Ørsted completes installation of 66 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW turbines at the 920 MW Changhua 2b/4 offshore wind project in Taiwan; full site operation is expected in Q3 2026.
HTV Seaway Swan transports pretreatment and utility modules to the Woodfibre LNG site in Squamish, pushing construction toward 60% completion.
Samsung Heavy Industries has launched the 432 m FLNG Coral Norte for ENI at its Geoje shipyard, adding to a strong FLNG track record that includes six of ten global FLNG newbuild orders.
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.
Ukraine carried out drone strikes on three Russian Lukoil oil platforms in the Caspian Sea and also hit an air defence system and logistics sites, as both sides report further attacks on energy infrastructure.
Allseas is upgrading its heavy-lift vessel Pioneering Spirit, raising topsides single-lift capacity by 25% to 60,000 tonnes through a TLS upgrade ahead of major North Sea decommissioning and offshore wind projects into the 2030s.
China has installed what is billed as the world’s first 20 MW offshore wind turbine in the Minnan sea area off Fujian, over 30 km from shore, delivering more than 80 GWh a year and cutting CO₂ emissions by about 64,000 tonnes.
EnerMech has been awarded a subsea pre-commissioning package by Saipem on ExxonMobil’s $12.7 billion Whiptail oil project offshore Guyana, its fifth pre-commissioning campaign in the Stabroek block.
Upstream reports that COOEC has engineered, built and launched an offshore jacket for Saudi Aramco’s Abu Safah field, underlining the rising role of Chinese EPC contractors in Middle East offshore projects.
