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  • UK: EnQuest Extends Charter Contract for Sea Trout PSV

    21 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Deep Sea Supply, a ship owner and operator of a substantial number of Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessels (AHTS vessels) and Platform Supply Vessel (PSV), today said that its PSV, Sea Trout, has been awarded a 300 days extension of the time charter contract with EnQuest for operations in the North Sea, with an option […]

  • Gallery: ‘Blue King’ on sea trials

    11 March 2015

    Norwegian ship designer Ulstein has shared a couple of photos of the ‘Blue King’ platform supply vessel. The images show the vessel on sea trials, and according to Ulstein’s Facebook page, the vessel’s performance so far is “great”. According to Ulstein, Don Johansson, a member of the sea trial crew, took the images today. The […]

  • OGA adds seven more blocks to mature areas licensing round

    4 August 2017

    Following the recently launched 30th Licensing Round offering North Sea offshore blocks in mature areas to interested oil firms, the UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has now expanded the offer with seven more blocks. The seven additional blocks are: 110/5; 110/10; 110/16; 110/18; 113/24; 113/29; 113/30. According to the OGA, the blocks were not initially on offer pending clarification of […]

  • First Subsea’s Relatchable BSC for Gina Krog FPSO

    22 June 2015
    Equipment

    Subsea connector specialist, First Subsea, is supplying a relatchable bend stiffener connector to NOV Completion & Production Solutions for a flexible production riser for Statoil’s new Gina Krog, turret moored, Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) vessel in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The API 17L-1 compliant, Type II bend stiffener connector (BSC) comprises […]

  • New Gas and Condensate Discovery for Statoil

    23 July 2015
    Research & Development

    Operator Statoil and its PL146/PL333 partner Total E&P Norge have made a gas and condensate discovery in the Julius prospect in the King Lear area in the North Sea. The discovery well 2/4-23S, drilled by Maersk Gallant, proved gas and condensate in the Ula formation. Statoil estimates the volumes in Julius to be between 15 […]

  • DOF Subsea Nets New Contracts Worth USD 80 Mln

    15 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    DOF Subsea AS, a subsidiary of DOF ASA, has been awarded several contracts, with a total value of approx. NOK 475 million ($80 mil.). In the Asia Pacific region, DOF Subsea has been awarded several contracts including IMR services and subsea installation work. The contract awards will secure utilization for the vessels Skandi Singapore, Skandi […]

  • Dana Petroleum Becomes Operator of Triton FPSO (UK)

    1 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Today, Dana Petroleum (E&P) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dana Petroleum plc (Dana) takes over the operatorship of the Triton floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) from Hess and Dana acquires Hess’ 28.28% stake in the Bittern field, increasing Dana’s share in the field to 33%. Paul Griffin, Dana’s UK Managing Director, said, […]

  • Alnmaritec Sings Contract for Two Wave Master Class WFSV (UK)

    30 November 2011

    Alnmaritec, the specialist aluminium boat builder based in the North East of the UK, announced today at the EWEA Offshore 2011 exhibition that it has been awarded a contract for two of it’s new Wave Master class of wind farm support vessels. The new order was placed by North Sea Logistics one of the UK’s […]

  • IKEA Ventures Into Offshore Wind

    14 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Ingka Group, the largest IKEA franchisee with 367 IKEA stores in 30 markets, has acquired a 25% stake in the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Ingka Group is part of a consortium which recently bought an 80% stake in Veja Mate Offshore Project GmbH, the owner and operator of the wind […]

  • Four Songa Offshore semi-subs named

    3 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has held a naming ceremony for four semi-submersible rigs, Hull No. 3031, 3032, 3034, 3035, ordered by the Norwegian-based Songa Offshore. Around 290 guests attended the naming ceremony held in H quay, at the Okpo shipyard, on October 24, including Frederik W. Mohn, Chairman of the Board […]

  • ESA Nods to Hywind Tampen State Aid

    11 March 2020
    Authorities & Government

    The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) has approved Norway’s state aid to the 88MW Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind project in the Norwegian North Sea. Norway, through the state enterprise Enova, has decided to grant NOK 2.3 billion (around EUR 212 million) to Equinor and its partners OMV, Petoro, Idemitsu, DEA, and Vår Energi to realize […]

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    2 March 2014

    Most popular articles of the week Feb. 24 – Mar. 2

  • Cosalt Offshore Wins Multi-million Pound UK and Norwegian Deals with Acergy

    19 January 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Cosalt Offshore, a provider of lifting, tooling and marine services to the oil and gas industry, has concluded agreements with Acergy to provide all lifting services it requires in the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. The two contracts are worth up to a total of £3million in the UK and Norway at […]

  • SapuraOMV’s Australian well comes up dry

    6 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    SapuraOMV has found no commercial hydrocarbons after drilling an exploration well located offshore Western Australia.

