A London court jailed captain Vladimir Motin for six years after the March 2025 North Sea collision between Solong and Stena Immaculate that killed seafarer Mark Angelo Pernia.
Equinor has obtained a Norwegian Offshore Directorate permit for a North Sea wildcat well, to be drilled in March 2026 with the COSL Innovator under production licence 782 S.
NOD reports a petroleum discovery at Knockando Fensfjord in PL 055 confirmed by well 31/4-A-15 D, with preliminary estimates of 0.5–1.5 million standard cubic meters OE if oil.
DEA has authorized start-up of the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm in the North Sea. RWE leads construction and operations, with completion required by end-2027 and a 30-year production permit.
Germany will run the N-10.1 and N-10.2 offshore wind tenders in 2027 instead of 2026, after the August 2025 auction drew no bids and officials revise the auction design.
North Sea states plan to endorse a declaration in Hamburg committing to 100GW of joint offshore wind by 2050, while boosting security cooperation around offshore energy infrastructure, according to a draft reported by Bloomberg.
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.
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.
AF Offshore Decom signed a NOK 225–275 million contract with Ithaca Energy to dismantle and recycle a 23,000 t floating production platform from the UK North Sea in 2026.
