Fossil Energy
Spirit Energy’s new North Sea gas discovery at ‘lower end of expectations’
Spirit Energy has proved a natural gas discovery in the targeted Carboniferous sandstones of its Andromeda North well located in the UK North Sea, but the discovery is at the “lower end of expectations.”
Equinor takes over Wisting discovery operatorship from OMV
Austrian OMV has agreed to transfer its operatorship of the Wisting oil discovery in the Barents Sea to Equinor for the development phase. OMV made the discovery offshore Norway in 2013.
Hurricane Energy: Light oil discovery at Warwick West
Hurricane Energy has made an oil discovery at its Warwick West well in the West of Shetland region.
Popular news, November 25 – December 1, 2019
Offshore Energy Today’s most popular news from the past week.
Heimdal incident: Condition of one worker ‘serious but not life-threatening’
The condition of one of the employees who were injured in yesterday’s work-related incident on Heimdal is serious but not life-threatening, Equinor informed on Friday afternoon.
Northern Drilling sees improvement in harsh environment market demand visibility
Northern Drilling is seeing an improvement in demand visibility for the harsh environment drilling rigs, which is supportive of continued recovery and further rate increase in the market.
Offshore safety watchdog launches investigation into Heimdal incident
Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has launched an investigation into a serious work accident on the Equinor-operated Heimdal field in the North Sea on November 28, 2019.
Northern Drilling in dispute with South Korean yard over canceled drillship
Offshore drilling contractor Northern Drilling and South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) are in dispute over a canceled drillship order.
Offshore safety body spots irregularities on Gina Krog
Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found irregularities during an audit of Equinor’s Gina Krog platform.
Two Equinor workers injured in serious incident in North Sea
Two Equinor employees were injured in a serious work-related incident on board the Heimdal platform in the North Sea on Thursday 28 November.
Consent for ConocoPhillips to use West Linus rig on Tor
Oil major ConocoPhillips has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for production drilling on the Tor field using the West Linus drilling rig.
Norway employs West Hercules rig to find dry well for CO2 storage
Equinor, Shell, and Total have begun drilling the 31/5-7 Eos wildcat well to investigate whether the reservoir in the deep Johansen Formation was suitable for storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) as part of the Northern Lights project.
Shares in new North Sea ‘investing company’ start trading on London market
Shares in Longboat Energy, a new North Sea player created by the former management team of Faroe Petroleum, started trading on the London’s AIM market on Thursday.
i3 Energy wraps up this year’s drilling program with ‘very large oil field’ potential
i3 Energy has concluded its 2019 drilling program in the UK North Sea with all three wells drilled within budget. i3 will now prepare for a multi-well appraisal planned for the summer of 2020.