Project & Tenders
Wintershall in small oil discovery near Vega (Norway)
Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 248, is in the process of completing the drilling of a wildcat and appraisal well, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), the wildcat well 35/11-18 and the appraisal 35/11-18 A have been d
IOG inks Skipper well management contract with AGR
Independent Oil and Gas plc (IOG), the North Sea-focused oil and gas company, has executed a well management contract with AGR Well Management Limited for the drilling of the appraisal well on Skipper, in the UK North Sea. The well is on track to spud in late January or early February 2016 as IOG re
Statoil hands out Johan Sverdrup pipeline contracts
Norwegian oil and gas company, Statoil, has awarded three contracts which cover line pipe, coating and pipe installation of the Johan Sverdrup export pipelines. Johan Svedrup field is located in the North Sea offshore Norway and it is operated by Statoil. The overall value of the contracts is slight
Statoil Hands Out Three New Johan Sverdrup Jobs
Statoil has, on behalf of the Johan Sverdrup partners, awarded contracts for the linepipe, coating and pipe installation of the Johan Sverdrup export pipelines. The total contract value is estimated at slightly less than NOK 2.5 billion (approx. $288 million), the three contracts cover both the oil
Veidekke takes part in Johan Sverdrup electrification
Veidekke Entreprenør AS has signed a contract with Aibel AS to undertake work at the onshore facility near Kårstø, which will provide electricity to the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. The value of the contract is NOK 150 million ($17.1 million). Electrification of oil and gas installations w
UK: EnQuest gets approval for North Sea oil field development
EnQuest, a UK-based petroleum exploration and production company, has informed that its Scolty/Crathes development, in the UK North Sea, has been approved and sanctioned. Scolty and Crathes oil fields are located in Blocks 21/8a, 21/12c and 21/13a of the central North Sea sector of the UK continenta
Fugro Positioning for PGS Seismic Fleet
Fugro has been awarded a three-year contract by Norwegian seismic player PGS for the provision of precise satellite positioning systems for its entire seismic vessel fleet. According to the company, Fugro will supply PGS vessels with a number of completely independent Global Navigation Satellite Sys
Atlantis, JDR Ink Collaboration Agreement
Atlantis Resources has entered into a 5-year Collaboration Agreement with JDR Cable Systems effective from 31 December 2015. Atlantis and JDR will look to develop solutions for storage, installation, monitoring, connection, termination and testing of offshore subsea cables as well as advancing the e
SPT Offshore Clinches Ophir WHP Deal
SPT Offshore has received the Letter of Intent (LOI) for the detailed design of the suction pile foundation, design supervision of the jacket and full transportation and installation (T&I) of the Ophir wellhead platform (WHP) from Muhibbah Engineering (M) Bhd. MEB Ophir Muhibbah is the EPCIC contrac
Subsea 7 Bags Rose and Stamford Decom Gig
Subsea 7 will provide decommissioning services for the second phase of Centrica’s Rose and Stamford gas field decommissioning programmes, located in the southern North Sea. This project is the latest call-off contract under a partnership frame agreement signed in 2005. Subsea 7 has partnership frame
Marathon Oil Awards Brae Engineering Contract to Ingen
Ingen Ideas, an Amec Foster Wheeler company, has landed a five-year multi-discipline engineering contract, worth approximately £8 million ($12 million) with Marathon Oil. The contract started in October 2015. It covers Marathon Oil’s Brae Complex in the North Sea and it has potential for two further
OSD Designs Two Austin Offshore RLWI/IMR Newbuilds
OSD-IMT, the UK division of Netherlands-based Offshore Ship Designers (OSD), is developing two IMT 9120 Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI)/IMR vessels for Austin Offshore, the shipping arm of Upstream Drilling, Singapore. The diesel-electric propulsion vessels are intended to carry out riserle
Tracerco Smart Tracers for Mariner Field
Tracerco, a subsidiary of Johnson Matthey, has secured a contract to provide smart tracer technology for flow measurement of six new wells in Statoil’s Maureen reservoir of the Mariner field in the UK North Sea. As part of field development, Tracerco’s smart tracers should enable fluid inflow measur
Shell starts construction of LNG bunker vessel
Royal Dutch Shell informed that STX Offshore & Shipbuilding has kicked off the construction of the specialized LNG bunker vessel with a steel cutting ceremony on Friday.