Norway-based cleantech service provider Soiltech has won a new assignment to perform fluid treatment and other services on a semi-submersible rig managed by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor. Deepsea Yantai; Source: Odfjell Drilling Thanks …

ConocoPhillips Australia (COPA), a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered energy giant ConocoPhillips, has intersected gas in Waarre reservoirs during drilling activities at a well in the Otway Basin off the coast of Australia, with a semi-submersible rig …

ConocoPhillips has identified probable gas across all targeted Waarre sandstone reservoirs at its Charlemont-1 exploration well in Australia’s Otway Basin, resuming drilling after an earlier pressure-related pause before suspending operations again due to …

Swiss concrete giant Holcim has bought a minority stake in the French floating offshore wind specialist BW Ideol.  The French floating wind pioneer uses concrete as the primary material in its floating offshore wind platform design and plans to work with …

ABS has issued an Approval in Principle (AIP) to Seatrium for the company’s offshore substation (OSS) design, described as a next-generation offshore HVAC platform engineered for scalability. Seatrium has built several offshore converter platforms for …

… options for its 2016-built semisubmersible rig, *Transocean Enabler*, in … long-term partnerships in the offshore drilling market. Transocean’s recent contract … navigates the complexities of the offshore drilling industry. With these developments, Transocean …

Published Jan 9, 2026 7:07 am ET Safe Caledonia (Credit: Prosafe) Oil and gas firm Ithaca Energy has exercised all three remaining weeks of options for Prosafe’s Safe Caledonia accommodation rig, which will continue providing support at its Captain field …

Equinor has spudded in the southern Barents Sea one of its largest planned exploration prospects for 2026 that could underpin a standalone project if successful. The Vikingskipet prospect is located in the south-west corner of the Barents, quite some …

… DP allows ships and mobile offshore drilling units (MODU) to stay … This technology is vital for offshore drilling, subsea construction and other operations … seen on MODUs (e.g., drillships, semisubmersibles), subsea construction vessels and specialized …

The December 26, 2025, guidelines issued by the Ministry for implementing the Shipbuilding Financial Assistance Scheme had omitted chemical carriers from the list of specialised vessels.The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways has amended the …