2316 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

2316 results found for 'Shetland Islands'
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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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: 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, […]

  • Crew member injured on board ‘North Sea Atlantic’

    23 July 2015

    An offshore worker has been injured on a vessel operating near Schiehallion oil field located west of the Shetland Islands.  The man was working on Technip-operated multi-purpose construction vessel, the North Sea Atlantic. The vessel is designed for pipelay, subsea construction and survey projects. Offshore Energy Today reached out to Technip to enquire about the details of the […]

  • UK: BMT Provides IMMS for New Quad 204 FPSO

    5 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    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, […]

  • Scottish Offshore Renewables Developers Worried over SHE’s Connection Delay

    14 January 2013
    Storage

    Developers of offshore renewable energy in Scotland are worried over delay in power connection between Orkney and Shetland Islands and the mainland, which was announced by SSE’s Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission(SHE) on December 20, Bloomberg informs. Richard Yemm, founder and director of Pelamis Wave Power Ltd that has projects off both islands, is cited by […]

  • Scottish Offshore Renewables Developers Worried over SHE’s Connection Delay

    14 January 2013
    Storage

    Developers of offshore renewable energy in Scotland are worried over delay in power connection between Orkney and Shetland Islands and the mainland, which was announced by SSE’s Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission(SHE) on December 20, Bloomberg informs. Richard Yemm, founder and director of Pelamis Wave Power Ltd that has projects off both islands, is cited by […]

  • BMT Secures Quad 204 FPSO Job (UK)

    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, […]

  • USA: New Quad 204 FPSO to Receive BMT’s Integrated Marine Monitoring System

    5 November 2012

    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, […]

  • NAFC Marine Centre Releases Tidal Energy Guidelines (UK)

    21 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    NAFC Marine Centre Marine Spatial Planning team has published a new report ‘Regional Locational Guidance for wave and tidal energy in the Shetland Islands’. It provides guidance to the marine renewables industry on the siting of wave and tidal devices. The report details the methodology used to integrate environmental, social and economic considerations into the […]

  • Bluewater Bags Rosebank FPSO Deal

    7 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Bluewater Energy Services B.V. has been awarded a contract from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the engineering, procurement, construction and integration (EPCI) of a major Turret and Mooring System for the Rosebank Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The Rosebank FPSO will be located approximately 175 kilometres northwest of the Shetland Islands, with a water […]

  • CNR restarts Ninian production after fire

    27 June 2016

    CNR International has resumed production from its Ninian South platform, located in the UK sector of the North Sea, after a shutdown last week. The spokesperson for CNR told Offshore Energy Today that the company restarted output from the Ninian South platform on Sunday morning. Production from the offshore platform was shut down as a […]

  • Vattenfall Pulls out of Scottish Waves

    9 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    Scottish marine renewables sector was dealth another blow after Swedish utility decided to exit a project off the Shetland Islands. On Friday, Vattenfall announced it has appointed Resolve Group as liquidators for Aegir Wave Power Ltd (AWP), a joint venture with Pelamis Wave Power, which currently had no employees. AWP was behind a 10MW wave […]

  • UK: Aegir Wave Farm to Benefit from Viking Wind Farm

    5 April 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has granted consent for the 370MW Viking wind farm on Shetland. The wind farm will allow the construction of an interconnector cable between the Shetland Isles and the Scottish mainland, allowing the export of electricity to the national grid. This interconnector is vital for the Aegir wave farm being developed off […]

  • Bluewater to build turret and mooring system for Rosebank FPSO

    7 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Bluewater Energy Services B.V. has announced the award of a contract from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the engineering, procurement, construction and integration (EPCI) of a turret and mooring system for the Rosebank Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. According to Bluewater, this turret and mooring system will be a key component of the […]

  • Shell sanctions redevelopment of Penguins field

    15 January 2018

    The Hague-based Shell has sanctioned the redevelopment of the Penguins oil and gas field in the UK’s Northern Sea.

  • Video: Enabling Future Arrays in Tidal project

    27 October 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    EU Horizon 2020-launched ‘Enabling Future Arrays in Tidal’ (EnFAIT) project carries out a demonstration of a grid-connected tidal energy array with the aim to provide a step change in the lifetime cost of energy for tidal power. The project involves a consortium of nine leading industrial, academic and research organisations, and is led by the […]

  • Photo: Clair Ridge QUID module ready to set sail to Clair field (UK)

    25 March 2015
    Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Heerema Marine Contractors has informed through its social media page that the Clair Ridge QUID module has been lifted onto Dockwise’s Black Marlin vessel. Topside modules for the Clair Ridge development are being built in HHI fabrication facility in Ulsan, Korea. According to Heerema, the vessel is now ready to sail to the Clair field […]

  • GALLERY: Heerema’s Sleipnir vessel in record-breaking jacket lift for Shell

    12 August 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Heerema’s giant semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir has removed Shell’s 10100 mT Brent Alpha jacket, which was located in the UK North Sea.