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  • Cosco Orders Cranes for Axis Offshore Accommodation Rig

    20 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    China’s COSCO Qidong Offshore co has ordered two offshore cranes from TTS Group, to be installed on board a semi submersible accommodation rig. The value of the order is estimated at approximately NOK 50 million (USD 8.2 million). The accommodation rig  is ordered by Axis Offshore to target the strong demand for modern units to operate […]

  • Farstad expands fleet with new AHTS vessel

    10 February 2014

    Norwegian offshore shipping player Farstad Shipping has expanded its fleet with a new Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessel. The Far Sigma anchor handler has today, Monday, February 10, been delivered from Vard Langsten to Farstad Supply AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Farstad Shipping ASA. The 87,4m long vessel will trade the spot market in the North Sea. In April […]

  • Statoil Spuds Tastaveden Well

    13 January 2014

    Petrolia Norway AS, a fully owned subsidiary of Petrolia SE, announces that drilling of Well 25/9-4 Tastaveden in PL 628 has started.   The well, which is located approximately 35 km northeast of the Grane Field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea, will test a prospect adjacent to the Utsira High. Well 25/9-4 Tastaveden will be drilled […]

  • Steaming ahead

    28 May 2009

    Alstom and E.ON Benelux have agreed on a contract to provide a steam turbine unit for the new fossil-fuel power plant at Maasvlakte power station in the Netherlands. The new power plant, located near the North Sea and the Rotterdam harbour, will be able to co-fire biomass and is being designed for retrofitting with carbon […]

  • ERSG Nets East Anglia One Contract

    8 March 2018
    Human Capital, Project & Tenders

    ERSG has won a contract by ScottishPower Renewables to provide quality and inspection services for the East Anglia One offshore wind farm. 

  • COSL Drilling hands out multi-million assignment to Odfjell Technology

    17 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The UK’s Odfjell Technology has inked a long-term deal for the provision of tubular running services with COSL Drilling Europe.

  • Spectrum Closes Acquisition of Carmot Companies (Norway)

    5 March 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Spectrum announced that it’s acquisition of Carmot Seismic AS and Carmot Processing AS has now been closed with no changes to the agreed compensation. The acquisition establishes a significant footprint for Spectrum on the Norwegian Continental Shelf adding 3D seismic data cubes covering approximately 125,000 square kilometers of the Norwegian Continental Shelf and more than […]

  • New tool to boost infrastructure repurposing for energy transition projects

    21 June 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has developed a new screening tool to help maximise the repurposing of oil and gas infrastructure for energy transition projects. It is believed that repurposing can make a huge contribution to the UK’s drive to net-zero, potentially generating multibillion-pound savings across carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen schemes which […]

  • Update: Alpha Petroleum takes Stena Spey rig on a long-term deal

    4 December 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling specialist Stena Drilling has reportedly secured a year and a half long contract for its Stena Spey semi-submersible drilling rig.

  • Saipem scores €520 million gig on Eni’s Irish Sea CCS project

    28 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Italy’s energy major Eni has handed out a contract to compatriot engineering, drilling, and construction services giant Saipem for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in northern England.

  • Vattenfall Seeks Contractors for Horns Rev 3 OWF Works

    31 January 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Vattenfall plans to participate in Danish Energy Agency (DEA) led call for bids for the concession of Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm located in a shallow water area of the eastern North Sea. Vattenfall has invited contractors to submit Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the transport of wind turbine generators (WTGs) from the port […]

  • NOC Contracts Cellula for STEMM-CCS Project

    25 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Cellula Robotics has been awarded a contract from the National Oceanography Center (NOC) in the UK. The contract covers the design, build, testing and offshore support of a tool to place a seven meter curved pipe into the seabed. This tool will be used to enable the controlled injection of CO2 at an instrumented test […]

