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.
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.
UK CfD AR7 awarded 8.4GW of offshore wind—enough to power the equivalent of over 12 million homes—at an average £90.9 per megawatt hour for fixed-bottom projects.
Vantris Energy has secured T&I work from Petronas Carigali on Malaysia’s Sepat and Belud South projects and sold its 40% stake in L&T-Sapura Shipping to Larsen & Toubro for $30.5 million.
Charlemont-1, operated by ConocoPhillips Australia off Victoria, has encountered gas in deeper Waarre zones. The partners are weighing extra wireline logging to better define Otway Basin gas potential.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has issued an injunction that lets work resume on the almost complete Revolution Wind project, while court challenges to BOEM’s suspension orders issued in 2025 continue.
Saturation divers and an ROV installed a buoyant dynamic hose and seabed manifold at the Nini field, preparing an offshore connection for CO2 transport and injection under the INEOS-led Greensand scheme.
Japan has begun a month-long seabed trial near Minamitori Island using the vessel Chikyu to continuously lift rare-earth-bearing mud from about 6,000 m, part of efforts to diversify supply chains.
