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  • Report: ConocoPhillips hires AHTS quartet for ‘Safe Caledonia’ move

    5 April 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Oil major ConocoPhillips has reportedly hired four anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels to move Prosafe’s Safe Caledonia flotel.

  • EU Supports Rotterdam-Gothenburg LNG Initiative

    17 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    The LNG Rotterdam-Gothenburg project has been acknowledged by the European Commission as a priority project for European transport infrastructure development. The Commission grants 34 million euro (SEK 305 million) to develop small-scale infrastructure for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an efficient and cleaner alternative for fuel oil and diesel in the North and Baltic Sea […]

  • Apache Restarts GoM Production Following Hurricane Isaac (USA)

    3 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Apache Corporation reported that its Gulf of Mexico production facilities are back online following suspended operations due to Hurricane Isaac. Also, production from North Sea assets has recovered following maintenance activities completed during the third quarter. As the company enters its fourth quarter reporting period, worldwide production is at an all-time high of approximately 800,000 […]

  • Norway: Statoil Gives Vilje Operatorship to Marathon Oil

    16 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil transfers operatorship of the Vilje field in the North Sea to Marathon Oil Norge. The agreement does not involve any change of stakes in the production licence (PL 036D). “Statoil is interested in good area solutions. We therefore find it natural that Marathon, as the biggest operator in the area, gets to optimise the […]

  • Hydrohammer S-4000 Installs First Monopiles

    30 March 2016
    Technology

    The S-4000 Hydrohammer pile-driving system installed its first monopiles at an offshore wind farm in the North Sea, IHC IQIP, a business unit of Royal IHC which recently launched the system, reports. The fully operational S-4000 unit was delivered to DEME Group’s offshore marine engineering division GeoSea for the Nordsee One offshore wind farm project in the German North […]

  • Marathon Oil Awards Brae Engineering Contract to Ingen

    7 December 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Ingen Ideas, an Amec Foster Wheeler company, has landed a five-year multi-discipline engineering contract, worth approximately £8 million ($12 million) with Marathon Oil. The contract started in October 2015. It covers Marathon Oil’s Brae Complex in the North Sea and it has potential for two further five-year extensions. It covers subsea and topsides, including onshore operations support, projects and […]

  • Offshore safety regulator focuses on Johan Sverdrup Phase 2

    15 June 2017

    Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has carried out an audit of Statoil’s follow-up of improvement processes during Phase 2 of the Johan Sverdrup development in the North Sea. The PSA said on Thursday that it carried out the audit on March 9, and April 6 and 24. The audit focused on […]

  • Olympic Subsea Secures Vessel Work in Renewables Market

    24 May 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Olympic Subsea has entered into an agreement with Adwen GmbH, a subsidiary of Siemens Gamesa, for the multipurpose offshore vessel Olympic Orion. The contract period is firm for six months with further options, and it is expected to start in Q2 2019. Olympic Orion is equipped with gangway system, 100 ton crane and accommodation module […]

  • Bard Offshore 1 Wind Farm Remains Out of Operation

    23 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Storage

    Bard Offshore 1, a 400 MW German offshore wind farm, will not be operational until further notice, informs the Spiegel. At the beginning of the year, there were frequent technical problems with the converter substation. In late March, a smoldering fire occurred on the substation and caused preliminary failure of the system. Recommissioning was planned […]

  • Equinor ready to begin drilling work with Transocean rig

    29 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Equinor has received consent to use one of Transocean’s semi-submersible rigs for production drilling at a field in the North Sea off Norway.

  • ConocoPhillips Gets Drilling Permit for Exploration Near Ekofisk, Offshore Norway

    18 February 2011
    Business & Finance

      ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS has received consent to conduct exploration drilling of well 7/11-12 in the North Sea with the mobile facility Mærsk Gallant. The well will be drilled in production licence 301 CS, approx. 65 kilometres north-northwest of Ekofisk. The well has the coordinates N 57° 01’ 0.716”, E 02° 35’ 30.433”. The water […]

  • Green light for drilling ops that may bring more gas to Denmark’s largest natural gas hub

    12 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    A FID has been taken to drill a well in the Harald East area, enabling any discovered gas to be exported through the Tyra facilities.

