The Hugin B topside has departed Aker Solutions’ Verdal yard, completing a three-and-a-half-year delivery programme for Aker BP’s Yggdrasil and Valhall PWP-Fenris developments.
Wison New Energies has signed an EPCIC contract with Eni and Altera Infrastructure for the Baleine Phase 3 FPSO in Côte d’Ivoire, covering the project from FEED through engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning.
Norway’s offshore workers reached a wage agreement providing a 5.2% pay increase and higher pension contributions, preventing a strike that had been scheduled to begin at midnight.
DOF Group ASA has secured a two-year contract extension for the anchor handling tug supply vessel Skandi Vega with Equinor Energy AS, keeping the vessel firm until Q3 2029.
Altera Infrastructure has signed agreements with Eni for a new FPSO serving Baleine Phase 3 offshore Côte d’Ivoire under a fixed 15-year bareboat charter.
Vår Energi has received Havtil consent to start up and operate Balder Phase VI on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The project forms part of the Balder and Ringhorne development approved under the revised PDO.
MODEC’s FPSO Gato do Mato forward hull has departed Japan for China, where it will be integrated with the aft hull section before the project moves to its next phase.
BW Group and BW Offshore have appointed Matthew White as CEO of BW Elara. The joint venture will focus on floating desalination solutions to help address water scarcity through floating desalination units.
Norwegian offshore unions entered state-mediated wage talks to prevent a wider strike affecting drilling rigs, floating platforms and oil service operations as a separate labour dispute continues.
