2313 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

2313 results found for 'Shetland Islands'
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  • Fraser Well Management takes over operation of suspended offshore well

    7 October 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Independent oil and gas development and production firm Bridge Petroleum has appointed well engineering and project management specialist Fraser Well Management (FWM) to operate the suspended appraisal well in the Galapagos field in the Northern North Sea.

  • CNRI Hires Harkand Da Vinci Vessel in North Sea

    11 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Fast-Growing international subsea inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) group Harkand is to position a second dive support vessel in the burgeoning North Sea sector after securing a major contract with CNR International (CNRI). The contract will see Harkand deliver jacket life extension works, IRM scopes and inspection services in the second quarter of 2014 for […]

  • UK: Development of EU Ocean Energy in Need of Greater Investment

    28 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Despite of the fast development of EU wave and tidal power technology due to the shortage of governmental financial support and that of big investors, considerable time will have to pass before this sector becomes a reliable source of energy, Euractiv informs. According to renewables manager at UK consultancy Douglas Westwood, Frank Wright: “The big […]

  • Hurricane completes horizontal sidetrack well test on Lancaster

    27 October 2016
    Project & Tenders

    UK-based oil and gas exploration company Hurricane Energy has completed testing operations on the 205 21a-7Z horizontal sidetrack well at its Lancaster field west of Shetland Islands. Hurricane said on Thursday that the company has proceeded to suspend the well as a future producer, providing a second production well ahead of the Early Production System […]

  • Siccar Point delays sanction date for Cambo project due to coronavirus

    30 March 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Siccar Point Energy has decided to defer its planned sanction date for the Cambo project, located West of Shetland, to 2021 in light of the unprecedented worldwide macroeconomic dislocation resulting from Covid-19.

  • What is the meaning of licence extension for controversial Cambo project in UK?

    31 March 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Partners in the Cambo project, Shell and Siccar Point Energy, have received a licence extension for the controversial field development.

  • Faroe Petroleum Acquires Interest in Foinaven Field (UK)

    21 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that it has agreed to acquire a 10% non-operated interest in the East Foinaven Field and a 0.5% interest in the West of Shetland Pipeline System (the “Interests”) from […]

  • Shell hands out Penguins award to Subsea 7

    11 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Infrastructure

    Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Shell for the Penguins redevelopment project, located approximately 150 miles north-east of the Shetland Islands.

  • Carnegie Clean Energy’s wave energy technology gets funding boost

    11 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Technology

    Australia’s wave energy developer Carnegie Clean Energy has received a €317,945 “milestone payment” from the Basque Energy Agency (Ente Vasco de la Energía – EVE) for its ACHIEVE+ wave energy project. The company’s subsidiary, Carnegie Technologies Spain, secured the payment under EVE’s grants program, which supports the demonstration and validation of emerging marine renewable energy […]

  • UK: Faroe Petroleum Acquires Interest in East Foinaven Field

    21 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that it has agreed to acquire a 10% non-operated interest in the East Foinaven Field and a 0.5% interest in the West of Shetland Pipeline System (the “Interests”) from […]

  • Circular FPSO in Norway and reuse in UK as Equinor moves ahead with new projects

    17 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels

    Norwegian energy major Equinor has made progress with two of its offshore project developments located offshore Norway and the UK.

  • BMT Completes Metocean Project at Total’s Martin Linge Field (Norway)

    22 April 2013

    BMT ARGOSS (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has recently completed a comprehensive evaluation of meteorological and oceanographic environmental conditions for the Martin Linge field in the Norwegian sector of the northern North Sea. BMT’s assessment also included the installation routes of associated subsea assets, a submarine power cable to Kollsnes (Norway) across the Norwegian […]

  • BMT Delivers Metocean Support for Total’s Martin Linge Field in Norway

    22 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    BMT ARGOSS (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has recently completed a comprehensive evaluation of meteorological and oceanographic environmental conditions for the Martin Linge field in the Norwegian sector of the northern North Sea. BMT’s assessment also included the installation routes of associated subsea assets, a submarine power cable to Kollsnes (Norway) across the Norwegian […]

