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  • Norway: Statoil Allowed to Use Floatel Superior at Oseberg

    21 March 2012

    Statoil has been granted consent for use of the Floatel Superior mobile living quarters facility on Oseberg Sør. The consent applies from 20 March 2012 to 10 August 2012. The facility will accommodate extra personnel during a high activity period in the Oseberg area. The floatel will be connected to the Oseberg Sør facility with […]

  • Marathon Oil Awards EPIC Contract to Technip (Norway)

    17 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Technip was awarded a contract by Marathon Oil Norge AS for on-going expansion of the subsea drill centres at Kneler B and Volund located in the Alvheim area in the North Sea. The water depths in the area is around 120 meters, and the subsea work will be performed by use of remotely-operated vehicules as […]

  • UK: Huntington Field Development Plan Approved by DECC

    17 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco)announced that the Field Development Plan for the Huntington field has been approved by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Huntington will be developed using the FPSO Sevan Voyageur, and as previously announced the leasing contract for this unit was signed last week. Production is expected to commence in […]

  • Eidesvik scoops extensions for two supply vessels

    4 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian supply, subsea and seismic shipping company, Eidesvik Offshore, has been awarded contract extensions for two of its vessels by a French oil major Total.  Eidesvik was awarded contract extensions for the platform supply vessels, the Viking Lady and Viking Athene. These two supply vessels will work for Total E&P on the Solaris well in […]

  • Vestas, Siemens Plan to Make Largest Offshore Wind Facility in Esbjerg, Denmark

    21 June 2012

    Vestas and Siemens have plans to make the world’s largest offshore wind turbine facility by leasing a part of new East Port terminal situated at the Esbjerg Port, a Siemens representative confirmed to Port Strategy news portal. Siemens Wind Power is already providing for three projects by shipping from Esbjerg. Therefore, this is a strategic […]

  • Peterson’s SNS Pool Extends Charter for VOS Producer (The Netherlands)

    14 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Peterson Den Helder B.V. has extended the charter of its platform-supply vessel (PSV), VOS Producer, for an additional year until Spring 2015, Vroon announced. The VOS Producer will continue to work alongside four other Vroon PSVs, all employed in Peterson’s SNS Pool. As a marine, air and land logistics provider to nine oil and gas […]

  • Nordsee Ost: Bladt Wins Race against Time

    21 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    This July, the Bladt team completed yet another successful project, as the Nordsee Ost substation left Bladt Industries headquarters in Aalborg, Denmark. The 1,800 tonnes substation was an exciting challenge for Bladt Industries to complete, as the goal was to finalize the project within 16 months – a very short time frame to conduct a project […]

  • EPG Rolls Out First Borssele Platform

    27 May 2019

    The first external platform produced by Energomontaż-Północ Gdynia (EPG) for the 731.5MW Borssele 3 & 4 wind farm is ready for final outfitting, the Polish manufacturer said. In total, EPG will manufacture and deliver 76 external platforms for the project in the Dutch North Sea. The Borssele 3 & 4 wind farm is being developed by the Blauwwind […]

  • TenneT in Quest of Platform Supply Vessels

    7 October 2019
    Project & Tenders

    TenneT TSO has issued a tender seeking a platform supply vessel (PSV) provider for its platforms in the German and Dutch North Sea. In the tender, the transmission system operator is looking for DP2-compliant PSVs for regular cargo transports from the port of Emden to the offshore platforms and vice versa. The contractor will be in […]

  • UK: Successful Evacuation Trials for Bibby Offshore

    9 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Aberdeen-based subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore is leading the way in saturation diving safety in the North Sea after recently carrying out fully successful evacuation trials. The trials involved mating a Self Propelled Hyperbaric Lifeboat (SPHL) from the company’s Diving Support Vessel (DSV), Bibby Sapphire, to a Portable Hyperbaric Reception Facility onshore. Saturation diving requires […]

  • Wintershall Could Link Skarfjell to Gjøa Platform

    15 January 2014

    Wintershall is well on track in the North Sea: the largest internationally active German crude oil and natural gas producer announces the successful drilling of the Skarfjell South appraisal well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.   The company proved oil and gas in the upper and lower Intra-Heather sandstones of the Skarfjell structure with reservoir […]

  • UK: Shell plans to develop Fram via tie-back to Shearwater

    24 October 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Oil major Shell has submitted an environmental statement (ES) in support of the field development plan for its Fram gas and condensate field in the Central North Sea to the UK authorities.  In the statement, Shell proposed to develop the Fram field, located in Blocks 29/3a, 29/4c, 29/8a, 29/9c in the Central North Sea, as a […]

