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  • Parkmead bags three UKCS licences

    31 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Parkmead, the UK and Netherlands focused independent oil and gas group, has been provisionally awarded three new licences covering three offshore blocks in the UK 28th Licensing Round.  These newly awarded licences are part of the second tranche of 28th Round awards. This latest award follows Parkmead’s award of six licences covering nine offshore blocks […]

  • Germany Ports Awaiting Offshore Wind Boom

    29 November 2011

    As Germany prepares for a major expansion of offshore wind to replace nuclear power, companies like French giant Areva and US-based General Electric (GE) have flocked to the German coastlines. With wind parks planned for both the North Sea and Baltic Sea, the buildup can be felt in the country’s seaports and hinterlands. Germany Trade […]

  • Clock is ticking for Xcite Energy

    24 May 2016

    Xcite Energy, a UK-based oil and gas company, is in talks with creditors to try and renegotiate the terms of its $139.05 million bond ahead of debt maturity on June 30, 2016. The company says its current and forecast cash position is insufficient to repay the bond capital in full by the June 30 deadline, […]

  • UK: Grimsby’s Offshore Wind Potential Presented to National Audience

    20 March 2012

    GRIMSBY’S potential as a centre for the multi-billion pound offshore wind industry has been highlighted as part of national television coverage about the UK economy. Viewers of the BBC’s Breakfast programme were shown workers leaving the town’s docks on boats bound for offshore wind farm sites. During the broadcast, Sam Pick, business development director of […]

  • Largest Dutch Offshore Wind Farm to Generate 250.000MWh Extra Energy

    17 April 2012

    Gemini, the largest offshore wind farm in The Netherlands, located 55 kilometers above the island Schiermonnikoog in the North Sea, will generate an additional 250.000MWh annual green electricity. This is 10% more than was originally expected, and is sufficient energy to meet the consumption of approximately 75,000 extra households. This is the direct result of […]

  • Avantha Installs Amrumbank West Transformer Substation

    12 May 2014
    Storage

    Avantha Group Company CG installed its transformer substation at the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm. The renewable energy unit consists of 80 multi-megawatt wind turbines located 100 km off the German coast in the North Sea. The Amrumbank West offshore wind farm (which was completed along with CG’s consortium partners Fabricom GDF Suez, Iemants and […]

  • Lundin Makes ‘Potentially Significant’ Oil Discovery (Norway)

    8 April 2013

    Lundin Petroleum AB  has announced that the drilling of exploration well 16/4-6S on the Luno II prospect in the Norwegian part of the North Sea has resulted in a potentially significant oil discovery. The well is located in PL359 in the central North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The well will now […]

  • Hejre accommodation platform scheduled for delivery in 2015

    24 March 2014

    The Korean shipyard Shinhan Machinery is hard at work building the accommodation platform for DONG Energy’s new Hejre oil and gas field in the North Sea. The accommodation platform for Hejre will take approximately one year to construct and will be transported to the Hejre field once it is ready to be installed in the […]

  • Seal of Approval for Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s Emergency Procedure

    15 May 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    A trapped seal has put Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s emergency procedure to the test on a wind farm construction project in the German North Sea. It was a story with a happy ending both for the seal and the team from Fred. Olsen Windcarriers’ jack-up Brave Tern, after the distressed mammal was spotted, taking refuge in the jacking pin […]

  • VIDEO: Boskalis Part of Dolwin Gamma Project

    5 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. recently released a video about the installation of Dolwin Gamma platform in the German part of the North Sea. Dolwin Gamma, part of the 900MW DolWin3 offshore grid connection system, is a daughter platform to the DolWin alpha and will be connected to it via a fixed bridge. The platform converts the AC produced by […]

  • Trianel Borkum II Foundations Quarter-Way In

    31 July 2018

    Eight out of 32 monopile foundations have been installed on the Trianel Windpark Borkum II in the German North Sea, the project’s developers said.

  • Aker BP installs Hod topsides just 14 months after first steel

    10 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil company Aker BP has installed the Hod platform topsides in the North Sea, offshore Norway, just one year and two months after the first steel cut.

