The proposed £650 million tidal lagoon has taken another step forward with the announcement that formal consultation will begin on Thursday 4 July 2013 with a series of public exhibitions throughout Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. With the £2million community share offer open until 15 July, Tidal Lag
Ithaca Energy Inc. announces the execution of further UK exploration farm-out transactions. The Company has executed a farm-out agreement with a subsidiary of Edison International SpA (“Edison”) for a 25% interest in the licences containing the Handcross prospect and an agreement with Shell UK Limit
Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed final agreements establishing a joint Arctic Research Center (ARC) in Russia and an over-arching technology sharing agreement to support the companies’ joint ventures worldwide. Formally named the Arctic Research and Design Center for Continental Shelf Development, the
The Norwegian government on 12th June awarded the licences that form part of the 22nd round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Centrica Energy was awarded an operatorship and 50% ownership in the Scarecrow licence, block 719. This block opens up a new area for Centrica, and marks the beginnin
Det norskes physical production in May was 5,238 barrels per day. This is an increase of over 250 percent. The increase is mainly due to start up at the Jette field. Jette has produced eleven days in May. The production is divided on all 31 days in May. The wells on Jette have produced more [&hellip
Exxonmobil Exploration and Production Romania Limited Nassau (Bahamas) is in search of a contractor for the provision of services in connection with the realisation of the concept for the location of offshore pipelines in the Black Sea as part of the Domino Project. Services include: Offshore route
Following the results of the 22nd Licensing Round announced by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, RN Nordic Oil AS, a 100% indirect subsidiary of Rosneft, has been granted the award of a 20% participating interest in the license PL713 covering the area of 1,213 sq. km. License PL713 con
Project management and development engineering specialist EPC Offshore has signed an agreement with Total E&P UK Ltd (TEP UK) to provide support services at its natural gas and condensate discovery in the Atlantic. Edradour, located in Block 206/4 of the UK Continental Shelf, is expected to start pu
On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 CARIS’ former colleague, Björn van Vliet, took over command of the Royal Netherlands Navy hydrographic vessel Zr. Ms. Luymes. Having already worked for the Dutch Navy for 13 years, Björn started working at CARIS BV in June 2007 where he proved to be a very good colleague wit
OutSmart’s Offshore Operations Centre at Emden airport is completed. From now on, OutSmart’s team will monitor wind farms in the German North Sea from this brand new building. The Operations Centre will be manned 24/7 to operate offshore wind farms in the German North Sea and coordinate all maintena
The WINDEA Offshore GmbH & Co. KG has signed a Letter of Intent together with DAMEN Shipyards regarding the sale of one CTV new building in order to expand its all in all service portfolio for offshore wind farms. The vessel captivates through very good sea characteristics and high flexibility durin
Dolphin Geophysical’s high-end 3D seismic vessel, the Polar Duchess, will commence acquisition of new UtStord Multi-Client Survey in the Norwegian North Sea. The 3,500km2 survey is highly prefunded by industry and will commence around June 14th. Acquisition is scheduled to take approximately 3-4 mon
Cardiff-based marine renewable energy company, Tidal Energy Ltd, has entered into a partnership with the Port of Milford Haven to develop an operating base in readiness for the forthcoming sea trials of its DeltaStream demonstration unit in Ramsey Sound, Pembrokeshire. Under the agreement, facilitie
Statoil together with PL265 partners have drilled an important appraisal well in the western part of the Johan Sverdrup field. The well drilled by the Ocean Vanguard rig, consisted of a main wellbore 16/2-17S which was an appraisal in the western part of Johan Sverdrup, and a sidetrack 16/2-17B whic