  • Berg Propulsion optimizes low-carbon performance for NCL feeder ship duo

    2 June 2025
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    NCL Nordland, the second of two 1,300 TEU dual-fuel methanol boxships owned by Norway’s MPC Container Ships (MPCC), has entered service weeks after sistership Vestland verified that its propulsion package optimizes efficiency regardless of energy source.

  • Mystery client eyes Prosafe vessel for project offshore Australia

    31 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Norway’s Prosafe has received a conditional letter of intent (CLoI) for one of its vessels to support a project off Western Australia.

  • Germany’s first floating LNG terminal ready to welcome first FSRU in mid-December

    16 November 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics

    Construction of Germany’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) terminal at the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven has been completed as the country zeroes in on securing supplies and cutting dependence on Russian gas. The port infrastructure for the first LNG jetty was completed on 15 November after mere 194 days, Niedersachsen Ports (NPorts) confirmed […]

  • Ithaca Gets New COO

    23 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Ithaca Energy Inc. announced the appointment of Roy Buchan as Chief Operations Officer, starting 5 January 2015. Mr Buchan has over 30 years of operational experience in the oil and gas industry. He has held various technical and senior management positions in the North Sea and internationally for Royal Dutch Shell plc and was previously […]

  • Apache Bacchus Field Pays Out, Official Says (UK)

    1 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Apache Corporation said today that the third well in the Bacchus Field in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea has pushed field production past 17,600 barrels of oil per day. Apache has a 50 percent interest in the field. The Bacchus B-1 development well, which commenced production in July, currently is producing 9,400 […]

  • DNV GL Secures Mariner Field Contract (UK)

    4 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    DNV GL UK has secured the third party ICP (Independent Competent Person) multi-million GBP contract, related to compliance with UK Offshore Regulations for the Statoil Mariner project. The award is the culmination of two years’ of project FEED support, assisting Statoil in developing Performance Standards and the Written Scheme of Examination (WSE) under the UK […]

  • Maersk Oil Awards Atkins with Engineering Support Contract

    23 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Atkins has won an engineering support contract covering three of Maersk Oil’s UK assets in the North Sea. The Gryphon FPSO, Global Producer III FPSO and Janice FPU are planned for major offshore inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) works this year, in addition to field expansion works. Maersk has committed to this plan by contracting […]

  • WATCH: Valemon Field Opened

    16 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The following video shows petroleum and energy minister Tord Lien opening the Valemon gas and condensate field in the North Sea today. According to Statoil, expected recoverable reserves from the field are 192 million barrels of oil equivalent. “Valemon is one of several new projects on the Norwegian continental shelf that contribute to value creation, […]

  • Well-Safe Adds Director of Well Abandonment

    26 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    Well-Safe Solutions has added Matt Jenkins as a director of well abandonment to its growing list of decommissioning experts. Matt Jenkins has joined Well-Safe from Conoco. As director of well abandonment at Well-Safe, Jenkins will lead the technical team to design safe and efficient well P&A operations for clients. Phil Milton, CEO of Well-Safe, said: “With […]

  • Helix Cuts Q2 Loss

    24 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Offshore services player Helix Energy Solutions has narrowed its loss in the second quarter of 2017 backed by increased activity of its well intervention business. On revenue increase of approximately 40 percent year-over-year, the Houston-based well intervention and robotics specialist narrowed its net loss to $6.4 million, or 4 cents per diluted share, against $10.7 […]

  • New Member Joins Wood Group European Team

    16 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    Wood Group has appointed Alan Johnstone as president of its Asset Life Cycle Solutions business in Europe. Joining Wood Group from his position as Amec Foster Wheeler’s managing director for upstream asset solutions, Alan brings almost three decades of North Sea, Southern North Sea and Caspian oil & gas experience. A long-standing member of Step […]

  • McDermott Starts Tyra Redevelopment Fabrication

    16 October 2018
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    McDermott International has held a first steel-cutting ceremony at its fabrication yard in Batam, Indonesia, to mark the start of fabrication for the Tyra Redevelopment project. “As the project continues to progress with the completion of engineering, we are moving ahead with fabrication in full compliance with the stringent technical requirements for the North Sea […]

  • World’s two largest pipelay vessels meet in Rotterdam

    20 April 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Two giant pipelay vessels owned by offshore contractor Allseas are now, for the first time ever, both in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.