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  • AET Gets Statoil Contract, Norway

    17 September 2012

    AET, a leading global owner and operator of a fleet of 82 petroleum tankers, has agreed to enter into a long-term contract with Norwegian energy giant Statoil ASA to operate two specialists DP2-type shuttle tankers. The vessels will be operated through a joint venture company, AET Sea Shuttle AS, formed between AET and leading offshore […]

  • Premier finds no oil in Myrhauk well (Norway)

    3 September 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Premier Oil has found no oil in well 3/7-10 S, in Myrhauk prospect in the Norwegian North Sea. The well located about 45 kilometres northeast of the Valhall field was drilled with Maersk Guardian rig. Premier said that the well encountered approximately 110 metres of good reservoir quality Middle Jurassic sands, but those were water […]

  • GL Garrad Hassan Installs Met Mast for Celtic Array Project in Irish Sea

    22 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Centrica has awarded a contract to GL Garrad Hassan, the renewable energy consulting business of the GL Group, for the design, supply, installation and operation of an offshore meteorological mast system for their Celtic Array project in the Irish Sea. Located 15km north of Anglesey, the system includes a meteorological mast, power supply system, navigational […]

  • Statoil Receives Consent for Transocean Leader Ops at Mikkel Field

    2 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has received consent to use the Transocean Leader rig at the Mikkel field. The consent relates to permanent plugback of well 6407/6-5 in the Norwegian Sea. Water depth at the site is 225 metres. The operation is scheduled to start on 13 April 2013, with a duration until 1 May 2013. Transocean Leader is […]

  • Scottish supply chain ‘set to benefit’ from new decom fund

    8 February 2017

    Scottish government has launched a new £5 million ($6.2M) fund that will provide opportunities for the supply chain in the country to benefit from the decommissioning of the North Sea infrastructure. The Decommissioning Challenge Fund (DCF) will support infrastructure upgrades and innovation in salvage and transport methods at Scotland’s ports and harbors. It will also encourage […]

  • Magseis reveals more on seismic deal

    15 December 2015

    Magseis, a Norwegian seismic survey company, in November said it had secured a letter of award for a project outside the North Sea region with an undisclosed client.  On Tuesday, December 15, the company revealed both, the name of the client and the location of the project. Client – Petronas; Location – Malaysia. Magseis said that […]

  • UK DECC Approves Breagh Gas Field Development Plan

    25 July 2011
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Sterling Resources Ltd. (“Sterling” or the “Company”) announces that the Field Development Plan (“FDP”) for the Breagh gas field has received the unconditional approval of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (“DECC”). FDP approval from DECC was formally granted at a ceremony that took place at RWE Dea UK’s London office earlier today, […]

  • UK: Spirit Energy taking over Babbage field operatorship

    6 July 2018

    Spirit Energy has reached an agreement with its partners in the Babbage field in the Southern North Sea to take on operatorship of the license, where it holds a 13% interest

  • Subsea 7 lands more work from Aker BP

    15 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    Subsea 7 has been awarded contracts by Aker BP for the Skogul and the Valhall Flank West projects in the Norwegian North Sea.

  • KCA Deutag: 500 jobs at risk

    12 February 2015
    Equipment

    Headcounts keep reducing in the oilfield services sector. This time, it is KCA Deutag. The company, a provider of drilling and engineering services, plans to lay off up to five hundred workers, 230 of which in the UK North Sea sector. In a statement sent to Offshore Energy Today, KCA Deutag has explained the company is […]

  • Sentinel Marine to create 80 new jobs by ordering three new ERRVs

    7 January 2019

    Offshore support vessel specialist Sentinel Marine will create 80 new jobs by adding three multi-role ships to its fleet.

  • Atkins to provide structural integrity management services to Talisman Sinopec

    5 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Atkins has been awarded a five-year contract for the provision of structural integrity management services under a new framework agreement with oil and gas operator, Talisman Sinopec Energy UK Limited (TSEUK). In line with TSEUK’s operational strategy to drive greater efficiency, the five-year contract elevates the previous contracts to a Tier One supplier, building on […]

  • UK operator facing investigation into license breach

    14 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    UK regulator North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has launched an investigation into an operator suspected of breaching one of its license conditions. The investigation will look into whether the licensee conducted a well test without consent and failed to provide timely notification of the completion. Depending on the results of the investigation, a fine of […]

