2325 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

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  • BP Awards Contract for Removal and Disposal of the North West Hutton Installation

    4 October 2006

    On behalf of the field owners, BP has today awarded a contract to Heerema Marine Contractors for the offshore removal and onshore recycling and disposal of the North West Hutton installation, located some 130km north east of the Shetland Islands. Heerema will be the prime contractor for this work which will also involve a range […]

  • Shetland Firm to Manufacture Tidal Turbine Blades for Local Project

    1 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    A Shetland company will manufacture blades for a bank of tidal turbines that will power 300 homes, Deputy First Minister John Swinney has announced. Shetland Composites secured the six month contract from Edinburgh-based Nova Innovation who is developing five 100kW tidal turbines known as the Shetland Tidal Array. The turbines, which sit more than 100ft […]

  • Shetland Composites to Manufacture Blades for Shetland Tidal Array

    9 December 2014
    Equipment

    A Shetland company will manufacture blades for a bank of tidal turbines that will power 300 homes, Deputy First Minister John Swinney announced recently. Shetland Composites secured the six month contract from Edinburgh-based Nova Innovation who is developing five 100kW tidal turbines known as the Shetland Tidal Array. The turbines, which sit more than 100ft […]

  • Shetland Firm to Manufacture Tidal Turbine Blades for Local Project

    1 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    A Shetland company will manufacture blades for a bank of tidal turbines that will power 300 homes, Deputy First Minister John Swinney has announced. Shetland Composites secured the six month contract from Edinburgh-based Nova Innovation who is developing five 100kW tidal turbines known as the Shetland Tidal Array. The turbines, which sit more than 100ft […]

  • BP’s Clair Ridge platform starts to take shape

    25 June 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    British oil giant BP has reached a significant milestone with the second phase of its Clair Ridge field development, located west of the Shetland Islands, UK. The company has today said it has installed the quarters and utilities topside modules at the new Clair Ridge platform. Dutch firm Heerema lowered the modules on top of the previously […]

  • EnQuest makes first crude oil transfer at Sullom Voe in three years

    14 September 2018

    EnQuest has made a ship-to-ship transfer of crude oil at the Port of Sullom Voe, Shetland, for the first time in almost three years. 

  • Polarcus Naila Finalizes 3D Seismic Program for TGS in UK

    20 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Polarcus Naila has continued to deliver superior performance since her propulsion upgrade in April this year. The modern 3D seismic vessel has recently completed a two month program for TGS-NOPEC towing a large 12 streamer spread offshore of the UK Shetland Islands. This complex program comprised two individual surveys, each employing a variable depth streamer […]

  • World’s First Community-Owned Tidal Turbine Starts Generating Electricity (Scotland)

    21 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    The world’s first community-owned tidal power turbine in Scotland has started exporting electricity to the local grid, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has revealed. The turbine will power up to 30 homes, a locally owned ice plant and Cullivoe Harbour Industrial Estate on North Yell, Shetland. The turbine sits on the seabed at a depth of […]

  • World’s First Community-Owned Tidal Turbine Produces Power

    21 May 2014
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development, Technology

    The world’s first community-owned tidal power turbine in Scotland has started exporting electricity to the local grid, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has revealed. The turbine will power up to 30 homes, a locally owned ice plant and Cullivoe Harbour Industrial Estate on North Yell, Shetland. The turbine sits on the seabed at a depth of […]

  • UK: BP’s Foinaven Back in Production

    6 March 2012

    Reuters reports that BP has restarted oil production from Foinaven field, located west of the Shetland Islands, after it had been shut due to a small leak in January. “Production re-started from the Foinaven field over the weekend, following a one-month shutdown for precautionary inspections and testing of the pipelines,” Reuters quoted BP’s spokesperson as […]

  • Photo: Bollsta Dolphin semi shows its face

    11 February 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Following several artistic impressions of the Bollsta Dolphin semi-submersble drilling rig, Fred. Olsen Energy, the owner, has finally revealed a photo of the rig. The harsh environment ultra-deepwater semi-submersible is currently under construction at the Hyundai Heavy Industries yard in South Korea. The rig was originally slated for delivery in the late first quarter of the […]

  • Equinor Completes UK Rosebank Acquisition from Chevron

    11 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Equinor and Chevron have completed a transaction whereby Equinor has acquired Chevron’s 40% operated interest in the Rosebank project in the West of Shetland region of the UK Continental Shelf. The Rosebank field was discovered in 2004 and lies about 130 km northwest of the Shetland Islands in water depths of approximately 1,110m. The Rosebank […]

