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  • BP to slash jobs in UK North Sea

    15 January 2015

    British oil giant BP has informed its UK North Sea staff that the company will be reducing its workforce as a response to toughening market conditions. In response, UK’s trade union RMT has issued a statement, warning of lasting damage to the UK’s long-term energy security from short term measures in response to the recent drop in oil […]

  • E.ON Strikes Gas in UK North Sea

    13 August 2013

    E.ON Exploration & Production’s (E&P) Tolmount gas discovery in the UK North Sea could contain significantly higher volumes than originally estimated, making it one of the largest discoveries made in this part of the North Sea for several years. The recently completed appraisal well reached its targets within time and budget on 6th July. A […]

  • Decom North Sea Appoints New CEO

    19 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    Decom North Sea, the membership organisation for the oil and gas decommissioning sector, has appointed John Warrender as chief executive, starting on August 01, 2018. Most recently John worked as an independent advisor to the industry, applying his specific expertise in corporate governance and performance improvement. He spent over 20 years with ConocoPhillips in a range […]

  • Equinor all set to drill North Sea wildcat

    16 December 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Equinor has secured a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for an exploration well in the North Sea off Norway.

  • Offshore worker dies on North Sea platform

    7 December 2016

    An offshore worker has died in an accident aboard a North Sea platform, offshore UK. According to available information, the worker employed aboard a Perenco-run platform died after an incident on Tuesday, December 5. Norfolk Eastern Daily Press has managed to obtain a statement from a Perenco spokesperson, who confirmed the fatal incident happened on […]

  • WGP to begin North Sea shoot in April

    14 March 2017

    Marine seismic services provider WGP Group, a subsidiary of Thalassa Holdings, has been preparing to mobilize for its 2017 Spring North Sea projects. WGP’s parent company said on Tuesday that preparations are now well underway with operations anticipated to start during April, as scheduled. The company did not reveal any further details about its spring […]

  • Exceed secures North Sea well work

    30 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Aberdeen-headquartered well management specialist Exceed has secured four new North Sea contracts in the first quarter of 2017 with a combined revenue of approximately £5.5 million ($6.8M). Exceed said in a statement on Thursday that the work includes a new contract for its Performance Improvement division, a well management project, and two engineering studies. This will […]

  • Cluff abandons North Sea deal with Verus

    13 February 2017

    Cluff Natural Resources has abandoned its plans to buy a pair of North Sea licenses from Verus Petroleum.  To remind, on May 10, 2016, the company said it had entered into an option with Verus Petroleum to acquire a 25% interest in licenses P1944 (Block 14/20e) and P2156 (Block 15/11 & 16f) located in the […]

  • Dolphin Bags Several North Sea Contracts

    14 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Dolphin Geophysical has been awarded several contracts for the upcoming North Sea season. The awards are for both 3D and 4D seismic services and will  involve three of Dolphin’s 3D seismic vessels with a total duration in the range of 8-12 months. “These early awards with major clients improve our earnings visibility and supports our […]

  • DOF grabs North Sea contract for PSV

    29 January 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Norwegian offshore vessel owner DOF Group has been awarded a new contract for one of its platform supply vessels (PSVs) in the UK sector of the North Sea.

  • Flexlife secures work with Apache in North Sea

    11 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Flexlife, a provider of flexible pipe integrity and engineering services to the oil and gas industry, has won a subsea project management and engineering support contract with Apache North Sea Limited. According to Flexlife, the contract includes work on the Aviat gas development in the Central North Sea, the Ness/Nevis tie in, and general subsea operations […]

  • WGP Prepares for North Sea Spring Campaign

    14 March 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    WGP Group informed that the preparations for 2017 Spring North Sea projects are in full swing. WGP’s parent company, Thalassa, said that the seismic operations are on track and anticipated to start during April. WGP in December 2016 secured a contract from ConocoPhillips Skandinavia to acquire seismic data on the Eldfisk field in the North Sea. The […]

  • EnQuest celebrates North Sea safety milestone

    18 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    Neil McCulloch, President of EnQuest’s North Sea business, said: “This is an exceptional achievement by our teams on three North Sea assets that started life in the 1970s…

  • RockRose buys Idemitsu’s North Sea fields

    8 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    RockRose Energy has completed the previously announced acquisition of Idemitsu Petroleum UK and its assets in the UK North Sea. As part of the deal RockRose is taking over Idemitsu’s stakes in North Sea fields Ross, Blake, Tain, Nelson, Howe, Balmoral, Stirling, Beauly, Burghley, and Galley fields operated by Shell, Premier, and Repsol. “Following receipt […]

  • Talisman bites dust in North Sea wildcat

    20 May 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Talisman Energy Norge AS, operator of production licence 672, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 15/12-24 S, in the North Sea. The well is dry. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) granted Talisman a drilling permit for this well in April 2015. The well was drilled in the central part of the North Sea about […]

  • Four new directors for Decom North Sea

    8 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Decom North Sea (DNS), the offshore oil and gas decommissioning forum, held its Annual General Meeting last night in St Andrews, Scotland, with four new directors elected and two directors re-elected from across all sectors of the decommissioning industry. Attendees were appraised of Decom North Sea activity over the past year and given an update […]

  • VIDEO: Bell Pump Busy in the North Sea

    8 November 2019
    Business & Finance

     A pump from Bell Dredging Pumps B.V. was used recently in the construction of an offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The Dutch dredging specialist has just released this beautiful video of a custom Bell 250 dredge pump with double cutter head that is dredging tubular piles at 80 meters deep. According to […]

  • WorleyParsons wins North Sea contract extension

    15 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    WorleyParsons has been awarded a contract extension by Maersk Oil UK Limited, part of the Total group.

  • MDL backs TechnipFMC’s projects in North Sea

    3 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Back-deck equipment specialist Maritime Developments (MDL) has completed two projects for subsea services provider TechnipFMC in two North Sea basins.

  • Decom North Sea collaborates with DARe in Brunei

    17 June 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    Decom North Sea (DNS) has created an agreement designed to deliver a mutually beneficial relationship between its members and Brunei’s growing late life & decommissioning sector. Darussalam Enterprise (DARe) was created to support the growth of small and medium Brunei local enterprises, and as the Southeast Asian offshore industry’s late life and decommissioning phase begins […]

  • Norway: Statoil Hits Dust in the North Sea

    17 December 2010
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 269, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 35/1-2 S. The well was dry. The well is located about twelve kilometres west of the earlier Peon discovery in the North Sea. The purpose of the well was to prove petroleum in early Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Cook formation). […]

  • PA Resources in North Sea assets disposal

    9 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Swedish oil company PA Resources has signed an agreement to divest its portfolio of North Sea assets to Petrogas E&P.  The sale includes the company’s 24% interest in license 12/06 in Denmark, which holds the Broder Tuck and Lille John discoveries, as well as its exploration licenses in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. According to the […]

  • Apache offloads North Sea pipeline stake

    2 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    Oil and gas company Apache is selling its interest in the Scottish Area Gas Evacuation system (SAGE) and Beryl pipeline. The buyer has already lined up Wood Group as the operating partner at SAGE and Beryl.  Ancala Midstream informed on Wednesday it will acquire Apache’s 30.28 percent share of SAGE, and its 60.56 per cent interest […]

  • TWMA wins new North Sea contracts

    4 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Specialist drilling waste management company, TWMA, has secured new contracts valued at £20 million in the North Sea in the first eight months of 2019.

  • North Sea platform reaches recycling yard

    2 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation

    After 30 years in the North Sea, Equinor’s Veslefrikk B platform has now reached a yard where it will be recycled.