  • Premier Oil shares resume trading on London Stock Exchange

    1 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Shares in UK-listed Premier Oil have now resumed trading on the London Stock Exchange after being suspended in January ahead of acquisition announcement of E.ON’s North Sea assets.  On January 13, 2016, Premier announced that it had agreed to acquire the whole of E.ON’s UK North Sea assets for a net consideration of $120 million plus […]

  • Gallery: Statoil in official launch of Valemon

    16 April 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has reported that petroleum and energy minister Tord Lien is opening the Valemon gas and condensate field in the North Sea today. The field was brought on stream on January 3, 2015. Expected recoverable reserves from the field are 192 million barrels of oil equivalent. “Valemon is one of several new projects on the Norwegian […]

  • Statoil to use modular drilling rig for new production well at Heimdal

    22 September 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use a modular drilling rig (MDR) to drill a new production well at Heimdal gas field in the North Sea. Statoil is the operator of the Heimdal field, located around 212 kilometres north-west of Stavanger. Production on the field began in December 1985. An MDR […]

  • Atlantic Petroleum sells Pegasus gas discovery stake

    7 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Atlantic Petroleum, an independent oil company based in Faroe Islands, has decided to sell its share in the Pegasus gas discovery in the UK North Sea. The company has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Third Energy Offshore Limited for the sale of Atlantic Petroleum’s interests in P1724 (UK Block 43/13b which contains the Pegasus […]

  • Aker Solutions to Conduct Early Phase Studies for Statoil’s Major Discoveries (Norway)

    4 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has awarded Aker Solutions early phase studies for all their recent major discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf; the Skrugard and Havis fields in the Barents Sea and the Johan Sverdrup discovery in the North Sea. Contract values are undisclosed. The past year has been unique, with Johan Sverdrup (formerly named Aldous/Avaldsnes) as the […]

  • Norway: Aker Solutions Conducts Early Phase Studies for Statoil’s Recent Discoveries

    4 June 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Statoil has awarded Aker Solutions early phase studies for all their recent major discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf; the Skrugard and Havis fields in the Barents Sea and the Johan Sverdrup discovery in the North Sea. Contract values are undisclosed. The past year has been unique, with Johan Sverdrup (formerly named Aldous/Avaldsnes) as the […]

  • GALLERY: World’s largest semi-sub crane vessel lifts Equinor’s Snorre module

    6 April 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    The world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel, Heerema’s Sleipnir, has lifted a module for Equinor’s Snorre A platform from the quayside at Aibel’s yard in Haugesund, Norway, ahead of its transportation and installation in the North Sea off Norway. 

  • VIDEO: Anthem of the Seas Swirls Around

    27 February 2015

    The following video presents you with the 168.600-gt cruise ship Anthem of the Seas, one of the largest cruise ships in the world, being turned around after its float out at Meyer Werft’s Papenburg shipyard on February 21st, 2015. After this giant beauty turned around, the shipyard workers mounted the North Star observation toweer on […]

  • Next Geosolutions adds Pacific Worker

    29 September 2020
    Vessels

    UK-based Next Geosolutions has recently taken delivery of its new multi-purpose subsea vessel in Dover, UK. The Pacific Worker, formerly Seabed Worker, will now become NG Worker and operate under Italian flag. The NG Worker is an 88.8-metre LOA Norwegian-built high specification and SPS-Code certified vessel. It features an ROV hangar and a moonpool as […]

  • China: COSCO Wins Semi-Sub Accommodation Vessel Contract

    2 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation announced that COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned subsidiary, COSCO Shipyard Group Co. Ltd., has secured a contract valued over USD200 million from COTEMAR S.A. De C.V., a company incorporated in Mexico, to build one (1) Harsh Environment Semi Submersible Accommodation Vessel. […]

  • Lundin to Use Transocean Winner for Drilling in PL 338 (Norway)

    4 December 2012

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has granted approval to Lundin Petroleum for exploration drilling of well 16/1-17 with the Transocean Winner semi-submersible rig. Well 16/1-17 is located in the southern part of the North Sea, in a prospect east of the Edvard Grieg field in production licence PL 338, operated by Lundin. The other licensees […]

  • Sea Challenger carrying one of last turbine sets to Borssele 1 & 2

    25 August 2020
    Vessels

    Sea Challenger has left the port of Esbjerg with one of the last batches of turbines for the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm. DEME’s vessel is working in tandem with its sister vessel Sea Installer on the installation of 94 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbines at the site in the Dutch part of […]