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  • Gas uptick for Shell’s North Sea development project

    15 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Shell has disclosed better porosity and permeability than previously assumed for its natural gas discovery in the North Sea, which is situated on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). This led the firm’s partner, Deltic Energy, to reveal a boost in recoverable gas volumes from the project.

  • Shell evacuates North Sea platform

    8 February 2016

    Shell has evacuated eighty workers from one of its UK North Sea platform. The news first broke on the Scottish television website STV on Monday. In an e-mail to Offshore Energy Today on Monday,  a Shell spokesperson confirmed there had been an evacuation of Brent Bravo platform on Sunday night. A Shell spokesman said: “Shell UK can […]

  • New protection boat for North Sea

    22 November 2007

    A new £1.5m fisheries protection vessel is set to begin patrolling the waters off the east coast of northern England. The vessel will undertake fisheries enforcement work, including inspection of catches, fishing boats and fishing gear from Tyneside to Lincolnshire.

  • IOG in North Sea licence extensions

    31 December 2015

    Independent Oil and Gas plc (IOG) has secured an extension from the Oil and Gas Authority for the Cronx licence in the UK North Sea by one year to January 9, 2017. IOG has also agreed to extend the Sale and Purchase agreement entered into in March 2015, with Swift Exploration by 9 months to September […]

  • New platform debuts in North Sea

    2 November 2010

    Gas production is due to start soon from a newly installed gas platform in the Dutch sector of the North Sea which is designed to be reused. Centrica’s F3-FA new gas field development features a jackup platform fitted with suction anchors and has been specially designed for marginal and sub-marginal fields where it can used […]

  • UK: Subsea 7 confirms $75M North Sea Pipeline Bundle Contract for Apache North Sea

    2 July 2010
    Equipment

    Subsea 7 Inc can confirm today that the US $75m North Sea pipeline bundle contract award it announced on 26th April 2010 was for Apache North Sea Ltd’s Bacchus Subsea Development Project in the UK sector of the North Sea. The Subsea 7 work scope is to engineer, procure, fabricate, install and commission a 7km […]

  • No action over North Sea alert

    28 July 2008

    No further action is to be taken against a woman who was responsible for one of the largest offshore emergency alerts in years when she reported a “possible suspicious device” on board the Safe Britannia support vessel while it was bridge-lined to the UK Britannia platform Dana Rosu triggered the bomb alert in February this […]

  • North Sea trials underway for Odyssey of the Seas

    16 March 2021
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Odyssey of the Seas, Royal Caribbean International’s second Quantum Ultra-class cruise vessel under construction at Germany’s Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, set off on an extensive sea trial on late 14 March.

  • N-Sea DSV ready for North Sea

    10 February 2015

    N-Sea, the Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) specialist, has launched its third diving support vessel. The Edradour represents a £1.5 million investment for the company and will be immediately utilised in its industry-leading IMR operations in the North Sea, as well as in The Netherlands and Germany. Launched in Aberdeen Harbour at the beginning of […]

  • OPT PB3 PowerBuoy Set for North Sea Debut

    13 August 2019
    Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    Ocean Power Technologies, in partnership with the Acteon Group, has recently unveiled the PB3 PowerBuoy in Montrose – prior to its demonstration in the North Sea on Premier’s Huntington field. The project, supported by the OGTC and Premier Oil, is PB3 PowerBuoy’s first-of-its-kind deployment in the North Sea, whereby a moored buoy captures power from […]

  • Equinor set to drill North Sea well duo

    19 November 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Equinor is ready to drill two wells in the North Sea offshore Norway following the receipt of approvals and permits from the Norwegian authorities.

  • RWE Dea bites dust in North Sea wildcat

    19 December 2014
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    RWE Dea Norge AS, operator of production licence 420, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 35/9-12 S, in the North Sea, off Norway.  The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) granted RWE Dea a drilling permit for the well 35/9-12 S in November. The well was drilled about 20 kilometres southwest of […]

  • Lundin benefits by North Sea sale

    4 November 2010

    Norwegian explorer Lundin Petroleum saw net profit attributable to shareholders rise to US $421.1 million for the nine months to September, up from $10.5 m last year on the back of the sale of its UK assets to EnQuest.

  • Dumping North Sea fish ‘immoral’

    20 November 2007

    Fishing quotas are getting tighter, fishermen are considering their futures and scientists say further cuts to catches of species such as cod are needed to help numbers recover.

  • Equinor sets sights on two North Sea wildcats

    15 February 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Rules & Regulation

    Norway’s Equinor has secured a drilling permit for two wildcat wells located in the North Sea offshore Norway.

  • North Sea firm to reinforce energy security by buying ‘one of the largest undeveloped fields in the UK North Sea’

    12 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Waldorf Production has inked a deal to buy the entire share capital of Alpha Petroleum from Shorelight Partners to bolster energy security.

  • UK: Acergy S.A. Awarded Contract in the North Sea

    4 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    Acergy S.A. announced today the award of a contract valued at approximately $50 million from Dana Petroleum PLC on the Medway Development Project in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. This contract is for the tieback of two subsea wells and the associated dedicated flowlines and umbilicals from the Van Nes and Van Ghent […]

  • BP and Petrofac extend their North Sea relationship

    15 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    BP has prolonged its collaboration with Petrofac for work at its oil and gas assets in the North Sea.

  • Wintershall Dea preparing to drill North Sea well

    27 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Wintershall Dea Norge has received a drilling permit from Norway’s authorities for a wildcat well located in the North Sea. 

  • Decom North Sea hires interim boss

    24 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    Decom North Sea, a membership organization for the oil and gas decommissioning sector, has appointed Dr Tom Leeson as interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO).  Starting his role with immediate effect, Leeson brings almost 30 years’ industry experience to the role, 15 of which have included activity within the decommissioning sector, the organization said on Friday. […]

  • Australia’s Talon in another North Sea acquisition

    31 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Australia-based Talon Petroleum has entered into a binding heads of agreement for the purchase of 100% of the shares in EnCounter Oil, which owns two UK North Sea licenses.  EnCounter is a private, UK-based company formed in 2012 by key former members of the executive management team of EnCore Oil. EnCore was a London-listed, North Sea […]

  • Chevron extends Petrofac’s North Sea contract

    3 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Petrofac’s Engineering and Production Services (EPS) division has secured a 12-month engineering services contract extension from Chevron North Sea.

  • Statoil set to drill North Sea wildcat well

    12 March 2018
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted oil major Statoil a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.

  • ViaLogy Starts Work on North Sea Project

    16 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    ViaLogy PLC announces it has initiated work on a North Sea project for one of the largest geosciences companies. In developed fields such as the North Sea the challenge of locating additional deposits is a well-known impediment to continued economic production. Yet exploitable reserves remain if they can be located and accurately characterized. This project […]

  • Two North Sea contract renewals for Petrofac

    28 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    Petrofac’s Engineering and Production Services business has been awarded two Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contract extensions for long-standing clients worth a combined value of approximately $32 million.