Fossil Energy
Blue Water Charters Dockwise Vessel for Platform Transport
Blue Water signed a contract in 2013 with a global leader in the design, construction and repair of mobile offshore rigs. The contract included heavy-lift transportation of a number of drilling rigs and handling more than 600.000 freight tons by dry and wet towage. “For this project we have chartere
Atlantic Petroleum December Production Hit by Bad Weather
P/F Atlantic Petroleum today announces that during the month of December, Atlantic Petroleum produced a net total of 66,000 barrels of oil equivalents (boe) from the Chestnut, Ettrick and Blackbird fields in the North Sea. Chestnut production was affected by adverse weather during the month. The ave
AMEC Hired for EPC Services on Nexen’s Offshore Assets
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been appointed by Nexen Petroleum UK Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for their North Sea offshore assets. Nexen is a significant contributo
Stork Sells Subsea Division to N-Sea Group
Stork Technical Services, the global provider of knowledge based asset integrity services to the oil & gas, power and chemical industries, today announced it has reached an agreement to sell its Subsea division to N-Sea Group. Stork is divesting its Subsea division following a strategic review of it
Endeavour: Production from Second Rochelle Well Delayed
Endeavour International Corporation today announced an update on the current production from the first well (W1) at the Rochelle field and the timing of the start-up of the second production well (E2). Current gross production from the W1 well is 65 – 70 million cubic feet of gas per day with an add
Top News of the Week Dec 30, 2013 – Jan 5, 2014
Top News of the Week Dec 30, 2013 – Jan 5, 2014
Statoil to Use ‘Regalia’ at Grane Field
Statoil has received consent to use the Regalia mobile accommodation rig at Grane field in the North Sea in connection with modification and maintenance activities. The Grane field is in block 25/11 in the central section of the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The field has been developed using an
Statoil’s ‘Statfjord A’ Undergoes Lifting Equipment Inspection
On 7 November and 19-22 November 2013, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of the control and management of materials handling and technical condition of lifting equipment at Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) and the company’s management of lifting equipment maintenance at
Tullow Completes Dry Well Near Troll C
Tullow Oil Norge AS, operator of production licence 551, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 31/3-4. The well was dry. The well was drilled approx. ten kilometres north of the Troll C facility in the North Sea. The well’s primary exploration target was to prove petroleum in
PSA Inspects ‘Maersk Intrepid’ Rig
From 3 to 5 December 2013, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of Mærsk Drilling (Mærsk). The objective of the audit was to verify that Mærsk has taken the necessary measurements and implemented measures to ensure that Mærsk Intrepid complies with the petroleum regulatio
Lundin Spins Drill Bit at Johan Sverdrup Appraisal Well
Lundin Petroleum has announced that drilling of the appraisal well 16/3-8S on the Johan Sverdrup discovery located in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), has started. The well is located on PL501 at the crest of the Avaldsnes High in the eastern part of the discovery with
CLS Offshore Moves to New Facilities (UK)
Energy sector services company CLS Offshore has invested around £350,000 in new offices at Hull, with plans to add a fabrication workshop in the near future. The move has already added £2m to the value of one existing contract with an international company and the Great Yarmouth headquartered compan
BP Extends ‘Maersk Reacher’ Rig Contract Until September 2016
BP Norway has extended the contract for the jack-up Maersk Reacher by two years from September 2014 to September 2016. BP Norway holds options to further extend the contract by up to additional four years until September 2020. The estimated value of the two-year extension is USD 222m. “We are very p
VIDEO: Dong Energy’s Hejre Jacket Almost Complete
DONG Energy’s new Hejre platform is being prepared for installation. In Vlissingen, the Netherlands, the employees at the Heerema yard are working hard to finish the construction of the Hejre jacket in time for the planned installation in the North Sea, in the early summer of 2014. The Hejre develop