
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for wells located in the Norwegian Sea.

Ampelmann has secured a contract with Olympic Shipping to support topside commissioning work on Ithaca Energy’s FPF-1 offshore semi-submersible in the North Sea.

Spirit Energy has given another three years of life with an additional £13 million ($16.7Mn) investment to its York gas field in the Southern North Sea.

Oilfield services provider Petrofac has been awarded a two-year contract with NEO Energy, which doubled Petrofac’s UK portfolio.

Global oil and gas project sanctioning in 2020 has made a colossal drop in comparison to 2019 levels with Norway, and somewhat Russia, attempting to increase the total sanctioning value.

The upcoming partial return of curtailed OPEC+ oil production from August is set to create a new four-month supply glut of around 170 million barrels, a Rystad Energy analysis reveals.

OMV is the process of concluding the drilling of an appraisal well on the Hades gas/condensate discovery in the Norwegian Sea.

Hurricane Energy has stabilised production from its Lancaster field following the commissioning of the electric submersible pumps on two producing wells.

TAQA Bratani has filed its decommissioning programs for the Tern and North Cormorant platform topsides, located in the UK North Sea, to the UK authorities.

Equinor sank to the red in the second quarter of the year as its revenues were halved amid Covid-19 pandemic and low oil prices.

Repsol booked a loss in the second quarter of the year after being forced to re-evaluate its upstream assets due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the low oil price environment.

UK authorities have approved Shell’s decommissioning plan for the Brent Alpha jacket, located in the UK sector of the North Sea.

Neptune Energy has successfully installed subsea oil and gas production flowlines and gas lift flowlines for its Duva & Gjøa P1 developments in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

Hit by the Covid-19 downturn, the oilfield service market is not likely to rebound to last year’s activity level until 2023, according to a Rystad Energy analysis.