Vår Energi completed Zagato appraisal tests at Goliat Ridge, with both intervals flowing above 4,000 bopd and gross resource potential stated at more than 200 million boe.
Chevron and partners have taken FID to expand the Leviathan gas platform offshore Israel, adding new wells and subsea infrastructure to lift gas deliveries to Israel and regional markets to about 21 bcm a year.
Next Geosolutions’ Rana Subsea agreed a Middle East Letter of Intent for SAT diving valued at about $150 million, alongside the fleet entry of NG Supporter via the Siem Day acquisition.
TotalEnergies and BluEnergies signed a JSAA for Liberia’s Harper Basin, backing 3D seismic reprocessing and new sea-bottom datasets over an 18-month evaluation programme.
CIMC Raffles has delivered the NG20000X-class WTIV Norse Energi to DEME in Yantai, adding a DC-based, hybrid-propulsion vessel with a 3,200 t crane for North Sea offshore wind projects.
Valeura Energy has finished a nine-well campaign on Block B5/27 in the Gulf of Thailand and plans a 16-well 2026 program across its Thai fields, supported by a rig and Wassana redevelopment work.
A new Gan River shipyard in Nanchang’s Xinjian District is being developed by Nanchang Lianwei Shipbuilding. The CNY1 billion, 172-hectare yard will build up to 50,000 DWT vessels and support low-emission, non-fossil-fuel propulsion.
Spliethoff’s m/v Brouwersgracht and m/v Bloemgracht clear Rio and sail to Guarujá to begin Raia Project operations, supplying about 200,000 m of pipeline for Saipem.
Equinor and Empire Wind won a preliminary injunction in D.C. federal court against the Trump administration’s 22 December stop-work order, allowing the partly built New York offshore wind farm to resume work.