  • Crosgan appraisal well encounters gas

    6 February 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Sterling Resources Ltd., a Canada-headquartered oil and gas company, has announced that the Crosgan gas discovery appraisal well 42/15b-3 in the UK Southern North Sea, will be plugged. The well, operated by RWE Dea, and drilled by the Ensco 70 jack-up drilling rig, has reached a total depth of 8401 feet measured depth and has encountered gas […]

  • UK: Prime Minister Outlines His Vision for Future

    28 May 2012
    Authorities & Government

    The Prime Minister David Cameron made the case for clean energy in the UK and globally as he addressed delegates at the Clean Energy Ministerial being held in Central London. Speaking to energy ministers from 23 leading economies, and alongside a series of government and commercial announcements, the Prime Minister said:  “There are huge challenges […]

  • UK: Prime Minister Outlines His Vision for Future

    28 May 2012
    Authorities & Government

    The Prime Minister David Cameron made the case for clean energy in the UK and globally as he addressed delegates at the Clean Energy Ministerial being held in Central London. Speaking to energy ministers from 23 leading economies, and alongside a series of government and commercial announcements, the Prime Minister said:  “There are huge challenges […]

  • OpenIJ Wins Amsterdam Sea Lock Deal

    21 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch Highways and Waterways Agency, has officially awarded the construction of the new IJmuiden sea lock, located at the entrance to the North Sea Canal, to the Consortium OpenIJ. The consortium, consisting of BAM-PGGM and Volker Wessels-DIF will be responsible for design, construction, financing and maintenance of the new lock for a period […]

  • TUC sides with offshore unions (UK)

    15 September 2015

    British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) on Monday highlighted the devastating impact the North Sea jobs crisis is having on UK employment at the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Hundreds of jobs have been axed in the past year across the industry including in the helicopter sector. BALPA emphasized that in one company nearly 40 percent of helicopter pilot […]

  • WGK Names New CEO

    2 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has appointed Bob MacDonald as chief executive officer (CEO), effective 6 April. Bob moves into the role from his position as WGK regional director for the North Sea. Bob succeeds Steve Wayman who now becomes Wood Group’s head of strategy and development. He is replacing Ali Green who will step down […]

  • Det norske Gets Consent to Drill Using Maersk Giant

    6 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Det norske oljeselskap ASA has received consent for exploration drilling using the Mærsk Giant mobile drilling facility to drill well 2/9-5 S Heimdalshø, in production licence 494. The well is in the southern part of the North Sea, around 34 km west of Valhall. Water depth at the site is approx. 65 metres. Drilling is […]

  • Keppel breaches new depths in the offshore wind energy sector (Singapore)

    29 July 2010

    Offshore arm Keppel FELS commercialises its new wind turbine installation vessel design for deeper waters in partnership with leading fleet owner and operator Seafox Group. Keppel FELS Limited’s (Keppel FELS) multi-purpose self-elevating platform (MPSEP) design has been chosen by the Seafox Group (Seafox) as the basis for a new-generation, wind turbine installation vessel that can […]

  • Repsol’s Gyda incident ‘could have resulted in loss of life’

    13 September 2019

    The PSA has completed an investigation into an incident involving a dropped object and personal injury on the Gyda field in the North Sea.

  • Norway: Technip Lands Bøyla Field Development Contract

    20 June 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Technip was awarded by Marathon Oil Norge AS an engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning contract, worth above €300 million, for the Bøyla field development in the North Sea, located about 225 kilometers West of Stavanger, Norway, at a water depth of 120 meters. The contract includes all activities necessary to complete the construction of the […]

  • Kongsberg Maritime wins order for Johan Sverdrup field

    26 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Kongsberg Maritime has today been awarded a call-off order for delivery of the Safety and Automation System (SAS), Life Cycle Simulator and SAS Information Management System for the four platforms on the Johan Sverdrup field centre, in the North Sea.  The company says that the order is worth approximately NOK 200 million ($26 million). The order […]

  • CHC heli to support Faroe’s Brasse drilling program

    5 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Offshore helicopter transportation services provider CHC Group has been awarded a new contract with Faroe Petroleum to provide helicopter services during exploration drilling at the Brasse field in the North Sea. According to CHC, the operation will begin in summer 2017 using the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter which registered more than one million fleet hours of service […]

  • Jersey in fundraising talks, launches Greater Buchan Area farm-out process

    12 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    North Sea-focused Jersey Oil & Gas has formally launched the farm-out process of the Greater Buchan Area in the UK North Sea and started talks to raise funds to progress work on the project.