Jeremy Beckman

6 days ago | offshore-mag.com | Jeremy Beckman

Xodus Group has prepared a report for the Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) that details measures for coordinated management of underwater noise at the various offshore energy projects operating in the North Sea. The Underwater Noise Conflict Resolution Framework Report explains how multiple developers are working under different regulatory regimes to deliver their offshore wind, oil and gas, and carbon capture and storage schemes.

1 week ago | offshore-mag.com | Jeremy Beckman

An INPEX Browse E&P-led joint venture has started pre-FEED studies for the Bonaparte CCS (carbon capture and storage) project offshore Australia’s Northern Territory. The other co-venturers are TotalEnergies CCS Australia and Woodside Energy. The proposed development location is about 260 km offshore Darwin. The venture was formed in 2022 to appraise greenhouse-gas (GHG) storage assessment acreage in Block G-7-AP. According to INPEX, this is potentially one of the world’s largest CCS projects.

1 week ago | offshore-mag.com | Jeremy Beckman

CNOOC has brought onstream the Wenchang 9-7 oilfield development in the western Pearl River Mouth Basin offshore China. This is said to be the first offshore low permeability oil field to employ miscible gas flooding for improved oil recovery. Wenchang 9-7, in an average water depth of about 120 m, features a new drilling and production platform connected to infrastructure serving adjacent development facilities for development.

2 weeks ago | offshore-mag.com | Jeremy Beckman

In western Europe, Navantia Seanergies and Semco Maritime have announced a new offshore wind substation partnership at the WindEurope exhibition in Copenhagen. They plan to offer a project life-cycle approach, drawing on experience of maintaining more than 40 offshore substations across Europe. Their focus will be on developments offshore Europe and North America, complementing Semco Maritime’s existing collaboration with Vietnamese fabricator PTSC M&C, which extends to the Asia-Pacific sector.

2 weeks ago | offshore-mag.com | Jeremy Beckman

Sunda Energy subsidiary SundaGas Banda Unipessoal has submitted two draft reports concerning the Chuditch-2 appraisal well in the Timor Sea to the Timor-Leste regulator Autoridade Nacional do Petróleo (ANP). The drafts, both available for public consultation, are for the environmental impact statement and the environmental management plan for the planned well on production sharing contract (PSC) TL-SO-19-16.