2313 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

2313 results found for 'Shetland Islands'
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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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 […]

  • Hurricane’s Lancaster pilot well confirms oil presence

    9 September 2016

    UK-based oil and gas exploration company Hurricane Energy has completed drilling of the pilot well at its Lancaster field west of Shetland Islands, confirming oil presence. The well, located in license P1368 Central in which Hurricane has a 100% interest, had been drilled using the Transocean Spitsbergen drilling rig. The 205/21a-7 pilot well is the first in […]

  • UK: Vattenfall, Babcock, Abengoa Launch Ocean Energy Engineering Firm

    7 May 2012

    Nautimus, the new Scottish company, has been established by Vattenfall, with support from leading UK engineering support services firm Babcock and Abengoa, the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainable development in the energy and environment sectors. The company will fulfil the engineering, procurement, integration and construction (EPC) needs of wave power and […]

  • Scottish FM Empowers Island Communities

    17 June 2014
    Authorities & Government

    Scotland’s island communities will have greater control over their local economies, natural environment and be represented at the heart of government in an independent Scotland, First Minister Alex Salmond said. ‪ Launching the island prospectus, Empowering Scotland’s Island Communities, in Kirkwall, the First Minister outlined the most comprehensive package of powers for the island communities […]

  • Worley’s Intecsea, OGTC Partner on Pseudo Dry Gas Liquid Removal Tech

    9 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Worley’s Intecsea consultancy has partnered with the Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) to fund prototype testing of its Pseudo Dry Gas (PDG) liquid removal system. This technology has been developed to make long distance subsea tiebacks, which are not typically economic or technically feasible, commercially viable. By reducing back pressure in the pipeline, the […]

  • EnQuest: Kraken under budget. First oil in second quarter

    25 January 2017
    Project & Tenders

    EnQuest, a UK North Sea oil firm, has confirmed that the Kraken field FPSO has arrived in the North Sea and that the project remained under budget. The Kraken, to be developed using the Armada Kraken FPSO, is a large heavy oil accumulation located in the East Shetland basin, to the west of the North […]

  • Shell hands out new deal to Bureau Veritas for offshore and onshore assets in UK

    22 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Shell has awarded a long-term deal, covering 26 offshore installations and three onshore gas plants in the UK, to Bureau Veritas (BV).

  • Cairn Energy to drill Chimera well using Stena Don rig

    13 March 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Cairn Energy has said it has hired the Stena Don semi-submersible drilling rig for the Chimera exploration well offshore the UK.

  • Total: All Culzean topside modules installed. HUC work to start in August

    10 July 2018

    Total-operated Culzean development in the UK North Sea has reached an important breakthrough this week. Namely, all topsides modules were installed by the Heerema Marien Contractors’ heavy lift vessel, SSCV Thialf.

  • UK’s biggest clean maritime competition has its winners

    17 September 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    Fifty-five projects in the UK will receive a share of a £23 million (around $32 million) pot to support the development of innovative technologies aimed at encouraging zero emissions.

  • Petrofac suffers further losses on Laggan-Tormore project (UK)

    20 April 2015
    Project & Tenders

    Petrofac has informed it is entering the final stages of the Laggan-Tormore gas plant project on Shetland in the UK. However, Petrofac expects to recognise a further pre-tax loss on the project of around £130 million ($195 million at current exchange rates) in 2015. To remind, in 2010 Total E&P UK awarded Petrofac a lump-sum engineering, […]

  • Hurricane Energy raises cash for Lancaster drilling. First oil in 2019?

    18 April 2016
    Exploration & Production

    UK’s Hurricane Energy has conditionally raised funds for its exploration campaign in the North Sea, west of Shetland Islands. The company on Monday said that £52.1 million would be raised through a proposed issue of 347,245,265 New Ordinary Shares at a price of 15 pence per share, subject to shareholders’ approval. Kerogen Investments, has subscribed […]

  • 38 new UK offshore projects could be sanctioned by 2022, Rystad says

    3 September 2019

    After several tough years, the sun may finally be ready to shine again on the UK offshore market

  • Pioneering Spirit removes Ninian Northern jacket from North Sea

    22 April 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Allseas has deployed its new jacket lifting technology for the first time to remove CNR International’s Ninian Northern jacket from the North Sea.

  • Chevron approached for Rosebank project share

    26 September 2018

    Chevron has received an expression of interest from an unnamed potential buyer for its interest in the Rosebank field off the UK. 

  • Shell sanctions Penguins field redevelopment. Picks Sevan FPSO for the job

    15 January 2018
    Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Shell has made a final investment decision on the redevelopment of the Penguins oil and gas field in the UK North Sea.

  • Shell set to sell $3 billion North Sea assets to Chrysaor

    27 January 2017

    By Ron Bousso and Clara Denina LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell <RDSa.L> is nearing the sale of a large part of its North Sea oil and gas assets to private equity-backed Chrysaor for $3 billion (2.39 billion pounds), banking sources said, marking a milestone in its drive to reduce debt after buying BG Group. […]