Operations & Maintenance
NPD Spotlights Åsgard Subsea Compression Technology
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has awarded its improved oil recovery (IOR) prize for 2016 to the licensees of the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea for their subsea wet gas compressor. This will yield almost 50 million standard cubic metres (306 million barrels of oil equivalent) in addit
E.ON Piles On Rampion Foundations and Noise Complaints
E.ON’s Rampion Project Team has completed piling work on 55 out of 116 foundations on the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm, off the coast of Sussex, UK. The update on the project was revealed in E.ON’s apology to residents living near the Sussex coastline who once again complained about suffering sl
Wood Group Lands DONG Energy Deal
Wood Group has been awarded a new engineering services framework agreement by DONG Energy, to support their oil & gas assets across the Danish, Norwegian and UK continental shelves. Front end development, maintenance and modifications, engineering, and late life and decommissioning services, for bot
Statoil Starts Up Gullfaks Satellite
Statoil’s Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen (GRD) field came online, below budget and ahead of schedule, Norwegian oil and gas major informed on Tuesday. The project, previously scheduled for start-up on Christmas Eve this year, is more than NOK 1 billion below the estimate of the plan for development and opera
WATCH: Mariner FSU Parks at Nigg Energy Park
The Mariner B vessel was this weekend safely berthed at Global Energy Group’s Nigg Energy Park, north of Inverness, after completing the 15,800 nautical miles journey from the Samsung construction yard in South Korea. Mariner B, the floating storage unit (FSU) for the Statoil-operated Mariner field
PHOTO: First Shah Deniz 2 Jacket Ready for Installation
A jacket for one of the Shah Deniz Stage 2 platforms has sailed away from the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory (BDJF) for offshore installation. The transportation, launch, positioning and pile installation activities of the Production and Risers (PR) platform jacket structure are expect
Iberdrola to Move Wikinger Corporation to Sassnitz
Iberdrola plans to relocate the Wikinger project corporation to Sassnitz, Jürgen Blume, director of Iberdrola Renovables Offshore Deutschland GmbH, said during the recent topping-off event of the wind farm’s operations building at the Port of Sassnitz-Mukran. “We have always been emphasizing that we
Armada Kraken FPSO on Schedule for North Sea Field
Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M)’s wholly-owned subsidiary Keppel Shipyard is said to be on track to deliver a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to Armada Kraken, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bumi Armada. The naming ceremony of the FPSO, Armada Kraken, took place at Kepp
GC Rieber Sending Polar Empress on Kara Sea Mission
GC Rieber Shipping , through its subsidiaries, has entered into a time charter agreement for seismic acquisition and seismic QC services, with Sovcomflot subsidiary OOO SCF Geo. The agreement will see Norwegian offshore vessels provider utilize its 22-streamer ice-classed vessel Polar Empress. Accor
Wood Group Wins Utgard-Sleipner Subsea Tieback Detailed Design Work
Wood Group has been awarded the detailed design scope of the subsea tieback from the Utgard gas and condensate field to the Sleipner facilities, in the Norwegian North Sea. The $1-million workscope is the first call off under the master service agreement (MSA) signed in May 2016. Effective immediate
Trelleborg to Set Up New Production Line for Subsea Market Materials
Trelleborg’s offshore operation in Norway is expanding its production capability with a new manufacturing line. The addition will complement its current range of thermal insulation materials by adding fusion bonded epoxy (FBE) powder coating and polypropylene (PP) to its portfolio. Hans Leo Hals, ma
Olympic Ship Writes Down Fleet Value
Norwegian provider of subsea and offshore construction vessels, Olympic Ship, has seen red at the end of second quarter of 2016 on fleet write-downs and revenue drop of some 31 percent when compared to the prior-year quarter. The company reported second-quarter 2016 consolidated net revenues of NOK
CGG, Lundin Present New Solution for Seismic Acquisition
CGG has launched its latest offshore broadband seismic technology, the so-called TopSeis, specifically designed to overcome the intrinsic lack of near offsets inherent in 3D towed-streamer seismic. According to CGG, the lack of near offsets leads to an inability to image shallow geological features,
Norwegian Offshore Developments See $14.5 Bln Cost Drop
The price tag for developing a field on the Norwegian shelf has declined by an average of more than 40 per cent since the autumn of 2014, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s (NPD’s) analysis of eight planned developments that are approaching start-up. The decline is a result of a comb