by Germany’s largest private developer of geothermal systems.

The permits, for wells off the coast of Norway, have been granted based upon the petroleum resource act paragraph 13.

Through the agreement, Longboat farmed-in to two near-term, gas weighted exploration prospects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf targeting combined gross unrisked mean prospective resources of 223 mmboe (45 mmboe net to Longboat).

ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration & Production Guyana Ltd is set to install a subsea water alternating gas (WAG) jumper made from Strohm’s Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP) on the Liza Phase 2 project in Guyana.

Equinor will retain 49% interest in the project, and Shell will become the new operator of the field. To reflect this change, Equinor and Shell have agreed to rename the North Platte development to the Sparta development.

Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) has announced it has completed the safe and successful removal of the Brae Alpha West drilling rig and the Brae Bravo upper main jacket in the Northern North Sea.

The new F-class vessel is expected to be delivered in 4Q25. Cadeler is currently in discussion for an XL monopile foundation installation contract in the North Sea. Installation is expected to commence in 2Q26.

This project will see the reprocessing of 3500 square km of data in the Greater Catcher Area covering quads 21, 28, and 29 of the North Sea on the margins of the UK Central Graben.

The company has carried out operations across six continents, from Alaska to Australia, across The Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.