2327 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

2327 results found for 'Shetland Islands'
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  • PHOTO: Normand Vision CSV resting in Schiedam

    26 March 2018

    Navingo’s Siwart Mackintosh has sent us an image of the construction support vessel Normand Vision in the Port of Rotterdam.

  • EPC Offshore Supports Total UK’s Edradour Development

    14 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Project management and development engineering specialist EPC Offshore has signed an agreement with Total E&P UK Ltd (TEP UK) to provide support services at its natural gas and condensate discovery in the Atlantic. Edradour, located in Block 206/4 of the UK Continental Shelf, is expected to start pumping in 2016, will be linked to the […]

  • DeltaTek wins North Sea cementing services deal from Siccar Point

    21 August 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Well construction specialist DeltaTek Global has won a two-year contract from Siccar Point Energy.

  • EPC Offshore Helps Total E&P UK Develop Edradour Discovery

    14 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Project management and development engineering specialist EPC Offshore has signed an agreement with Total E&P UK Ltd (TEP UK) to provide support services at its natural gas and condensate discovery in the Atlantic. Edradour, located in Block 206/4 of the UK Continental Shelf, is expected to start pumping in 2016, will be linked to the […]

  • JFMS Secures Work on EnFAIT Project

    15 September 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) will be providing specialist marine engineering and consultancy services for the recently awarded €20-million European tidal energy project consortium, Enabling Future Arrays in Tidal (EnFAIT),  The project, led by Nova Innovation, aims to increase the commercial viability of tidal power and highlight its effectiveness as a source of reliable and […]

  • Top News of The Week August 12 -17, 2013

    18 August 2013

    ‘Ramco Crusader’ OSV Sinks Off Brazil Brazil’s national oil company Petrobras has informed that the Ramco Crusader offshore support vessel sank Monday night, offshore Brazil. Huntington Field Shut Amid FPSO Issues. All Noreco’s Fields Now Closed Norwegian oil company Noreco has announcer that E.ON, the operator on the Huntington field in the UK North Sea, […]

  • TAQA Evacuates Non-Core Crew from Cormorant Alpha (UK)

    16 January 2013

    Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) has concluded the planned reduction of non-core personnel from the Cormorant Alpha platform in the northern UK North Sea following the detection of hydrocarbons in one leg of the platform. There were 159 people on board when the incident was discovered on January 14. On Tuesday, 92 non-core […]

  • Oil Flows Through Brent Pipeline. Cormorant Alpha Rig Remains Shut (UK)

    18 January 2013

    Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) has confirmed that initial flows of crude oil have resumed in the Brent pipeline system following a precautionary shutdown on Monday. The pipeline system, which is operated by TAQA and runs through the Cormorant Alpha platform, was halted after hydrocarbons were detected inside one of the platform’s legs. […]

  • Equinor halts Mariner flights as helicopter gets stuck

    2 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    Crew changes on the Equinor-operated Mariner platform located off the UK have been suspended after a helicopter got stuck on the platform.

  • Sullom Voe Port Sells Its Troubled Tugs

    22 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Shetland Islands Council has signed a deal to sell its troubled tug Solan, operated by Sullom Voe Harbour Authority, to a towage company Panfido, based in Venice, Italy. The council added that the tug, which used to provide towage services at the Port of Sullom Voe, will now be used in the port of Naples. Panfido is also moving ahead […]

  • UK: Worst Case Scenario for Potential Chevron’s Lagavulin Prospect Oil Spill

    8 December 2010

    An oil spill from a deepwater blowout near the Shetland Islands could reach the coastlines of Scotland, eastern England, Norway and Greenland, according to a company which began drilling there in October. Chevron, one of the world’s largest oil companies, made a worst-case forecast of the impact caused by a spill of 77,300 barrels a […]

  • UK: Aker Solutions Supports Redevelopment of Quad 204 Fields

    13 March 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Aker Solutions, the international oil services provider, has secured a NOK 650 million (GBP 70 million) contract with BP to help redevelop one of the largest oil fields in the UK sector. The Aberdeen operation of Aker Solutions will manufacture and supply all subsea controls equipment for the Quad 204 project, the redevelopment of the […]