  • Neptune Energy fires up Gjøa P1 development

    23 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Operator Neptune Energy and its partners have started production from the Gjøa P1 development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

  • Marathon Announces Small Oil Discovery South of Alvheim Field Off Norway

    15 February 2011
    Business & Finance

      Marathon Petroleum Norge AS, operator of production licence 340 BS, has completed drilling of wildcat well 24/9-10 S and appraisal well 24/9-10 A. The wells were drilled about 30 kilometres south of the production ship on the Alvheim field in the mid-North Sea. The purpose of the wells was to prove and delimit oil […]

  • The Netherlands: Vos Prodect’s Cable Hang-off Systems for NSW

    1 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Vos Prodect Innovations B.V. has been contracted by Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW), for the supply of Cable Hang-off Systems for an offshore wind farm project in the North Sea. The second supply contract has been achieved by satisfying the technical and commercial requirements of the subject project. We would like to thank NSW for their […]

  • ConocoPhillips to Use Rowan Norway Jack-Up for Ekofisk Drilling

    9 January 2013

    ConocoPhillips will use the Rowan Norway jack-up rig to drill three new production wells on Ekofisk 2/4-B complex in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The PSA Norway has given its consent for the use of the rig which was recently granted an Acknowledgement of Compliance. ConocoPhillips will drill new production wells on Ekofisk […]

  • Photo: Bollsta Dolphin semi shows its face

    11 February 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Following several artistic impressions of the Bollsta Dolphin semi-submersble drilling rig, Fred. Olsen Energy, the owner, has finally revealed a photo of the rig. The harsh environment ultra-deepwater semi-submersible is currently under construction at the Hyundai Heavy Industries yard in South Korea. The rig was originally slated for delivery in the late first quarter of the […]

  • Norway: PetroMarker Holds a Vessel’s Open Day

    25 July 2010

    PetroMarker invited its customers to come and visit “Volstad Surveyor” at the end of her mobilization on July 19th, 2010. Despite a rather wet weather, a number of clients’ representatives came to Dusavik NorSea base to visit PetroMarker’s new vessel, the “Volstad Surveyor”. The visitors were able to appreciate the quality of the vessel and […]

  • All Set for APM Terminals Maasvlakte II Opening

    20 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The official opening ceremony of APM Terminals Maasvlakte II in Rotterdam, the Netherlands will be held on Friday, April 24, 2015 at 15:00 hrs.  APM Terminals newest port in the world will be the first fully automated facility with zero emissions from cargo handling equipment. Built on land reclaimed from the North Sea and with a price […]

  • DeepOcean Axes 90 Jobs

    7 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Norwegian subsea player DeepOcean is reportedly letting go up to 90 of its workers as it adjusts to lower activity levels. Switching its focus to renewables in the past few months hasn’t been enough to compensate the slowdown in the oil industry. It is yet unclear who should go, however, general manager of DeepOcean`s North […]

  • Allspeeds Webtool to Assist Flexlife in Decom Project

    23 March 2016
    Equipment

    Allspeeds has supplied an integrated guillotine cutter to Flexlife as a part of the North Sea platform decommissioning project. The application involves passing a hose though 2” pipework into a jacket leg that had previously been filled with a plugging material. This material is cleared using a corrosive gel breaker fluid. Once completed, the end of […]

  • Prins Hendrik Sand Dike VIDEO

    23 November 2018
    Business & Finance

     Jan De Nul was recently awarded one of the biggest dike reinforcement operations in the Netherlands. Between July 2018 and January 2019, the company’s TSHD Bartolomeu Dias will dredge 5.5 million m³ of sand for the new safety dune and connected nature area. The sand is being dredged in the North Sea and transported […]

  • Gazprom, Wintershall finalize asset swap

    2 October 2015

    Russian gas giant Gazprom, and Germany’s largest oil and gas producer Wintershall said they completed the previously announced asset swap. As a result of the deal, Gazprom increased its share in European gas trading and storage companies WINGAS, WIEH and WIEE to 100 percent as well as received a 50 percent stake in WINZ involved […]

  • New Crew Transfer Vessel Working at Meerwind Süd/Ost OWF

    16 June 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    A new vessel has been deployed at the Meerwind Süd/Ost offshore wind farm site. Namely, Seewind 1 is carrying out crew transfers from and to the offshore wind farm’s substation near Helgoland, North Sea, Germany. WindMW, a joint-venture between Blackstone Energy Partners and Windland Energieerzeugungs GmbH completed the construction of the wind farm and the […]

  • Photo Gallery: Umoe Mandal’s New Offshore Wind Vessel

    18 June 2015

    Yesterday, the Carbon Trust hosted the first UK demonstration of the Wave Craft vessel Umoe Ventus at Seawork International 2015 in Southampton. The new vessel, developed by Umoe Mandal with support from the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), is a surface effect ship (SES), using an air cushion to lift 80 percent of the vessel and ensuring that only a small part […]