The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted DNO a drilling permit for a well located in the Norwegian Sea. The well 6507/7-16 S will be drilled from the Island Innovator drilling rig some three kilometres west of the Heidrun field and 250 kilometres north of Kristiansund. The drilling program for [...]

Offshore Wind Growth Partnership releases first money for projects that aim to improve the competitiveness of the sector.  The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has released £400,000 in funding for projects that aim to improve the competitiveness of the existing UK supply chain and encourage the development of new products [...]

Orsted completes installation of 174 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at 1.2GW project. Orsted has installed the last of 174 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines to feature at its 1200MW Hornsea 1 project off the Yorkshire coast in the UK. Deme Offshore vessel Sea Challenger and Fred Olsen jack up Bold Tern [...]

Norway’s Equinor has awarded Italy’s Saipem a subsea service contract which entails using a wireless underwater intervention drone and an ROV on the Njord field located offshore Norway. The contract will make Equinor the first user of technology expected to be completed in 2020, Equinor said on Wednesday. “This is [...]

Africa accounts for 3.4 per cent of the total global active refining capacity in 2018, according to a recent report by GlobalData. Refining capacity in Africa increased from 3,423 mbd in 2013 to 3,544 mbd in 2018 at an average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 0.7 per cent. It is [...]

Office will initially house 10 staff with room for expansion as operations in the city grow. Orsted has held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of its office New York City. The new office will initially house approximately 10 staff, including one of the US executive team members, but [...]

Internet giant Google LLC on Thursday announced plans to buy up to 1.6 GW of renewable power in what it says is the “biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history.” The buy-up will be carried out through 18 deals, including mostly solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) that will lift Google’s [...]

DNV GL carried out research into future expectations for the UK government's BEIS department.  Offshore wind load factors in the UK are expected to increase to over 50% by 2035 from 39% to 47% currently, according to new research by DNV GL. The report – 'Potential to improve load factor [...]

The site in Aalborg in Denmark will be up and running before the year-end.  Siemens Gamesa has begun construction of the world’s largest wind turbine blade test stand in Denmark. The Aalborg site will be capable of performing full-scale tests on future generations of Siemens Gamesa rotor blades. The test [...]

Six developers working with Joint Nature Conservation Committee on initiative to look at project impacts.  The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) is working with six offshore wind developers on an initiative that aims to gain a better understanding of how offshore wind farms impact marine birds. The Offshore Wind Strategic [...]

The topside will be constructed using the Scaldis heavy-lift vessel Gulliver. The offshore substation for the 219MW offshore wind farm Northwester 2 off the coast of Belgium in the North Sea is about to be installed. The topside, provided by Bladt with Semco delivering electrical components, is being installed using [...]

Norwegian survey service firm TGS and US oilfield services company Schlumberger have announced a strategic collaboration on a new 3D seismic reimaging project in the Egyptian Red Sea. As part of the project, data will be reimaged from three overlapping seismic surveys which total 3,600km² acquired between 1999 and 2008. [...]