  • SPX to Supply Pumps for Enquest’s Kraken Development

    21 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    SPX Corporation has received a $22 million contract to supply oil well production pumps for the Enquest-operated Kraken field in the North Sea. The pumps will be utilized for key artificial lift service on the oil field project. Specifically, the new order is for fifteen ClydeUnion-branded Hydraulic Submersible Pumps, (HSPs), which will be fulfilled by ClydeUnion’s […]

  • EnQuest: Kraken on track for first oil in 2017

    18 March 2016
    Project & Tenders

    UK-based oil and gas development and production company EnQuest has said that its Kraken project in the UK North Sea is on track to achieve first oil in the first half of 2017. In its 2015 results statement from March 17, the company said it would continue with cost cutting efforts in 2016. Furthermore, EnQuest said in its annual report […]

  • Top news, July 3 – 9, 2017

    9 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from July 3 – 9, 2017.

  • Top News of The Week August 19 – 24, 2013

    25 August 2013

    Top News of The Week August 19 – 24, 2013

  • Report: Platform evacuation in North Sea

    19 February 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Canadian Natural Resources International (CNR) oil company has evacuated oil workers from its offshore platform in the UK North Sea. According to Evening Express, the company yesterday removed workers from the Ninian Central Platform, located around 249 nautical miles from Aberdeen. The newspaper has said that the platform was evacuated due to “to drinking water contamination.” Offshore Energy Today […]

  • Aker Solutions Builds Subsea Equipment for Quad 204 Project (UK)

    13 March 2013

    Aker Solutions, the international oil services provider, has secured a NOK 650 million (GBP 70 million) contract with BP to help redevelop one of the largest oil fields in the UK sector. The Aberdeen operation of Aker Solutions will manufacture and supply all subsea controls equipment for the Quad 204 project, the redevelopment of the Schiehallion and […]

  • Siccar Point Hires Sembcorp Marine for Cambo FPSO FEED Work

    29 August 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Siccar Point Energy E&P has awarded an exclusive Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract to Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters for the design of a Sevan cylindrical FPSO for its Cambo field development on the UKCS. The Cambo field, located 125km northwest of the Shetland Islands in a water depth of 1100m, was discovered in […]

  • Update: BP shuts Clair production after oil leak

    3 October 2016

    The article has been amended to include statements by BP and WWF Scotland. British oil firm BP has shut down production from its Clair offshore platform located West of Shetland. In a statement sent to Offshore Energy Today, BP confirmed that “a quantity of oil in water was released to the sea from the Clair platform,”  […]

  • Heerema-AF JV to remove Murchison platform

    7 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    AF Gruppen ASA, in a consortium with Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland SE, has now signed a contract with CNR International (U.K) Limited, for the removal and disposal of the Murchison Platform in the North Sea. The Murchison oil field straddles the UK/Norway median line, with the platform itself being located on the United Kingdom Continental […]

  • Hurricane ‘highly encouraged’ by Lancaster horizontal sidetrack well

    18 October 2016
    Project & Tenders

    UK-based oil and gas exploration company Hurricane Energy has achieved sustainable flow from the 205 21a-7Z horizontal sidetrack well at its Lancaster field west of Shetland Islands. Hurricane said on Tuesday that it used an electrical submersible pump to achieve a sustainable flow rate of 14,500 stock tank barrels of oil per day with no produced […]

  • TAQA Working to Restore Oil Flow Following Rig Shutdown (UK)

    17 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    TAQA has begun the process of restoring the flow of an estimated 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil in the Brent pipeline system following a precautionary shutdown on Monday. The pipeline system, which is operated by TAQA and runs through the Cormorant Alpha platform, was halted after a small hydrocarbons release in one […]

  • BP, Partners to Develop 3rd Phase of Giant Clair Field (UK)

    28 March 2013

    BP and its co-venturers Shell, ConocoPhillips and Chevron announced today their decision to proceed with a two-year appraisal programme to look at the possibility of developing a third phase of the giant Clair field, originally discovered in 1977, west of the Shetland Islands. The initial commitment involves a two year programme to drill five appraisal wells. This could […]

  • UK Gives BP a Go-Ahead for Drilling Offshore Shetlands

    23 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Energy Minister Charles Hendry has given BP consent to drill the deepwater North Uist well, northwest of the Shetland Islands. The Department of Energy and Climate Change has subjected BP’s application, including the environmental impact and emergency response plans, to detailed and extensive scrutiny, and the Health and Safety Executive has undertaken a thorough examination […]