oil and gas

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The UK Crown Estate has granted a seabed lease for the offshore phase of a carbon capture and storage project in Liverpool Bay.

5th August 2026

Seabed lease unlocks offshore phase of Liverpool Bay CCS project

5th August 2026

OPINION

OPINION

Decommissioning could be the UK’s next infrastructure crunch – logistics firms hold the key to success, says Nigel Kent, Head of Group Strategic Projects (Project Cargo) within the Peel Ports Group.

10th July 2026

Decommissioning: Bottleneck or opportunity?

10th July 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Oil giant Equinor has abandoned another offshore wind project, this time in Japan, where it has closed its office.

1st July 2026

Oil giants blown off course with offshore wind

1st July 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

In yet another blow to the beleaguered US offshore wind industry, the Trump administration said last week it would pay developer Invenergy $765 million to walk away from four US wind leases,…

24th June 2026

US offshore wind left adrift as Trump buys back leases

24th June 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

TotalEnergies has accepted $1 billion to abandon offshore wind leases in the US and re-focus on oil and gas, a US government announcement has confirmed.

24th March 2026

US pays TotalEnergies $1 billion to dump offshore wind

24th March 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

An offshore gas rig is being hailed by its owners as the first in the North Sea to be powered by offshore wind power.

16th December 2025

Wind farm connected to power North Sea gas rig

16th December 2025

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

As global tensions spread to threatening Europe’s critical underwater infrastructure, particularly in the Baltic Sea region, governments are addressing the challenges of protecting vital subsea links requiring potentially military-level responses but involving…

15th December 2025

Subsea sabotage – the hidden front of warfare

15th December 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Drillship contractor Valaris has expanded into offshore wind, providing accommodation support for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm with one of its jack-up rigs.

29th October 2025

Offshore wind turns to oil jack-ups as energy worlds converge

29th October 2025

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Dutch offshore data firm Fugro has blamed market conditions, particularly in oil and gas, for cutting its financial outlook for this year.

22nd September 2025

Fugro cuts profit outlook because of ‘market conditions’

22nd September 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

The world’s largest offshore structures will be able to board Allseas’ new vessel when it’s delivered – expanding heavy-lift and towing capacity for offshore industry.

17th September 2025

Allseas launches ‘Grand Tour’ for offshore giants

17th September 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

The Service Operation Vessel (SOV) market is going through a period of rapid expansion driven by two main factors: a growing demand for wind-specific offshore support and more commercial opportunities in the…

21st August 2025

OPINION: Can the growing SOV fleet meet demand?

21st August 2025

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Oil giant BP has finalised a 50-50 joint venture in offshore wind, despite announcing cutbacks from renewables just 6 months ago.

6th August 2025

Oil giant BP enters offshore wind JV despite ‘reset’

6th August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Shipbuilder Ulstein will convert an existing Commissioning Service Operation Vessel into a Walk-to-Work vessel for unmanned production platform on the Norwegian continental shelf, it says.

5th August 2025

Ulstein converts wind vessel for oil and gas

5th August 2025

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Italian engineering giant Saipem and Luxembourg-domiciled offshore engineers and construction firm Subsea7 have officially merged to create ‘a global leader in energy services’.

28th July 2025

€Multi-billion offshore firms complete merger

28th July 2025

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Marine geosciences and offshore construction firm Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has bought three quarters of the Italian subsea intervention company Rana Subsea, it has said.

22nd July 2025

NextGeo expands with 75% stake in subsea firm

22nd July 2025

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Norwegian maritime technology company Ulmatec has agreed a deal to supply four Launch and Recovery Systems (LARS) for two vessels in build at Vard by Island Offshore.

28th January 2025

Ultra-deep LARS systems contracted for Ulmatec

28th January 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A joint venture will install a second floating wind farm to provide the power to electrify oil and gas platforms in the Scottish North Sea.

29th July 2024

Floating wind farms to power oil and gas

29th July 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

The first of two methanol dual-fuel service operation vessels (SOVs) ordered ESVAGT has been launched at the Turkish shipyard of Cemre.

10th June 2024

First methanol-fuelled SOV launches

10th June 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7 have set up the joint venture ‘Salamander’ to submit an application for a floating wind farm off the coast of northeast Scotland.

20th May 2024

Heavyweights set up JV for floating wind

20th May 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A Norwegian consortium is working on a project to power a Barents Sea oil platform with electricity generated by floating offshore wind.

19th March 2024

Floating wind project will power oil and gas

19th March 2024