2313 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

2313 results found for 'Shetland Islands'
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  • Kraken FPSO reaches offshore location

    17 February 2017
    Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Delivery of first oil in Q2 2017 is on track, EnQuest said in an operational update on Friday.

  • Worker evacuated from Cormorant Alpha after injury

    27 November 2014
    Exploration & Production

    Shetland Coastguard has flown an injured worker from the North Cormorant platform in the UK North Sea. According to Evening Express, a daily newspaper in Aberdeen, the 58 years old man was taken to the Lerwick hospital by helicopter last night. No further details into the nature and the gravity of the injuries were reported. The […]

  • Offshore Renewables Developers Should Pay More Attention to Island Communities’ Needs

    24 March 2016
    Research & Development

    A research by the University of Cape Town and Plymouth University suggests there is an appetite for renewable energy projects within island communities, but public and private sector bodies could face opposition if they fail to take local distinctiveness into account at the beginning of the planning process. The study, published in the International Journal of Marine […]

  • Scotland: Bredero Shaw to Provide Coat Pipeline Coatings For Laggan Tormore Project

    19 May 2010
    Business & Finance

    ShawCor Ltd.announced its pipe coating division, Bredero Shaw, has received a contract with a value in excess of US$90 million from Corus UK Limited to provide pipeline coatings for the Total E&P UK Ltd. Laggan-Tormore project. Laggan-Tormore is an offshore gas field which lies 125 km north-west of the Shetland Islands in water depths of […]

  • Equinor extends ‘Safe Boreas’ contract at Mariner

    21 August 2018
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has exercised the second of six one-month options to extend the charter of the Safe Boreas accommodation rig.

  • Offshore Renewables Developers Should Pay More Attention to Island Communities’ Needs

    24 March 2016
    Research & Development

    A research by the University of Cape Town and Plymouth University suggests there is an appetite for renewable energy projects within island communities, but public and private sector bodies could face opposition if they fail to take local distinctiveness into account at the beginning of the planning process. The study, published in the International Journal of Marine […]

  • With replacement work underway, restart of TotalEnergies’ UK gas plant anticipated in fortnight’s time

    12 December 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    TotalEnergies is continuing its investigation into the failure of a heating system section at a gas plant on the north coast of the main island of the Shetland Isles.

  • Nova Innovation Launches £500K Crowdfunding Campaign

    6 November 2019
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Tidal energy player Nova Innovation is looking to crowdfund £500,000 on investment platform Seedrs to fast-track its technology and accelerate growth across Europe and North America. In 2016, Nova installed the world’s first offshore tidal array. Located in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, the turbines have been generating electricity and exporting to the grid for over […]

  • Shell sanctions North Sea tie-back to TotalEnergies’ UK gas hub

    17 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Shell has taken a final investment decision (FID) to develop a gas field in the UK sector of the North Sea.

  • Helicopter Crashes Into Sea Offshore Shetland. Four Dead

    24 August 2013

    An oil rig helicopter carrying 18 workers crashed last night into the North Sea, about two nautical miles west of Sumburgh, on Shetland Island in the U.K.  Four passengers died and 14 others were rescued. Police Scotland informed that one passenger is yet to be recovered: ” Police Scotland can confirm that the bodies of three […]

  • CIS Delivers Piling for Subsea 7

    1 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Conductor Installation Services (CIS), an Acteon company that provides hammer services to install conductors and drive piles, has successfully completed a subsea piling operation for Subsea 7 in the UK North Sea. The operation was executed as part of the Cladhan field development, located approximately 100 km northeast of the Shetland Islands. The development will […]

  • GALLERY: Clair Ridge Jacket Leaves Kvaerner’s Verdal Yard (Norway)

    5 June 2013
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

      The Clair Ridge Drilling & Production jacket of 23 000 tonnes – the biggest jacket ever built by the Norwegian Kvaerner yard yesterday left Verdal and is now on tow to its location west of the Shetland Islands. The jacket’s footprint on the seabed is  85 x 68 metres. With the delivery of the […]

  • DONG Energy, Total in joint development of UK fields

    31 October 2014
    Project & Tenders

    DONG Energy has agreed to divest 5% of the UK Edradour field to Total E&P UK Limited. The divestment, when completed, will result in an aligned DONG Energy participation of 20% in the four UK West of Shetland fields, Laggan, Tormore, Edradour and Glenlivet. Total is the sole co-owner (80%) and operator of the fields. DONG […]