  • Poland’s Lotos Starts Drilling at Skagen Prospect, Offshore Norway

    11 November 2012

    The Polish energy company LOTOS Exploration & Production Norge has started the drilling of its first operated exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Exploration drilling on the Skagen oil prospect in production licence 498 in the North Sea began on 9 November. Located about 32 kilometres north-west of the Ula field, this 7/8-7 S […]

  • Fluxys and GASCADE highlight high offshore hydrogen infrastructure potential for Europe in a DNV study

    16 March 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Vision

    Infrastructure system operators GASCADE and Fluxys have highlighted the significant advantages of an offshore hydrogen backbone in the North and Baltic Seas in the ‘Specification of a European Offshore Hydrogen Backbone’ study commissioned to the classification society DNV. According to the companies, offshore hydrogen production is paramount to meet the substantial increase expected in European […]

  • DOF Subsea to Change Mooring Parts on Njord B and Norne Units (Norway)

    22 February 2013

    DOF Subsea Norway has secured a contract with Statoil Petroleum AS for Mooring Installation Services utilising the vessel Skandi Skolten. The scope of work is to change out mooring segments on the Njord B FSU and Norne FPSO installations in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea whilst these are in production. The offshore operations […]

  • Eidesvik Takes Delivery of ‘Seven Viking’ IMR Vessel (Norway)

    23 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    State-of-the-art IMR (Inspection, Maintenance and Repair) vessel of SX148 design ‘Seven Viking’ was delivered from Ulstein Verft to Eidesvik Seven today. The vessel will now head for Stavanger, where she will be named on Wednesday 30 January, before starting operations for Statoil in the North Sea. ‘Seven Viking’ is vessel number fourty with the well-known […]

  • USA: Apache to Release Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results Feb. 17

    3 February 2011

      Apache Corporation will release its fourth-quarter and full-year 2010 results prior to the opening of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, Feb. 17, followed by a conference call to discuss its results at 1 p.m. Central time. Apache Corporation is an oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United […]

  • HMC Installs Jacky Platform at Short Notice

    13 January 2009

    At very short notice Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) successfully installed the Jacky unmanned platform for Ithaca Energy Ltd in the Inner Moray Firth area of the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea. HMC used its Semi Submersible Crane Vessel (SSCV) Hermod for the installation which had been undergoing maintenance in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Within […]

  • UK: Encore Oil Announces 2nd Successful Cladhan Appraisal & Update on Catcher Operations

    4 October 2010
    Project & Tenders

    EnCore Oil plc  announces initial results of the second side-track on UK Northern North Sea Block 210/29a which contains the Cladhan discovery. Well 210/29a-4Y, the second side-track to be drilled on the Cladhan discovery, was drilled to a total measured depth of 11,530 feet, approximately 1km to the southeast of the original 2008 discovery well. […]

  • Statoil suspends Songa’s semi-sub rig

    21 June 2016
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Offshore drilling contractor Songa Offshore has informed that its client Statoil will suspend the contract for the semi-submersible rig Songa Delta after the current well, Slemmestad, in the North Sea. Songa informed on Tuesday that from end of June 2016, the rig will go on 75% suspension rate of $277,000 per day. The rig’s current […]

  • Enpro Subsea moves into new UK headquarters

    24 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Oil and gas production optimization specialist, Enpro Subsea, has moved into its new UK headquarters.

  • This field started production exactly 25 years ago

    26 December 2014
    Exploration & Production

    Twenty five years ago, on December 26th 1989, the first field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf developed using a floating production unit produced its first oil.

  • Norway: Cuts in Production Possible Due to Storm, Statoil Says

    24 November 2011

    Norway’s Statoil stated that cuts or shutdowns in offshore production are possible over the upcoming weekend due to a big storm that is approaching the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Statoil’s spokesperson Ola Anders Skauby, said to Reuters that the company is evaluating its options and is considering reducing some drilling and production activities, but no firm […]