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  • UK: Ithaca Energy Agrees to Take Over Carna Operatorship

    26 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Ithaca Energy Inc. has agreed to take over operatorship and increase its working interest in the Carna discovery, located in the Southern Gas Basin of the UK North Sea. The transaction with Centrica North Sea Gas Limite increases the Company’s working interest in the Carna discovery to a material level from 16% to 32%. The […]

  • Site surveys to begin for Flotation Energy’s two offshore wind projects

    13 July 2023
    Business Developments & Projects

    Site investigations are about to start at two locations in Scotland and the UK where Flotation Energy and its project partners plan to build the 480 MW Morecambe and the 1.4 GW Cenos offshore wind farms. At the Morecambe site, located about 30 kilometres from the Lancashire coast, a deep-sea geotechnical survey is scheduled to […]

  • Wintershall to Use Island Offshore Vessels on Vega Field

    7 April 2016

    Wintershall Norge AS has received consent to use the mobile drilling facilities Island Frontier and Island Wellserver for intervention work on the Vega field. The two vessels provide light well intervention services and associated work, construction work, subsea installation work, securing of wells, IMR work, supply duties. Vega lies due north of the Fram field in […]

  • Norway doubles oil and gas resources estimate for Barents Sea

    26 April 2017

    The undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Barents Sea are twice as large as previously assumed, according to new calculations by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), Norway’s petroleum resources regulator.  The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has recently mapped the eastern part of the northern Barents Sea – an area of about 170,000 square kilometers, 10,000 square […]

  • Spirit of Adventure wraps up conveyance down the narrow River Ems

    31 August 2020
    Vessels

    The cruise ship Spirit of Adventure, being built by German shipbuilder Meyer Werft for the British shipping company Saga Cruises, left Papenburg on Sunday, August 30, 2020 and was transferred to Emden. The popular conveyance of the ship is a major milestone in a ship’s construction and, for the Spirit of Adventure, comes just a […]

  • Equinor testing new LNG-powered shuttle tankers

    9 June 2020
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Norwegian energy giant Equinor is testing two newbuild liquefied natural gas-powered shuttle tankers it chartered for operations in the North Sea. The first tanker Eagle Blane is owned by Malaysian shipowner AET, while the second vessel Rainbow Spirit belongs to Altera. Eagle Blane recently conducted its first LNG bunkering in the port of Rotterdam prior […]

  • Trelleborg Nets Johan Sverdrup Deal

    3 July 2017
    Equipment

    Trelleborg’s engineered products operation has been awarded a contract for the supply of elastomeric bearings for Statoil’s Johan Sverdrup oil field, offshore Norway. Located on the Utsira Height in the North Sea, 160 kilometers west of Stavanger, the Johan Sverdup oil field will be operated by electrical power generated onshore, significantly reducing offshore emissions of climate […]

  • Sparrows Gears Towards Global Market

    10 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Sparrows has announced annual results which show a 12% increase in turnover and almost 25% rise in profits. The Aberdeen head-quartered company, which provides engineered products and services to the global oil and gas industry primarily in offshore lifting and mechanical handling, has also created over 100 jobs with total employment rising from 1,751 at the […]

  • FPSO Petrojarl Foinaven goes to M.A.R.S.

    19 October 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    M.A.R.S. has been awarded a major EU Green Recycling contract for Teekay’s Petrojarl Foinaven FPSO.

  • More work for KCA Deutag on two offshore platforms in Angola

    7 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    KCA Deutag has secured a contract extension with a total value of $60 million for the provision of drilling and maintenance services on two offshore platforms in Angola.

  • Cost reductions lift Prosafe 1Q numbers. Flotel demand to pick up from 2019

    4 May 2018
    Exploration & Production

    World’s largest offshore accommodation rig supplier Prosafe turned profitable in the first quarter of 2018, after posting a loss in the corresponding period of 2017.

  • GALLERY: First steel cut for Aker BP’s new unmanned platform

    13 April 2018
    Project & Tenders

     Norwegian engineering and construction firm Kvaerner has cut first steel for Aker BP’s Valhall Flank West project development in the North Sea. The cutting of the first steel for the Valhall Flank West platform deck marked the beginning of construction, which will take place at Kvaerner’s Verdal yard in Norway. Norwegian oil company Aker […]

  • Trapoil to Acquire 45 Pct Interest in Orchid Oil Discovery from Summit, UK

    7 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Trapoil, the independent oil and gas exploration and appraisal company focused on the UK Continental Shelf (“UKCS”) region of the North Sea, announces that it has entered into non-binding heads of terms potentially to acquire an additional 45 per cent working interest in Licence P 1556, Block 29/1c containing the Orchid oil discovery (the “Proposed […]

