The drilling operation will be undertaken by BP Exploration Operating Company Limited using the Stena Carron drilling rig. The other joint venture partners are CIECO Exploration and Production (UK) Limited, Idemitsu Petroleum UK Ltd, Nexen Petroleum U.K. Limited and Faroe Petroleum
Yesterday, around noon, Total E&P UK evacuated non-essential personnel from the Elgin and Rowan Viking offshore facilities located some 240km off the coast of Aberdeen. The evacuation in the central Graben area was due to a well control problem occurring on the wellhead platform at the Elgin field,
Eidesvik newbuilding, Viking Prince, was named in an official ceremony in Aalesund, Norway, on 23 March. Viking Prince is the fifth Eidesvik Offshore vessel that is powered by LNG. It is a powerfull supplyship with large volume and large deck space. The LNG dual fuel engines ensures low NOx and CO2
Fairmount Marine’s multipurpose support vessel Fairmount Fuji has assisted drillship Stena Forth, owned by Swedish Stena Drilling, when passing by Cape Town, South Africa. Fairmount Fuji was contracted to perform several cargo runs. Stena Forth anchored offshore Cape Town for crew changes and replen
Lundin Petroleum AB announces that the Johan Sverdrup appraisal well 16/2-11 located in PL501 has encountered a 54 meter gross oil column in Upper and Middle Jurassic sandstone reservoir in an oil-down-to situation. The reservoir was encountered at depth prognosis. The well is located 2,2 km south-e
Technip’s UK entity has been awarded a contract by BP and partners to develop the subsea infrastructure for the Quad 204 project, located West of Shetland. This is Technip’s largest contract to date in the UK North Sea, worth approximately €600 million (around £500 million). The Quad 204 project, ap
Oil and gas production from offshore resources is of considerable importance for energy companies as existing base resources are being depleted at a rapid rate. New oil discoveries of significance are becoming less common, with the majority of major finds being offshore.
A UK based drilling contractor Awilco Drilling PLC has signed a Letter of Award (LOA) with Premier Oil Limited for the provision of WilPhoenix for the drilling of two firm exploration wells estimated at 30 days each with the option to drill up to two additional wells. The contract value for the firm
Bergen Group Rosenberg has today signed a contract for acquisition of the majority shareholding (60%) in the engineering company Origo Process AS in Stavanger. Origo Process AS is a well-established supplier of process expertise to the oil and gas industry, and the acquisition will strengthen both t
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday issued an executive order appointing Rosneft’s Pavel Fedorov as Deputy Energy Minister. In response to Pavel Fedorov’s move to work as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, his responsibilities have been reassigned to me
Eidesvik has entered into an agreement with Lundin Norway for chartering of the LNG powered supply vessel Viking Prince, which will be delivered from Kleven Verft 30th of March 2012. Viking Prince will replace Viking Athene in the existing contract between the two parties from the time of delivery,
Ocean Alden, the newly built stand-by vessel for the Gjøa field was named today at a ceremony at the GDF SUEZ base in Florø. A new subsea warehouse and workshop were inaugurated on the same occasion. GDF SUEZ E&P Norge has awarded shipowners Atlantic Offshore a 10 year contract for the operation of
Statoil and its partners are in the process of concluding drilling operations in the exploration well 30/6-28S located in the production license PL053 in the Oseberg Area Unit. The well drilled by the rig COSL Pioneer proved an oil column of 12 metres in the Statfjord Formation. The estimated volume
Providence Resources P.l.c., today provided a final testing update from its Barryroe well, offshore southern Ireland. The 48/24-10z Barryroe appraisal well is located in approximately 100 metre water depth, some 50 kilometres offshore Ireland in Standard Exploration Licence (SEL) 1/11 in the North C