  • UK: Chevron Disappointed with Lagavulin Results

    13 June 2011
    Business & Finance

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that drilling has reached target depth on the Lagavulin exploration well (Faroe 10%), operated by Chevron, in the UK Atlantic Margin to the west of the Shetland Islands . […]

  • UK: North Sea Kraken Oil Field Gets Green Light

    15 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    EnQuest PLC, the largest UK independent oil company in the UK North Sea, has given its go-ahead for a £4 billion investment in the c.140 million barrel oil field Kraken development, set to generate billions of revenue for taxpayers and to support an estimated 20,000 jobs during the project’s construction period and an average of […]

  • Hurricane raises cash to boost Lancaster development

    20 October 2016

    Hurricane Energy, a company working to develop its Lancaster discovery located West of the Shetland Islands, has conditionally raised £70 million through a share placement with existing and other institutional investors. The company on Thursday said £70 million would be through an issuance of 205,882,353 Placing Shares at a price of 34 pence per share. […]

  • GALLERY: Pioneering Spirit vessel removes Shell’s Brent Bravo topsides

    18 June 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Allseas-owned heavy lift and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed the single-piece removal of the 25,000 t Brent Bravo topsides from the North Sea.

  • British firm gets its hands on partial stake in giant undeveloped North Sea oil field

    7 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Viaro Energy has received regulatory approval related to the acquisition of a partial interest in a huge undeveloped oil field on the UKCS.

  • Fairfield Successfully Concludes Darwin Drilling Campaign (UK)

    18 February 2013

    Fairfield Energy, the North Sea-focused independent oil and gas company, has announced the successful conclusion of a three well drilling campaign in the Darwin area, consisting of one appraisal and two exploration wells. Under Fairfield’s operatorship, the Ocean Nomad rig drilled the two exploration wells within Block 211/27e by means of a well and a […]

  • All North Sea helicopters equipped with EBS

    1 September 2014
    Equipment

    Every helicopter flying for the offshore oil and gas industry in the UK is now equipped with a new CAT-A Emergency Breathing System, the Step Change in Safety has revealed.

  • Shell Files Brent Decom Plan

    8 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Shell has submitted a decommissioning plan for the Brent oil and gas field to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Following submission, an extended 60-day public consultation has been initiated on recommendations to decommission the North Sea field. The field, located 115 miles north-east of the Shetland Islands has produced around three billion […]

  • Atlantic SuperConnection: Laying the FID groundwork for subsea interconnector to ply UK with geothermal and hydroelectric electricity while doling out wind power to Iceland

    2 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Transition

    Plans have been set to put the required funding in place to take a final investment decision (FID) on a subsea interconnector project between the UK and Iceland.

  • Bumi Armada to refund EnQuest for Kraken FPSO

    15 September 2016
    Infrastructure

    A Malaysian news website has issued a report claiming that that FPSO provider Bumi Armada is still in talks with the UK oil company EnQuest regarding a $65 million refund and liquidation damages claim by EnQuest due to a delay in delivery of the Armada Kraken FPSO. The Malaysian company, however, has rejected the claims of ongoing discussions […]

  • Royal Navy’s HMS Protector Surveys Antarctic Peninsula

    27 June 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Protector returns home to Portsmouth on Wednesday (June 27) from her maiden deployment to the frozen continent of Antarctica. The 5,000-tonne ice-breaker spent most of her seven months away surveying and patrolling the Antarctic Peninsula. In her first deployment since joining the Navy’s fleet in June last year, Protector […]

  • ‘Aggrieved’ FPSO workers to down tools over redundancy package

    25 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Vessels

    UK’s Unite the union has confirmed that its members operating the Foinaven FPSO vessel have voted to take strike action.