Offshore

Offshore may refer to:

Finance and law

  • Offshoring, active movement of companies to offshore centers
  • Offshore financial centre, jurisdictions which transact financial business with non-residents
  • Offshore investment, relates to the wider financial services industry in offshore centers
  • Offshore bank, relates to the banking industry in offshore centers
  • Offshore company
  • Offshore Stock Broker, relates to stock brokers in offshore centers
  • Offshore fund, collective investment in offshore centers
  • Offshore trust, trust arranged in offshore jurisdiction
  • Technology

  • Offshore drilling, discovery and development of oil and gas resources which lie underwater through drilling a well
  • Offshore (hydrocarbons)
  • Offshore construction, construction out at sea
  • Offshore powerboat racing, powerboat racing
  • Offshore hosting, server
  • Offshore wind power, wind power in a body of water
  • Arts

  • Offshore (novel), a 1979 British novel by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • "Offshore" (song), a 1996 song by British electronic dance music act Chicane
  • Offshore (novel)

    Offshore (1979) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. It won the Booker Prize for that year. It recalls her time spent on boats on the Thames in Battersea. The novel explores the liminality of people who do not belong to the land or the sea, but are somewhere in between. The epigraph, "che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue" ("whom the wind drives, or whom the rain beats, or those who clash with such bitter tongues") comes from Canto XI of Dante's Inferno.

    List of Characters and Their Boats (in order)

    Lord Jim

  • Richard Blake, husband, aged 39
  • Laura Blake, wife, also known as Lollie
  • Maurice

  • Maurice
  • Harry, Maurice's acquaintance, who uses the boat for his own purposes but does not live on board
  • Grace

  • Nenna James, mother
  • Martha James, Nenna's teenage daughter.
  • Tilda (Matilda) James, Nenna's younger daughter, who is six years old
  • Edward James, estranged father and husband, who visits the boat only once
  • Stripey (the cat)
  • Dreadnought

  • Willis, painter, widower, 65 years old
  • Offshore (hydrocarbons)

    "Offshore", when used relative to hydrocarbons, refers to an oil, natural gas or condensate field that is under the sea, or to activities or operations carried out in relation to such a field. There are various types of platform used in the development of offshore oil and gas fields, and subsea facilities.

    Offshore exploration is performed with floating drilling units.

    References

  • Petroleum industry glossary from Saipem Spa.
  • Petroleum industry glossary from Anson Ltd
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    Major�Offshore�Wind Developer has Stopped Activities in United States

    gCaptain 25 Apr 2025
    The company was the lone bidder in�a 2023 auction�of�offshore�wind development rights in the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump has renamed the Gulf of America, securing a lease off the coast of Louisiana for just $5.6 million.
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    RWE is Latest to Stop U.S. Offshore Wind Activities

    The Maritime Executive 25 Apr 2025
    ... offshore work on a full-permitted wind farm off New York ... RWE became the largest leaseholder in the New York Bight with a potential 3-gigawatt area it won in the hotly contested 2022 offshore auction.
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    Philippines flagged as top wind energy growth market despite hurdles—GWEC

    Manila Bulletin 23 Apr 2025
    Ann Francisco, GWEC country manager for the Philippines, further highlighted government actions such as the upcoming fifth Green Energy auction (GEA-5), which is expected to welcome investments for offshore wind developments.
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    Google pens first Asia Pacific offshore wind power deal

    Splash24/7 22 Apr 2025
    The project is important to the country’s offshore wind sector as it is the first project from Taiwan’s Round 3.1 auction to achieve financial close ... to install 5.7GW of offshore wind capacity by 2025.
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    Google to buy power from CIP’s wind farm in central Taiwan

    Taipei Times 22 Apr 2025
    Located about 35km off Taichung, the Fengmiao I project secured site exclusivity and 500-megawatt (MW) grid capacity in Taiwan’s Round 3.1 auction and is the first of Taiwan’s Round 3 Offshore Wind ...
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    US plans offshore oil and gas lease sales on OCS

    Offshore Technology 21 Apr 2025
    Despite the new initiative, the Interior Department confirmed that the offshore drilling auctions scheduled for the upcoming years in the Gulf of Mexico, referred to by the Trump administration as the ...
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    Tariff uncertainties hit liquid gold

    Dawn 21 Apr 2025
    This is a trying time for crude oil producers, and they desperately need to adapt to the changing scenario ... Brazil is preparing an extra auction this year for stakes in offshore oil areas to boost revenue, Reuters reported ... That has now changed ... .
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    Trump administration moves to expand offshore drilling — including in the Arctic

    The Hill 18 Apr 2025
    ... under the Trump plan, as the initial step being taken is called a “request for information,” which seeks to ask the public for input on where and when it should auction off offshore drilling rights.
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    Equinor Weighs Legal Challenge to Trump Admin’s Empire Wind Shutdown

    gCaptain 17 Apr 2025
    Trump’s Offshore Wind Halt Risks $28 Billion of Investment ... The previous administration had completed 11 commercial-scale offshore wind project approvals and six offshore lease auctions, including pioneering sales in various coastal regions.
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    Interior orders offshore wind project halted as Trump seeks 'no windmills'

    The Hill 17 Apr 2025
    On his first day in office, he issued an executive order that barred the government from auctioning off the rights to build wind farms offshore and also temporarily blocked new rights for wind on public lands.
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    Empire Wind 1 project at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal faces setback as Trump admin halts construction

    The Villager 17 Apr 2025
    On his first day back in office, however, Trump — who has previously claimed that wind turbines cause cancer — issued an executive order barring the federal government from auctioning off rights to build offshore wind farms.
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    Brooklyn’s Empire Wind 1 Project faces setback as Trump admin halts construction

    AM New York 17 Apr 2025
    On his first day back in office, however, Trump — who has previously claimed that wind turbines cause cancer — issued an executive order barring the federal government from auctioning off rights to build offshore wind farms.
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    Why India has pushed deep-sea mineral auction deadline to May 1

    Invezz 16 Apr 2025
    In November, India initiated the first phase of an auction for 13 offshore deep-sea mineral blocks ... This auction represents a significant step in India’s efforts to tap into the potentially vast mineral wealth of its offshore territories.
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