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Ineos lifts restriction on oil & gas flows feeding into Forties pipeline
All restrictions on the flow of oil and gas from platforms feeding into the Forties pipeline system have been fully lifted.
Total to take operatorship in Irish license
French oil company Total has exercised its option to farm into and take operatorship of Providence Resource-operated license offshore Ireland.
Siem Offshore to Start Round Two of Beatrice Inter-Array Cable Works
Siem Offshore Services’ cable laying vessel Siem Aimery has installed 15 inter-array cables during the first cable installation campaign on the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.
Siem Offshore to Start Round Two of Beatrice Inter-Array Cable Works
Siem Offshore Services’ cable laying vessel Siem Aimery has installed 15 inter-array cables during the first cable installation campaign on the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.
CapeOmega closes Njord Gas Infrastructure deal
CapeOmega has completed the acquisition of Njord Gas Infrastructure Holding AS, a Norwegian company whose purpose is to own and operate its participating interest of 8.036% in Gassled.
Photo of the Day: Dragados Lines Up Hornsea One Jackets
Ørsted has shared a photo of four substation jacket foundations currently under construction at Dragados Offshore’s yard in Spain for the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm.
Apache reopens Forties field following completion of pipeline repair works
Apache restarted production from its Forties field in the UK North Sea on Saturday, December 23, following a shutdown due to unscheduled maintenance of an onshore section of the Forties pipeline.
Russian Cargo Ship Stuck off Portsmouth
Due to bad weather conditions, plans to move a cargo ship which is listing off Portsmouth were put on hold.
32 Beatrice Foundations In Place
Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Oleg Strashnov installed the 32nd jacket foundation on the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in Outer Moray Firth on 24 December, a Weekly Notice of Operations shows.
Kawasaki Heavy, Island Offshore cancel well intervention vessel order
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has decided to terminate the shipbuilding contract for Island Offshore’s top hole drilling/light well intervention vessel, Island Navigator.
Ineos partially restarts Kinneil. Forties flows to be increased gradually
Ineos has partially re-started the Kinneil facility following the completion of the mechanical repair works on the Forties pipeline system.
Austrian natural gas imports from Russia hit record high
Austria’s imports of natural gas from Russia reached 8.25 billion cubic meters of gas, beating the record set in 2005 when the country imported 6.8 bcm.
On this day: 28 years of production from Veslefrikk
Twenty eight years ago today, the Statoil-operated Veslefrikk field located offshore Norway started production. Statoil is the operator of the Veslefrikk field with an 18% interest and its partners are Petoro (37%), Repsol Norge (27%), DEA Norge (13.5%), and Wintershall (4.5%). The Veslefrikk is an
Rystad: 2017 proves to be record low year for discovered resources
Intelligence group Rystad Energy concluded last week that 2017 was yet another record low year for discovered conventional volumes globally. Less than seven billion barrels of oil equivalent has been discovered YTD, Rystad Energy reported last Thursday. “We haven’t seen anything like this since the