2327 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

2327 results found for 'Shetland Islands'
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  • 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.

  • Safe Caledonia flotel to stay with BP until end of November

    6 August 2018
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    British oil major BP has exercised the one-month option to extend the charter of Prosafe’s Safe Caledonia.

  • 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 […]

  • UK: TAQA Starts Process to Restore Brent Oil Flows After Platform Shutdown

    17 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) has begun the process of restoring the flow of an estimated 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil 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 […]

  • Total kicks off production at pair of gas fields west of Shetland

    30 August 2017
    Project & Tenders

    French oil major Total has started production at the Edradour & Glenlivet gas and condensate fields in the West of Shetland.  The fields are located in about 300 to 435 meters of water in the West of Shetland area, close to the Laggan-Tormore fields which came on stream in February 2016. The Laggan-Tormore development consists of […]

  • WorleyParsons to Execute FEED on Chevron’s Rosebank Field (UK)

    24 July 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    WorleyParsons announces that Chevron North Sea Limited has selected WorleyParsons and its INTECSEA subsidiary to execute the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for the facilities associated with the Rosebank field, which include a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) and subsea infrastructure. The work will be performed at WorleyParsons’ offices in Houston, Texas supported […]

  • Drydocks World wins Innovative Solution Award for Solan oil storage tank

    25 May 2015
    Equipment

    Drydocks World and Maritime World, a Dubai-based services provider to the offshore oil and gas industry, has received the “Innovative solution” Award at the distribution of “International Business Excellence Awards” ceremony for constructing subsea oil storage tank “Solan”. Drydocks began working on subsea oil storage tank “Solan”, which accommodates more than 400,000 barrels of oil […]

  • Hyundai Heavy Loses USD 1.9 Billion FPSO Order

    14 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    Chevron North Sea Limited has canceled its order for a Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) unit at South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries. The shipbuilding contract, signed in April 2013, was valued at KRW 2.157 trillion (around USD 1.85 billion). HHI was in charge of the design verification, detailed design and full engineering, procurement, and construction of the FPSO. In […]

  • PGS, Spectrum Reveal East Greenland 2D MultiClient

    14 February 2011
    Business & Finance

    Petroleum Geo Services (PGS) together with Spectrum have completed reprocessing 7,357km of 80’s vintage 2D seismic data offshore the south east coast of Greenland, with a significant improvement in data quality. South Eastern Greenland The seismic data is located offshore South Eastern Greenland between 62 and 72 degrees latitude. This area includes the southern part […]

  • Siccar Point Hires Crondall for Cambo Field Support

    17 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Crondall Energy, the floating production and subsea specialist, has secured a frame agreement contract with Siccar Point Energy to provide support on the Cambo field, West of Shetland. Support will initially cover the identification and evaluation of FPSO options for the development and pre-FEED technical assurance of the sub sea design. The FPSO scope of […]

  • South Korea: Hyundai Heavy Secures USD 1.9 Bln FPSO Order

    11 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    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 […]

  • UK: Chevron Selects WorleyParsons for Execution of Rosebank FEED

    24 July 2012
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    WorleyParsons announces that Chevron North Sea Limited has selected WorleyParsons and its INTECSEA subsidiary to execute the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for the facilities associated with the Rosebank field, which include a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) and subsea infrastructure. The work will be performed at WorleyParsons’ offices in Houston, Texas supported […]

  • Xcite Shares Soar on Statoil Bid Speculation (UK)

    14 March 2013

    Shares of Xcite Energy Ltd today jumped 3.00% on speculation that Norway’s oil giant Statoil is thinking of launching a 2 GBP per share takeover offer, Daily Mail has reported. According to Daily Mail, Statoil is interested in the company’s Bentley field. The company did not immediately reply to an e-mail seeking comment, sent by […]

  • WATCH: Shetlanders send a message in a bottle urging ‘sibling across the sea’ to stop massive oil & gas project

    20 January 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    A group of Shetlanders have made a short film, asking Norway to stop the development of a giant oil field off the coast of Shetland.

  • Solan oil tank arrives in Lerwick

    28 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    A large steel oil storage tank to be installed west of Shetland as part of Premier’s development of the Solan field has arrived in Lerwick onboard a heavy-transport vessel Xiang Yun Kou, to make use of the port’s deep-water quays and anchorage. The vessel is berthed at Holmsgarth 5 and local engineering and logistics companies […]

  • BP retesting Clair Ridge crew after five test positive for Covid-19

    13 October 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    BP has confirmed that five crew members on its platform off the UK have tested positive for Covid-19 and have been flown to shore.

  • Shell Increases Stake in Schiehallion Field (UK)

    14 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Shell announced today the signing of separate agreements for the acquisition of Murphy Schiehallion Limited 5.9% stake in the Schiehallion field west of Shetlands and for the sale of Shell’s interest in the Seal area within the Peace River oil sands of Alberta, Canada to Murphy Oil Company Ltd. The additional equity in the Schiehallion […]

  • ACE Winches Completes Equipment Package for Quad204 Project

    28 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    ACE Winches has completed a scope of work for Technip as part of a subsea infrastructure project in the Loyal field, west of the Shetland Islands. Quad204 is the redevelopment of the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, located 175 km west of Shetland and 15 km north of the Foinaven field. The complete project will see […]

  • PHOTO: BP’s new FPSO coming together

    13 July 2015
    Project & Tenders

      British oil giant BP has, through social media, revealed a photograph of its new Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The 270 metres long, 52 meters wide FPSO, to be named Glen Lyon, is currently under construction at a Hyundai Heavy Industry shipyard in South Korea. Once completed, the vessel will be deployed in the UK […]

  • Technip Bags Edradour Subsea Gig from Total

    4 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Technip has been awarded a contract by Total E&P UK for the Edradour Subsea Development, located approximately 75 kilometers North West of the Shetland Islands, in approximately 300 meters of water. Technip’s scope of work covers the: – fabrication and installation of 12” production pipelines, 6” MEG pipeline complete with 2″ piggy backed service line; – supply […]