PKR Offshore (PKRO), the offshore wind support arm of Singapore-listed Marco Polo Marine, has signed a framework agreement with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy covering the deployment and charter of two commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs).
Around 50 offshore workers employed on the Elgin Franklin and North Alwyn platforms in the UK North Sea have voted in favour of strike action, escalating a dispute over pay offers they have described as inadequate.
TotalEnergies is moving to advance its offshore ambitions in Syria, with chief executive Patrick Pouyanné signalling during a visit to Damascus that the French supermajor wants to progress from a preliminary understanding towards a firm exploration contract.
Southeast Asia is home to some of the world’s busiest shipping corridors, dense archipelagic coastlines, and rapidly growing coastal and offshore economies. As maritime activity intensifies, the region is reaching a safety and security inflection point, with more traffic, more complex threats, and a rapidly expanding toolkit of regulatory and technological responses that operators must understand and act on.
Offshore platform fire suppression is not a one-system decision. Each area of a platform presents a distinct fire hazard profile, and matching the right suppression technology to that profile is as important as the system’s raw performance. A system that is wrong for the application is not just ineffective. In some cases, it is dangerous.
OPITO certification is mentioned in almost every offshore workforce conversation, but it is rarely explained with any precision. Understanding what it covers, how its framework is structured, and where its limits lie changes how employers, contractors, and workers think about what offshore readiness actually means.
