NYK Line has named and launched Alfonsino Arrow, its first Japan-built crew transfer vessel, an aluminium catamaran based on a Northern Offshore Services design to carry workers for offshore wind projects in Japan.
MISC and China Offshore have obtained an AiP from ABS for an ammonia FPSO concept that converts unused offshore gas into blue ammonia, with 1 million tonnes per year capacity and 99.8% purity.
BW Energy has turned its short-term lease on jack-up BW MAROMBA B into a long-term project lease with MSFL, covering $274 million of Maromba CAPEX and starting at first oil with a ten-year term.
Valaris Limited has signed a multi-year $300 million contract with Shell for the drillship VALARIS DS-8 on the Orca project offshore Brazil, with operations starting in Q1 2027.
bp has started up the Atlantis Drill Center 1 expansion in US Gulf of Mexico waters, its seventh major 2025 project, adding 15,000 boe/d and lifting Atlantis capacity to 200,000 b/d.
A federal judge in Massachusetts has invalidated section two of President Trump’s Wind Order, cancelling the open-ended freeze on US wind project permitting while leaving a separate leasing suspension in place.
Deepwater semi-submersible SSV Catarina will remain on hire with Eni Indonesia after drilling the Konta-1 gas discovery in the Kutei basin, with a new option well extending work into Q2 2026 and adding $20 million of backlog.
The cable-laying vessel BOKA Ocean has installed the final inter-array cable at Borkum Riffgrund 3, completing a four-campaign programme that also involved Ndeavor and earlier work with Rockpiper and DolWin epsilon in the area.
Norway will allocate Utsira Nord floating wind areas to the Harald Hårfagre JV and an Equinor–Vårgrønn consortium, the two bidders in the first tender, ahead of a state-aid competition worth up to NOK 35 billion.
