A UK court convicted the Solong captain on 2 February over a fatal allision with the anchored tanker Stena Immaculate on 10 March 2025. Sentencing is reported for 5 February.
Century Wind Power has produced the first jacket foundations for CIP’s 495 MW Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan, with installation by CDWE scheduled to start this year.
Northern Offshore’s Energy Emerger jack-up rig has been contracted to drill three development wells at Masirah Oil’s offshore Yumna field in Oman’s Block 50, with the multi-well programme expected to start in March 2026.
McDermott will lead definition engineering for QatarEnergy’s first major offshore decommissioning project, developing a framework and studies to retire 27 platforms and associated subsea infrastructure.
Borr Drilling completed a $360 million purchase of five premium jack-ups from Noble Corporation, lifting its fleet to 29 rigs and supporting near-term opportunities across key offshore basins.
The African Development Bank has approved a $150 million senior loan for Eni’s Coral Norte FLNG project in Mozambique’s Rovuma basin, part of an offshore LNG development costing over $7 billion and forecast to generate above $20 billion in government revenues.
Noble adds about $1.3 billion backlog from nine rig awards, led by a three-year Noble GreatWhite Norway contract plus work in Nigeria, Guyana, the U.S. Gulf, Trinidad and South America.
Nine North Sea countries will sign a Hamburg declaration to build 100GW of joint offshore wind by 2050, using multi-country interconnectors to bolster energy security and regional power links.
Dominion Energy has begun installing the first Siemens Gamesa 14 MW turbine at the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, after a court injunction cleared the way for construction to continue.
