Talisman Sinopec is returning its workers back to the Buchan Alpha platform in the North Sea, following an evacuation earlier this week. The company yesterday said it had flown 61 non-essential personnel from the semi-submersible platform, located 83 miles North East of Aberdeen, following severe we
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to carry out exploration drilling of well 30/11-11 in the Krafla prospect, in the North Sea. Statoil is the operator for exploration licences 272 and 035 in block 30/11 in the northern part of the North Sea. Exploration we
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway for modifications at Sleipner for connecting a gas pipeline from Gina Krog, in the North Sea. Gina Krog is an oil and gas find, located in blocks 15/5 and 15/6 in the central North Sea. Statoil is the operator of the field
Danish drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has received the Petroleum Safety Authority’s (PSA) Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the Maersk Interceptor jack-up drilling rig. Maersk Interceptor is a jack-up drilling rig, delivered by the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. The unit, one of th
Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) has informed that drilling of the Xana exploration well in licence 9/95 on the Danish continental shelf has started. Noreco is partner in the licence with an ownership of 20.1 per cent. The licence is located close to the gas discovery Svane, in the Danish sector of
ExxonMobil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use West Alpha drilling rig for production drilling, completion and installation of subsea equipment on the Balder field, in the North Sea. Balder was the first oil field to be discovered on the Norwegian Continental
Songa Offshore has reported that its semi-submersible drilling rig Songa Dee is waiting for the weather to improve to continue its work for Statoil in the North Sea. Songa Dee is currently located at the coast of Norway. Once the weather conditions are improved, the rig will move to drilling locatio
Centrica Resources Norge AS, operator of production licence 528 B, has informed it is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6707/10-3 S, in the Norwegian Sea. The well was drilled about 20 kilometers northeast of the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea. The primary and secondary explorati
Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted an international rig count report for November 2014 on its Investor Relations website according to which the international offshore rigs are up from last month. The international rig count for November 2014 was 1,324, up 16 from the 1,308 counted in October 2014,
Russian State Committee for natural resources has confirmed the discovery of the new Arctic oil and gas field Pobeda located on the Kara Sea shelf. The field was discovered as the result of drilling of the northernmost well in the world – the Universitetskaya-1. In September, Rosneft announced Unive
Oil & gas operators must share ideas and information to manage ageing North Sea platforms as safely, efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, industry leaders were told by a UK HSE manager. According to East of England Energy Group (EEEGR), about 70 per cent of installations and equipment in th
Maersk Oil Norway AS has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to drill exploration well 6406/6-4 in the Tvillingen Sør prospect, in the Norwegian Sea. Maersk is the operator for production licence 510 in blocks 6406/5 and 6406/6 at Haltenbanken located in the Norwegian S
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of four drilling consultancy companies: Acona Well Management Services, AGR Petroleum Services AS, Rig Management Norway and Ross Offshore. The PSA says that it is the operating company that has overall responsibility for ensuring
Prosafe has informed that Premier Oil UK Limited has exercised a one month option for the provision of the Safe Scandinavia semi-submersible accommodation rig. The rig will be used at the Solan installation on the UK continental shelf. The one month option extends on site operations through until en
