
Norwegian vessel owner Solstad Offshore has won contract extensions for two of its vessels with oil companies Equinor and Aker BP.

Norwegian oilfield services provider Aker Solutions has signed an engineering, procurement, construction, and integration (EPCI) contract for a high-voltage electrical boiler package as part of the electrification of Lundin Energy’s Edvard Grieg platform.

Archer has secured a four-year contract extension with Apache for the provision of platform drilling operations & maintenance services in the UK North Sea.

Offshore vessel operator Eidesvik Offshore has been awarded a contract extension for its Viking Lady platform supply vessel.

The UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has appointed a new area manager for the Central North Sea which, starting the role in September 2020.

Neptune Energy and its joint venture partners BP and JAPEX have started the subsea construction phase of the Seagull tie-back project, which is located in the North Sea.

To adjust and transform to cleaner sources of energy, the world’s largest oil and gas firms could sell or swap oil and gas assets of more than $100 billion, Rystad said.

BP has been doing its part to unlock the value of technology and tap into its benefits. This has become especially noticeable during 2020 with plans to become a net-zero company by 2050.

Norwegian offshore safety regulator, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has completed its investigation of the incident on West Mira rig where the lower marine riser package (LMRP) was unintentionally disconnected.

Aker BP has awarded further work to the Odfjell Drilling-owned Deepsea Stavanger rig, scheduled to be done upon the rig’s return from a gig in South Africa with Total.

Oil major Shell has launched a major cost-cutting drive to save cash and overhaul its business in preparation for the energy transition.

The Norwegian government has submitted a proposal to Norwegian Parliament to launch “the greatest climate project in Norwegian industry ever” –carbon capture and storage (CCS) project named Longship.

Offshore driller Odfjell Drilling has received a notice of early termination from oil major BP for the charter of the Deepsea Aberdeen rig but, concurrently, secured work for the rig with Wintershall Dea.

Five years after the kick off, the subsea compression system covering an area the size of a football field, at Equinor-operated Åsgard development in the Norwegian Sea, still runs like clockwork. The entire Åsgard field is one of the largest developments on the Norwegian continental shelf, embracing