Energy

Neptune Energy announces that drilling operations have begun at its operated Yakoot exploration well, located in the North West El Amal Concession in the southern Gulf of Suez, Egypt.

Ichthys LNG, a US$45 billion project operated by Japanese joint venture INPEX, turned four last year, and with that milestone came the requirement for maintenance and testing its backbone of ABB designed and installed electrical system.

Equinor and its partners expect to increase production by 26 million barrels of oil equivalents from Statfjord Øst.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”), through Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (“MSIP”), and US maritime, energy and logistics solutions leader Crowley announces the creation of a new joint venture to advance offshore wind energy solutions for the United States.

As required by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will publish the Final Notice of Sale (FNOS) and Record of Decision (ROD) for Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261 in the Federal Register on August 25, 2023. BOEM plans to conduct the lease sale on September 27, 2023.

RelyOn Nutec UK (RelyOn), leaders in practical and digital training for traditional and renewable energy, announces the launch of its technical training programs, backed by £500k of investment in staff, facilities, and equipment.

Global OTEC Resources and ENOGIA have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop key subsystems of the first commercial-scale Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) floating platforms.

Ocean services provider DeepOcean has been awarded a contract by Equinor to support the Troll B–Increased Gas Export project, located in the northern part of the North Sea.

The Hywind Tampen wind farm was opened on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, by Crown Prince Haakon of Norway. Gullfaks and Snorre are the first oil and gas fields in the world to receive power from offshore wind, reducing CO2 emissions.

The Correll Group, Electrical Engineering Division is pleased to announce that it has been contracted by Seaway 7 to complete the termination and testing of 29 66 kV inter-array cables (IAC) and four landfall export cables on Zhong Neng Offshore Wind Farm. Scope of work also includes pre and post engineering and logistical operations.

Ampelmann, the Dutch offshore access provider, has signed a new contract to build two more W-type systems for Ulstein, on behalf of one of Germany’s major shipowners. This is Ampelmann's second contract with Ulstein to provide an integrated gangway system on two new vessels, further cementing the trust and reliability the Norwegian ship builders have with the company's gangways and services.

MODEC, Inc. (MODEC) announced that the FPSO Anita Garibaldi MV33 achieved First Oil production on August 16, 2023. Deployed for production operations at the Marlim field in the Campos Basin off the coast of Brazil, the FPSO is leased on a 25-year time charter contract to Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), the Brazilian giant oil company.