2320 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

2320 results found for 'Shetland Islands'
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  • 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 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 . […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Drydocks World Recognized for SOLAN Project

    12 November 2014
    Equipment

    Drydocks World and Maritime World have been awarded the Best Oil & Gas Project Award for outstanding Project Excellence on the SOLAN Project. The gala event was held on the 30th anniversary of Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC) at the Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi on November 10 2014. According to ADIPEC officials, […]

  • Equinor pens deal to enhance working conditions for North Sea workers

    8 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital

    Unite the union has inked a recognition deal with Equinor for multiple workers, who are employed on the operator’s offshore facilities in the North Sea.

  • TAQA files decommissioning plans for two North Sea platform topsides

    24 July 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy

    TAQA Bratani has filed its decommissioning programs for the Tern and North Cormorant platform topsides, located in the UK North Sea, to the UK authorities.

  • With TotalEnergies deal all done, firm expands presence in ‘one of the largest gas hubs in the UK’

    14 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Kistos has entered the UKCS thanks to the acquisition of TotalEnergies’ stakes in several gas fields located West of Shetland. 

  • TotalEnergies selling third of its stake in Greater Laggan Area fields to Kistos

    31 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation

    London-listed Kistos is buying interests in several gas fields located West of Shetland from French major TotalEnergies.

  • Environmentalists ‘reject’ Shell’s Brent decom plan

    10 April 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Environmental groups have “rejected” Shell’s plans regarding the decommissioning of the company’s four platforms at the Brent field, offshore the UK. Shell submitted the plan in early February to the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The 60-day public consultation expires today (Monday). During the final day of the consultation period, the environmental […]

  • Russian Divers Achieve Record Antarctic Plunge

    29 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    On December 24, 2014 the Antarctica 100 expedition of the Russian Geographical Society’s Branch in the Republic of Tatarstan returned from the Antarctic. Russian divers led by Dimitri Schiller went to the South Pole. The project’s objective was to develop relatively safe methods of deep diving in the Antarctic conditions to improve the effectiveness of […]

  • World’s largest construction vessel brings heaviest load to UK shore

    3 May 2017

    Shell’s Brent Delta platform topside has reached a UK yard where it will be decommissioned. To remind, the topside was lifted off its offshore location last week by Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit vessel, in an effort that has been described as the world record in lifting. The topside weighs around 24,000 tons. The lift, using the largest construction […]

  • STATS Group Ends TAQA’s Brent Pipeline Isolation Project (UK)

    19 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    STATS Group has successfully completed an isolation project on TAQA’s Brent pipeline at Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetland Islands. BP required to undertake a valve refurbishment operation on the 36” Brent Pipeline Pig Receiver while the pipeline remained in normal operation. Aberdeen-based specialist engineering company STATS were approached to provide a double block isolation […]