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The Cygnus project, which will develop the largest gas discovery in the Southern North Sea in the last 25 years has reached a milestone. Construction of the Cygnus Alpha Platform, the first of four platforms for the Cygnus field, is nearing completion at Heerema’s fabrication yard in Hartlepool. The 1,640 tonne Cygnus Alpha Wellhead topsides left […]
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Lundin Norway AS has received the PSA Norway approval to use the Island Innovator drilling rig in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The company will use the rig to drill and perform production testing of wildcat well 25/10-12 in production licence 625. Drilling is planned to begin in December, with a duration of approximately […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded the hook up and commissioning (HUC) support contract for GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd’s Cygnus gas field development, the UK Southern North Sea’s largest gas discovery in the last 25 years. The HUC support contract for the four Cygnus platforms follows on from the […]
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AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded the hook up and commissioning (HUC) support contract for GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd’s Cygnus gas field development, the UK Southern North Sea’s largest gas discovery in the last 25 years. The HUC support contract for the four Cygnus platforms follows on from the […]
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Centrica Chief Executive Sam Laidlaw gave a keynote address at the Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen, one of the largest oil and gas events in Europe. Sam first spoke about the recent tragedy, which claimed the lives of four people from the oil and gas industry in a helicopter crash off Shetland. He said: “Our […]
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Centrica Chief Executive Sam Laidlaw gave a keynote address at the Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen, one of the largest oil and gas events in Europe. Sam first spoke about the recent tragedy, which claimed the lives of four people from the oil and gas industry in a helicopter crash off Shetland. He said: “Our […]
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Business & Finance, Project & Tenders
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wintershall a drilling permit for well 35/9-10 S, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Well 35/9-10 S will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling rig at position 61°15’07.02” north and 3°41’04.10” east for Wintershall Norge AS in production licence 418. The drilling programme for well 35/9-10 […]
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Lundin Petroleum AB has completed the drilling of wildcat well 16/4-7. The well was drilled on PL544 about 14 km northeast of the Sleipner Øst field in the middle part of the Norwegian North Sea. The exploration well 16/4-7, operated by Lundin Norway, was targeting the Biotitt prospect. The well encountered no hydrocarbons and is […]
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BP has informed that due to a defect gas compressor at the Ula field, which serves as a processing hub for nearby oil fields, Ula will not be able to recto receive and process production from satellite fields, leaving the Oselvar field shut down. The news has been revealed by Noreco in a filing to Oslo Bors. […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment
GE control valve technology has been selected for an offshore production platform that is a key component in the development of the Hejre oil and gas field in the Danish sector of the North Sea. The development project is expected to increase the reliability of Denmark’s oil and gas supply and is a significant step […]
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Business & Finance, Project & Tenders
Lundin Petroleum AB announce that drilling of exploration well 16/4-7 in PL544 has commenced. The well will target the Biotitt prospect, which is located some 35 km south of the Edvard Grieg Field and 46 km southwest of the Johan Sverdrup Field. The main objective of well 16/4-7 is to prove the presence of hydrocarbons […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development
Statoil and its partners have made the investment decision for a joint oil export solution for the Edvard Grieg and Ivar Aasen fields. The oil will be transported via a 43-kilometre oil pipeline from Edvard Grieg to the Grane oil pipeline, and then on to Sture. The transport solution is a precondition for developing the […]
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Statoil and its partners have made the investment decision for a joint oil export solution for the Edvard Grieg and Ivar Aasen fields. The oil will be transported via a 43-kilometre oil pipeline from Edvard Grieg to the Grane oil pipeline, and then on to Sture. The transport solution is a precondition for developing the […]
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An important step towards more Danish oil and gas. On Wednesday, 19 June, first steel was cut for a 15,000 tonne heavy production platform in shipyard in South Korea. The platform will be shipped from South Korea to the Hejre field in the Danish North Sea in 2015. In 2016, the Hejre platform will be […]
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/4-7, in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. Well 16/4-7 will be drilled from the Bredford Dolphin drilling rig. The drilling programme for well 16/4-7 concerns the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 544. Lundin is the operator […]
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Business & Finance, Research & Development
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic Margin, Norway and the UK, announces the 22nd Norwegian Licence Round award of a new licence PL716 in the Barents Sea. The Dazzler prospect contained within PL716 (Faroe 20%) is located 90 kilometres to the north […]
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Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic Margin, Norway and the UK, announces the 22nd Norwegian Licence Round award of a new licence PL716 in the Barents Sea. The Dazzler prospect contained within PL716 (Faroe 20%) is located 90 kilometres to the north […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance
The recently completed drilling on Volve has proven additional volumes in the north-western section of the field, which are estimated to comprise between 8.8–9.4 million barrels of oil. This discovery signifies a doubling of the field’s remaining reserves. Volve is situated approximately 200 km west of Stavanger in the southern part of the Norwegian continental […]
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Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil has today announced that the recently completed drilling on Volve field has proven additional volumes in the north-western section of the field, which are estimated to comprise between 8.8–9.4 million barrels of oil. This discovery signifies a doubling of the field’s remaining reserves. Volve is situated approximately 200 km west of […]
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The Rt Hon Edward Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the UK, joined GDF SUEZ E&P UK in Aberdeen yesterday to witness the signing of another major contract with the UK supply chain for the Cygnus project. The deal with Burntisland Fabrication Ltd (BiFab) to construct the accommodation platform of […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development
Det norske oljeselskap ASA is now a fully fledged oil company with exploration, development and operation. This week, the Ivar Aasen development was approved by the Storting. At the same time, production of Det norske’s first self-produced oil as operator has commenced on the Jette field. COO Øyvind Bratsberg says that the company has passed […]
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Det norske oljeselskap ASA today announced that it has received approval from the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) for the Ivar Aasen development in the North Sea. Total investments in the project are estimated at NOK 24.7 billion (approximately $4.3 billion) COO Øyvind Bratsberg commented: “ When the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) of Ivar Aasen is approved by […]
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*Woodside to Develop Browse Reserves Using Shell’s FLNG Technology
*Petrofac Strikes Oil at Cendor, Malaysia
*First Steel Cut for Cygnus Jackets. Project Creates 100 Jobs (UK)
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Business & Finance, Equipment
The ceremonial first cut of steel for the construction of the jackets on the Cygnus gas field project was celebrated by operator GDF SUEZ E&P UK and partners Centrica Energy and Bayerngas at Burntisland Fabrication’s (BiFab) Methil yard in Fife, Scotland. This latest project milestone involves BiFab’s manufacturing facilities at Methil, Burntisland and Arnish and […]
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The ceremonial first cut of steel for the construction of the jackets on the Cygnus gas field project was celebrated today by operator GDF SUEZ E&P UK and partners Centrica Energy and Bayerngas at Burntisland Fabrication’s (BiFab) Methil yard in Fife, Scotland. This latest project milestone involves BiFab’s manufacturing facilities at Methil, Burntisland and Arnish […]
