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.
Bernhard Schulte Offshore has taken delivery of the CSOV Windea Clarke from Ulstein Verft, adding a hybrid battery propulsion vessel to its offshore wind fleet.
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.
JERA Nex bp has acquired Sumitomo Corporation’s stakes in Nobelwind and Northwester 2, increasing its ownership in two offshore wind farms in Belgium.
LS GreenLink has started construction of a 201 m VCV tower at its HVDC subsea cable factory in Chesapeake, Virginia. The USD 681 million project is expected to become the largest submarine cable production facility in the US, with commercial production planned for Q1 2028.
South Korea awarded 1,786 MW across five offshore wind projects in its first-half 2026 auction. Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners secured more than 1 GW through the Haesong 3 and Haewoori 2 projects.
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.
