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  • Pioneering Spirit Stinger Completed

    8 April 2016
    Equipment

    A 150-meter steel structure that weighs about 4,200 tonnes was recently loaded out at Vlissingen yard. The structure is a stinger, a frame that will hang behind the “world’s largest” vessel the Pioneering Spirit. The stinger is used to lead the pipe to the bottom of the sea during the installation phase. Smulders was responsible for the […]

  • Solstad Starts Negotiations with Lenders Over Liquidity Concerns

    22 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian owner and operator of offshore vessels Solstad Offshore has started negotiations with lenders to improve the overall liquidity situation prior to the North Sea winter season. According to the company, the winter season is expected to be challenging for the company’s liquidity position. Solstad Farstad has therefore decided to begin negotiations with lenders and other stakeholders […]

  • Video: Construction of DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm

    9 February 2015

    Vattenfall has recently published a video showing the construction of its DanTysk offshore wind farm, situated west of the island of Sylt and directly on the German-Danish border in the North Sea. In early December last year, the wind farm supplied the German electricity network with its first wind power. The DanTysk wind farm comprises 80 wind turbines in […]

  • Extended Waiting Times Expected at Kiel Canal

    4 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Ships transiting the Kiel Canal may be facing extended waiting times due to scheduled maintenance works at Brunsbüttel locks announced by the Kiel Canal authorities for the upcoming weeks. During daytime the Big Southern Lock will be closed due to diving and drilling works from 4th to 6th of November. Due to diving inspections the […]

  • Con4Mare Named Marine Warranty Surveyor at Merkur OWF

    27 February 2017

    GeoSea has appointed Con4Mare to provide marine warranty survey services for the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm (formerly known as MEG I), located 45km north of Borkum, Germany, in the North Sea.

  • Lundin CEO blames Shell, Bluewater for Brynhild delays

    6 August 2014

    After facing months of delays with the start up of the oil flow from the Brynhild oil field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea, Lundin CEO has put a blame on Shell and Bluewater.

  • Wintershall Gets Nod for Nova Development

    28 September 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved plans for the development and operation of the Wintershall’s Nova field. Wintershall and its partners will invest close to NOK 10 billion in the development project. Recoverable reserves on the field are estimated around 80 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), of which the majority is oil. […]

  • Reach Subsea to Deploy ‘The Surveyor’ ROV for Troll A Works

    14 January 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Together with its strategic partner within Offshore Survey, Marine Mætteknik (MMT) in Gothenburg, Reach has developed, and recently started production of, a new generation, innovative survey ROV, The “Surveyor” specially designed for pipeline inspection and seabed surveys. The new asset will be delivered during the summer 2014 and will be operated in close cooperation with […]

  • Canada: Talisman Energy Expects to Deliver Strong Production Growth in 2011

    11 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    Talisman Energy Inc.  announced its capital spending plans for 2011. The company expects 5-10% production growth this year. Cash spending on exploration and development is expected to be relatively unchanged at around US$4 billion, maintaining capital discipline in an uncertain commodity price environment. Through reshaping the portfolio in 2010, maintaining a balance between natural gas […]

  • LS Cable & System to Supply Submarine HVDC Cables for European Customers

    17 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    LS Cable & System will be the first cable maker in Korea to introduce the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cables to the European market. On April 15 the company announced that it would supply 24.5km of 285kV extra high voltage submarine cables and connectors to Energinet.dk, and 25.7km of 150kV alternating current extra high […]

  • Topaz Newbuild Secures Offshore Wind Charter

    3 January 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Topaz Energy and Marine has signed an agreement with an unnamed north European contractor to charter its newbuild subsea vessel, Topaz Tangaroa, for work on renewable energy projects, primarily in support of offshore wind farms in the southern North Sea. 