  • Aker BP Gets Approval to Connect Oda to Ula Field

    21 February 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has granted Aker BP consent to connect the Oda field to the Ula field. The Oda field, previously named Butch, is located in the North Sea licence PL 405. The field, operated by Centrica, is to be developed as a subsea facility tied back to the Ula field, where Aker BP is […]

  • PHOTO: Norway’s oil minister officially opens Ivar Aasen field

    13 February 2017
    Project & Tenders

      Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Søviknes officially opened the Ivar Aasen field in the North Sea on Monday, February 13.  Oil production from the Aker BP-operated field started on December 24, 2016, four years after the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) was submitted. The total cost of the project was in […]

  • Jack-up duo reborn: Petrodec unveils fused platform at Damen’s shipyard

    22 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Damen Shiprepair, part of the Dutch shipbuilding giant Damen Shipyards Group, has hosted a naming ceremony for a self-elevating heavy lift jack-up, being repurposed from two former units by decommissioning services specialist Petrodec, at its yard in Rotterdam. 

  • Equinor improves Vigdis recovery by 16 million barrels

    6 August 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Technology

    A pump on the seabed gives the Equinor-operated Vigdis field in the North Sea a boost that increases production by around 16 million barrels.

  • Cairn to spud three wells as operator in UK & Norway in 3Q 2019

    22 January 2019

    Cairn Energy plans to drill a total of four exploration wells across a variety of play types in the UK and Norway during 2019.

  • Statoil’s Troll to reach milestone of 1.5 bln barrels of oil in May

    8 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    During the last five years Statoil and its partners have invested as much as NOK 46 billion on the Troll field, which came on stream in 1995. The investment level will remain high for many years to come. Troll is the story of achieving the impossible. The oil proven in connection with the largest gas […]

  • Keppel FELS Delivers First Super A Class Jack-Up Rig to Discovery Offshore

    3 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Keppel FELS Limited has delivered its first KFELS Super A Class jackup rig to Discovery Offshore S.A., which is managed by Hercules Offshore. Named Discovery Triumph at a ceremony on Saturday, the first KFELS Super A Class jackup has been delivered 46 days ahead of schedule and with a perfect safety record. The ultra high-specification […]

  • Turbine No. 18 Rising at Hohe See

    8 May 2019

    Wind turbine number 18 is currently being installed on the 497MW Hohe See wind farm in the German North Sea, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier said. Brave Tern has just finished installing its twelfth turbine, and Blue Tern is currently installing its sixth unit. The Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbines are being loaded in sets of four […]

  • UK’s first CO2 injection nears reality as final preparations are underway (Video)

    23 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Collaboration, Environment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Storage, Transition, Vision

    Perenco UK and Carbon Catalyst Limited are completing the final preparations for the CO2 injection test at a carbon capture and storage (CCS) license in the North Sea that encompasses what is seen as the UK’s largest depleted gas field. The partners secured a license to progress the Poseidon CCS project at the Leman gas fields in the UK […]

  • Oil & Gas safety awards in UK. Who won?

    30 April 2015

    The winners of awards celebrating the people and companies striving to ensure North Sea oil and gas operations are as safe as they can be were named at a lunchtime awards ceremony in Aberdeen yesterday, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. It was the fifth UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards – jointly organised by Oil & […]

  • Statoil spuds Johan Sverdrup appraisal well

    4 March 2014

    Statoil has begun drilling of the appraisal well 16/2-19 in PL265 on the Johan Sverdrup discovery, located in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

  • France: Navalu Launches SeaFox

    25 September 2013

    French work boat builder Navalu launched the SeaFox, an offshore wind farm service catamaran last Wednesday, 18 September 2013. This vessel, with a total length of 24 meters and width of 9.90 meters, was designed to work on offshore wind farms in the North Sea. Built for Enviroserve, shipowner based in Lowestoft (Suffolk), the vessel […]

  • Green light to Aker BP for Skogul field startup

    24 February 2020
    Project & Tenders

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted its consent for the start-up of the Aker BP-operated Skogul field located in the North Sea offshore Norway.