  • Clair Ridge Quarters Utility Jacket Leaves Kvaerner Verdal Yard

    12 July 2013

    Norwegian Kvaerner yard this morning held a sail away ceremony for yet another jacket built for an oil industry client. The 9.400 tonnes Quarters Utility jacket, loaded on a Heerema-owned barge, will be deployed at the Clair Ridge project in the UK, on its location west of the Shetland Islands. “This marks the end of the […]

  • Petrofac hires Stena rig for UK operations

    25 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has signed a new drilling contract with Petrofac for operations in the UK using the Stena Don rig.

  • GDF SUEZ Sells Stake in UK Offshore Fields to Eni

    28 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    Eni and GDF SUEZ have signed an agreement for Eni to purchase the 22.5% shareholding of GDF SUEZ in EFOG, a joint-venture between GDF SUEZ and Total E&P UK Ltd, which holds a 46.2% stake in the Elgin – Franklin fields located in the United Kingdom’s North Sea. Through this shareholding Eni will obtain a […]

  • Wood Group Kenny Bags FEED Contract for Rosebank Development (UK)

    29 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Wood Group Kenny has been awarded the Gas Export Pipeline Front End Engineering Design (FEED) by Chevron North Sea Ltd for their Rosebank West of Shetland development. “This is excellent news and keeps us positioned as leaders in the design of pipeline systems in the extreme and hostile environment West of Shetlands,” says Steve Wayman, […]

  • UK: Settlement Reached Over Lerwick Dredging

    22 February 2012

      Lerwick Port Authority (LPA) and Shetland Islands Council have reached a negotiated settlement on the claim payable by the Council relating to the abandonment of a dredging project in 2005 due to the former Bressay Bridge Project. Both LPA and the Council are content to have settled the claim at £4,825,727 before matters reached […]

  • Floating Fender Rental from Trelleborg Provides Ideal Solution for Floating Hotel

    5 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    With two large industrial projects requiring a substantial labour force, the Shetland Islands were facing something of a shortage in accommodation. To overcome this shortage, several floating hotels – or floatels – based on barges, were towed to Lerwick andScalloway, to provide beds for up to 1,070 workers. As part of its innovative fender rental […]

  • TAQA Resumes Initial Flows in Brent Pipeline System (UK)

    18 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) confirms that initial flows of crude oil have resumed in the Brent pipeline system following a precautionary shutdown on Monday. The pipeline system, which is operated by TAQA and runs through the Cormorant Alpha platform, was halted after hydrocarbons were detected inside one of the platform’s legs. The […]

  • AF Gruppen to Scrap Murchison Platform in North Sea

    7 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    AF Gruppen ASA (AFG), in a consortium with Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland SE, named Heerema-AF Consortium, has signed a contract with CNR International (U.K) Limited, for the removal and disposal of the Murchison Platform in the North Sea. The Murchison oil field straddles the UK/Norway median line, with the platform itself being located on the […]

  • First oil flows from Taqa’s Cladhan field (UK)

    29 December 2015

    Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa), on Tuesday announced first oil from the new Cladhan field development in the UK North Sea. The field is developed as a subsea tie-back to the Taqa-operated Tern Alpha platform. Peter Jones, Taqa’s UK managing director, said: “Cladhan is the third field developed by Taqa and the largest to date. […]

  • TAQA Concludes Reduction of Non-Core Personnel from Cormorant Alpha (UK)

    16 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) has concluded the planned reduction of non-core personnel from the Cormorant Alpha platform in the northern UK North Sea following the detection of hydrocarbons in one leg of the platform. There were 159 people on board when the incident was discovered on January 14. On Tuesday, 92 non-core […]

  • EnFAIT tidal array project moves to detailed design phase

    10 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Horizon 2020-funded Enabling Future Arrays in Tidal (EnFAIT) project, led by Scottish tidal energy developer Nova Innovation, has progressed to the detailed design phase.

  • UK: HHI Wins USD 1.9 Bln FPSO Order from Chevron

    11 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder and a leading offshore facilities contractor, today announced it won a USD 1.9 billion order to build a Floating Production Storage and Offloading unit (FPSO) for Chevron North Sea Ltd. Hyundai Heavy will carry out engineering, procurement, and construction for the floating offshore facility to be deployed […]