  • Maersk Supply Service bags second decom gig from Maersk Oil

    29 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    Maersk Supply Service has secured a second decommissioning contract with Maersk Oil UK; this time for the Leadon subsea decommissioning in autumn 2017, off the Shetland Islands.  The company’s first decommissioning contract with Maersk Oil, for the Janice subsea field in the North Sea, was revealed in September 2016. According to the company, the Janice decommissioning project […]

  • Siccar Point seeks permit to drill exploration well off Shetland

    26 December 2017
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Aberdeen-based oil company Siccar Point Energy has applied to the UK government for consent to drill an exploration well off the Shetland Islands. The exploration well 208/2-A (Lyon) is located in license P1854, approximately 125 km northwest of the Shetland Islands. The water depth at the site is about 1,444 meters. The company’s application to drill the well […]

  • Siccar Point hands in environmental statement for Cambo project

    11 November 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Oil and gas company Siccar Point Energy has submitted an Environmental Statement for the Cambo field development, located West of Shetland, to the UK authorities. 

  • Edward Davey Visits European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, UK

    10 October 2012
    Authorities & Government

    Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey is in Scotland this week highlighting the massive benefit for jobs and business, the energy sector can bring as he visits Shetland, Orkney, Caithness, Edinburgh and Glasgow. On Monday Ed Davey started his visit in Shetland, visiting Burradale wind farm, where Scottish Ministers recently granted consent for the 103 […]

  • UK: Aiger Wave Power Announces Project Information Document

    13 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Aegir Wave Power, in collaboration with the Shetland Islands Council and the Shetland Charitable Trust, have produced a new information document giving an overview of the Aegir Project. The short, ‘Aegir Project Introduction’, is intended as a guide to all interested parties and gives an overview of the project location, Pelamis technology and the project […]

  • Sterling Expects Cladhan FDP Approval by March End (UK)

    6 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Sterling Rescources, a Canadian-listed international oil and gas company headquartered in Calgary, in its operational update issued Tuesday informed that a final version of the Cladhan Field Development Plan (“FDP”) was submitted to DECC at the beginning of February 2013. The Cladhan Field is located in the northern North Sea, approximately 100 km north east of the Shetland […]

  • BP Extends Subsea 7’s Contract for Two UK Fields

    12 October 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea 7 S.A. today announces that BP has extended its contract for subsea construction, inspection, repair and maintenance services for the Foinaven and Schiehallion fields located west of the Shetland Islands. The contract extension is valued at approximately US$300m and will run from 2013 until 2017. Under the terms of this contract, the multi-purpose support […]

  • Kraken on Track for First Oil in Q2 as FPSO Arrives to Field

    17 February 2017

    Kraken floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel has arrived at its field location in the UK North Sea on Monday, February 13. The hook up of the submerged turret production (STP) buoy mooring system to the FPSO was completed on February 15, and a full rotation test performed so that the vessel is now on […]

  • Faroe Petroleum: No Development of Freya and Fulla Discoveries

    2 November 2012

    Faroe Petroleum, an independent oil and gas exploration firm, has announced today, November 2, it will relinquish the licence P161, located west of Shetland Islands. The licence, operated by Faroe Petroleum with 50 per cent interest, contains Freya and Fulla discoveries, however, the company has been unable to find a economically viable solution for development […]

  • Subsea 7 Bags $300 Mln Contract West of Shetlands

    12 October 2012

    Subsea 7 S.A. today announces that BP has extended its contract for subsea construction, inspection, repair and maintenance services for the Foinaven and Schiehallion fields located west of the Shetland Islands. The contract extension is valued at approximately US$300m and will run from 2013 until 2017. Under the terms of this contract, the multi-purpose support […]

  • Siccar Point pushes back Lyon well to minimize costs

    12 September 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Siccar Point Energy has decided to defer the drilling of the Lyon exploration well offshore the Shetland Islands until 2019.

  • UK: Shell Increases Stake in Schiehallion Field

    14 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Shell today signed an agreement for the acquisition of Murphy Schiehallion Limited 5.9% stake in the Schiehallion field located in blocks 204 and 205, approximately 175 kilometres west of the Shetland Islands. The additional equity in the Schiehallion field brings Shell’s stake to 55% and offers Shell access to substantial additional reserves and redevelopment potential […]

  • UK: Page Europa Awards Contract to BMT for Quad 204 IMMS

    5 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Page Europa has awarded a contract to BMT Scientific Marine Services Inc (BMT) to provide an Integrated Marine Monitoring System (IMMS) for the new Quad 204 FPSO that will replace BP’s Schiehallion FPSO operating West of the Shetland Islands. The IMMS will provide real-time data on the local meteorological and oceanographic (MetOcean) environment, FPSO motions, […]