  • Sterling Resources welcomes new Breagh partner

    13 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Sterling Resources, a Canadian-listed energy company with assets in the UK North Sea, has welcomed Ineos’ acquisition of the North Sea gas field from Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s LetterOne group. The assets include an operated 70 percent interest in the producing Breagh field, of which Sterling holds the remaining 30 percent. The purchase by Ineos brings […]

  • PHOTO: BP’s new FPSO coming together

    13 July 2015
    Project & Tenders

      British oil giant BP has, through social media, revealed a photograph of its new Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The 270 metres long, 52 meters wide FPSO, to be named Glen Lyon, is currently under construction at a Hyundai Heavy Industry shipyard in South Korea. Once completed, the vessel will be deployed in the UK […]

  • Blue Prosper PSV Hired by Apache (UK)

    14 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    The platform supply vessel Blue Prosper of PX121 design delivered by ULSTEIN in September has won a long-term contract with Apache for work in the North Sea. Her sister vessel, Blue Fighter, has renewed her contract with Apache. Blue Prosper was delivered from Ulstein Verft to Blue Ship Invest on 6 September, and entered the […]

  • IOG appoints Non-Executive Director

    12 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Independent Oil and Gas plc, the North Sea focused Oil and Gas Company, has announced that Paul Murray is joining the board, effective immediately. Murray began his career as a Petroleum Engineer with Mobil North Sea and joined Lasmo Plc in 1988 where he worked in a variety of commercial roles before becoming Group Finance […]

  • Norway: Statoil Exercises Options for Surface Management Services with AGR

    9 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has exercised options in the current framework agreement with AGR Field Operations for surface management services. The extension has an estimated total value of NOK 60 million over a period of 12 months. This contract has an estimated value of 180 million including remaining options. AGR Field Operations will provide Surface Management services including […]

  • China: CIMC Raffles, COSL Sign Contract for Construction of New Semi-Submersible Rig

    1 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Yantai CIMC Raffles and COSL Drilling Europe (CDE) today signed the contract for deepwater semi-submersible platform, the COSLPROSPECTOR, in Beijing. The COSLPROSPECTOR is a DP3 vessel with an operating depth of 1,500 metres, a drilling depth of 7,600 metres and a designed operating temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius. Classed by DNV with basic design […]

  • Antrim adds to Causeway

    7 July 2008

    Further development drilling on the UK Northern North Sea Causeway oil discovery has been concluded by operator Antrim Energy with the company indicating that it has found a significant oil column and a new oil accumulation in one the field formations. Antrim said that the 211/23d-18 well which was drilled 18.29 m (60 ft) below […]

  • MAN’s First Hermetically-Sealed Compressor for an Offshore Platform

    16 January 2014

    MAN Diesel & Turbo in Zurich has won a contract for a HOFIM™ compressor (High-Speed, Oil-Free, Integrated Motor). This is a significant business milestone: It is MAN’s first hermetically-sealed compressor being installed on an offshore production platform – Ivar Aasen in the North Sea, run by Det norske oljeselskap ASA. MAN’s Business Unit Oil & […]

  • Full Power at Humber Gateway; Completion 2 Months ahead of Schedule

    5 June 2015

    With the final turbine at Humber Gateway recently becoming operational, the entire offshore wind farm is now generating electricity. This major project in the UK’s North Sea is in the final phase of construction and will be completed this summer, two months ahead of schedule, E.ON reported. Humber Gateway, which is located eight kilometers off […]

  • Top News of the Week May 6 – 12, 2013

    12 May 2013

    Denmark: Dong Saves Three Days Per Installed Cable Each time, a cable is installed between wind turbines at an offshore wind farm, time spent offshore can be reduced by approximately three days. A new cable laying concept from DONG Energy points the way to reducing costs.  First Wind Turbine Installed at Riffgat Offshore Wind Farm […]

  • Offshore Wind Keeps Fugro Busy

    25 February 2019
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Fugro has recently secured several offshore wind-related contract awards in the USA and in the Netherlands. The company has been selected to carry out geotechnical site investigations at the Hollandse Kust West offshore wind zone in the Dutch North Sea. The 1.4GW Hollandse Kust West is one of the three wind farm zones identified in the Offshore Wind Energy […]

  • Pulse hired to support Total’s drilling at Martin Linge

    22 August 2014
    Equipment

    Pulse Structural Monitoring (Pulse), an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract with Total E&P Norge AS to provide a real time integrity monitoring system, to measure platform displacement during drilling operations. The two-year contract, with a two-year extension option, will support Total’s development drilling activities on the Martin Linge field in the Norwegian North […]