Sterling Resources Ltd. has announced that the first exploration well to be drilled by the Muridava Concession owners on 10th round licensing Block 27 in Romania’s Black Sea has completed drilling operations and has been abandoned. The Muridava-1 well, in which Sterling holds a 40 percent interest,
Remedial construction works at the London Array Offshore Wind Farm have been launched and will be performed until August 2014. The work is being done at a number of turbines locations. Red7Marine Offshore Ltd is undertaking diving and construction work within the London Array site. Operations will b
GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd announce a new gas discovery in the UK Southern North Sea (SNS). The Cepheus 44/12a-6 exploration well encountered a gas column within the Permian Lower Leman Sandstone which was the primary reservoir target. The well was spudded on 9 March 2014 and drilled to a total measured de
Trapoil, the independent oil and gas exploration, appraisal and production company focused on the UK Continental Shelf region of the North Sea, has provided a corporate and operational update. Trapoil’s management is in the process of determining how best to create value from the group’s existing ca
An infield survey is underway at Walney 1 and 2 offshore wind farms, approximately 15 km off Walney Island in the UK’s part of the Irish Sea. A 14-meter long survey vessel Argus-G has been fitted with sounding equipment for the task. The vessel started carrying out the survey, as well as the inspect
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 34/6-3S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 34/6-3S will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, after concluding drilling of wildcat well 35/9-6 S for RWE Dea Norge AS
Maersk Oil UK Limited has received approval from the UK and Norwegian authorities to develop the Flyndre and Cawdor fields. The fields lie approximately 293 km South East of Aberdeen in blocks 30/13 and 30/14 of the UK North Sea (Flyndre and Cawdor) and block 1/5 of the Norwegian North Sea (Flyndre
The BLG LOGISTICS Group will present its know-how from 11 to 12th of June at the RenewableUK exhibition in Glasgow. BLG has developed innovative logistics concepts for the wind energy industry via its BLG Wind Energy Logistics business. The Wind Energy Logistics division specializes in transporting,
Three Damen companies were involved in the successful Polarcus Naila refit: Damen Shiprepair & Conversion yard ‘Shipdock Amsterdam’, steel construction company ‘Niron Staal’ and Damen Marine Components (DMC). As a partner and supplier of Caterpillar Marine (formerly Berg Propulsion), DMC has provide
OAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading steel and steel-related mining companies, has begun shipments of 813 mm diameter pipes for the South Stream Offshore Pipeline. The pipes are manufactured at the Izhora Pipe Mill, part of Severstal’s Russian Steel division. The Mill’s first batch of 39.0 mm w
A privately held investment fund based in the Netherlands has seen revenues from its portfolio of companies in the North-east grow by 900% in three years. Paradigm Group BV, which was established in late 2009 with a focus on investing in upstream technology, reported a rise in turnover from £1.8mill
Materials technology and engineering specialists Aubin is set to transform subsea lifting after the successful completion of its first operational trial of its LiquiBuoy system. The company conducted rigorous testing of its liquid gel technology at The Underwater Centre in Fort William to prove its
Tullow Oil plc has announced that exploration well 31/2-21S which was targeting the Gotama prospect, offshore Norway, did not encounter reservoir quality sandstones in the Upper Jurassic main target. The well encountered reservoir quality sandstones in the secondary targets, but these intervals are
The planned interconnector between Norway and the UK will fall under UK’s new regulatory framework for electricity interconnectors. This follows from the criteria the British authorities submitted for consultation 23 May. The UK regulator Ofgem announced 23 May the framework conditions for revenue r