  • Aberdeen Harbour Filled with Offshore Support Vessels (UK)

    8 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Aberdeen Harbour has recorded significant increases in traffic in the first six months of the year, as activity within the energy sector generally and the North Sea in particular continues to rise. Continued growth in the oil and gas sector was reflected in the increase in support vessels that used the port over the first […]

  • Montrose BLP sails out from Heerema’s yard (Gallery)

    11 April 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Talisman Sinopec has informed that the new Montrose Bridge Linked Platform (BLP) topsides has sailed out from the Heerema Fabrication Group’s Zwijndrecht yard, 12 miles south of Rotterdam. The topside for the Montrose BLP was recently loaded on Heerema’s barge. Heerema Zwijndrecht started the fabrication in March 2013, and constructed the 10,500 tons topside within three years. The topside […]

  • EnQuest confirms Eagle as oil discovery

    1 July 2016
    Project & Tenders

    UK-based petroleum exploration and production company, EnQuest, has completed drilling of the Eagle exploration well in the UK North Sea and confirmed it as a discovery.  In the second quarter of 2016, EnQuest undertook the drilling of Eagle exploration well on a 100% working interest basis. Eagle was acquired along with EnQuest’s other interests in the […]

  • Borkum Riffgrund 2 OSS Topside Installed

    28 June 2018
    Storage

    The offshore substation topside for Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm has been installed at the site in the German North Sea.

  • Wintershall to operate on three new NCS licences

    21 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    In the current licensing round APA 2014, Germany’s Wintershall has been awarded eight new exploration licenses by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Wintershall will be operator on three of these licenses. Seven of the new licenses are located in the North Sea (two as operator) and one operated license in the Barents Sea. At […]

  • Centrica Spuds Butch East Well (Norway)

    30 December 2013

    Faroe Petroleum has announced the spudding of the Centrica operated Butch East exploration well 8/10-5S (Faroe 15%), the first of two back-to back-wells in Licence PL405/PL405B. Butch East, which is adjacent to the Company’s 2011 Butch discovery, is situated in approximately 65 metres water depth in the Norwegian North Sea, close to significant existing infrastructure […]

  • Maersk Supply Service lands Culzean work

    15 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    Maersk Supply Service has secured a ‘major contract’ with Maersk Oil UK to project manage the complete towing, mooring installation and hook up service scopes for the Culzean project in the North Sea. Maersk Supply Service said in a statement on Monday that it is the company’s fourth contract to provide both vessel and integrated […]

  • Green light for Neptune’s Juliet decommissioning plan

    2 August 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has received approval for its decommissioning plan for the Juliet field located in the UK North Sea. 

  • TWBII Provides Offshore Construction Update

    9 November 2018

    27 out of the 32 monopile foundations have been installed on the 200MW Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWB II) offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Fugro Set to Carry Out Verbier Survey

    26 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    A geophysical survey vessel MV Fugro Galaxy, has arrived on location to acquire a site survey over the Verbier prospect in the UK Central North Sea, Jersey Oil & Gas informed on Wednesday. The Verbier prospect is located within the UK Seaward Licence area P.2170, blocks 20/5b & 21/1d (P.2170 licence) in water depths of between 100-128 meters. The […]

  • EMGS Nets Multi-Client Letter of Intent

    25 February 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has received a letter of intent from an undisclosed customer with an approximate value of USD 8 million.  Under the letter of intent, the customer will license certain data from the EMGS’ existing EM multi-client library in Norway, and prefund a new multi-client acquisition in the North Sea. Furthermore, the letter of […]

  • ‘VOS Glory’ en route to UK

    4 February 2015

    Vroon has informed that on Wednesday, February 4, the VOS Glory vessel left Fujian Shipbuilding Trading in Fuzhou, China. The vessel is at the start of its journey to the United Kingdom, where it will operate in the North Sea under management of Vroon Offshore Services Aberdeen. VOS Glory is a 60m ERRV-FSV (emergency response and rescue vessel/field-support […]

  • ConocoPhillips Extends Island Commander Contract (Norway)

    5 May 2013

     Island Offshore, a Norway-based owner of offshore support vessels, has announced that ConocoPhillips has declared a one year option on the MV Island Commander. The well stimulation vessel, built in 2009, has worked for ConocoPhillips at the Greater Ekofisk Area in the North Sea ever since. The vessel is equipped with a Schlumberger stimulation spread. […]

  • VIDEO: VOS’ Vessels at Work

    29 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) which operates a fleet of over 100 vessels shows their subsea support vessels at work. VOS’ geographical focus is primarily in the North Sea, Mediterranean and South-East Asia. It operates four main categories of vessels: platform-supply vessels (PSV), anchor-handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels, emergency response and rescue vessels (ERRV) and subsea […]