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North Sea mega-Mariner jacket installed - video

Sep 01, 2015

Statoil’s largest ever steel jacket has been laid to rest on the sea bed 150km east of the Shetland Isles, marking a major milestone in the Mariner heavy oil field development.  The 22,400-tonne mariner jacket, which stands some 134m high…

Sembcorp wins multi-platform Culzean contract

Sep 01, 2015

Singapore-based Sembcorp Marine has won the engineering, procurement and construction contract for Maersk Oil's US$4.5 billion Culzean development in the North Sea.  Under the $1 billion contract, the firm's subsidiary SMOE will build the development's central processing facility…

Mariner jacket moving on to North Sea

Aug 11, 2015

Statoil’s largest steel jacket in its history is on its two-week, 1835 nm journey to the North Sea after setting sail from the Spanish Dragados yard on 10 August. Mariner steel jacket sails away…

Statoil picks Tenaris for Mariner

Jun 23, 2015

Statoil has awarded Tenaris the contract for the supply of casing, tubing and all related services for the Mariner project. Discovered in 1981, Mariner is the largest field development on the UK Continental Shelf in more than a decade…

Baker Hughes awarded Mariner contract

Jun 11, 2015

Statoil awarded an eight-year contract for the design and supply of production chemicals and services for the Mariner Field to Baker Hughes in the UK. Contract start date is anticipated to start in July 2015 and also includes an extension option of four years…

Drydocks wins Layang FPSO turret contract

May 14, 2015

Drydocks World is to build an external turret mooring systems for JX Nippon’s Layang field floating production vessel offshore Malaysia.  Under a contract with UK-based naval architects Orwell Offshore, Dubai-based Dydocks World is expected to supply the turret system by Q1 2016…

Apache’s Phoenix gets resource appraisal

Apr 07, 2015

Apache Energy’s Phoenix area off Western Australia is estimated to contain 48-232 MMbbl of contingent and prospective recoverable oil, according to an independent technical advisor. Map from Carnarvon…

Deepwater Malaysia discovery for JX Nippon

Apr 07, 2015

Japanese exploration firm JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration's Malaysia subsidiary is planning two further exploration wells offshore Malaysia after confirming a deepwater oil discovery. The Bestari-1 exploration well, the first drilled in Deepwater Block R (the Block)…

GDF Suez hits at Dalziel

Mar 12, 2015

GDF Suez E&P UK made a new discovery at the Dalziel structure in the UK Central North Sea. The Transocean Galaxy II jackup. From Transocean.  Well 22/16-6 flowed at rates in excess of 8000…

New ERRV for Statoil's Mariner

Mar 09, 2015

Statoil has chosen Sentinel Marine to provide a new multi-role emergency response and rescue vessel (ERRV) to support operations on the Mariner field on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Aberdeeen-based Sentinel Marine owns and operates…

Statoil selects Asco for Mariner services

Feb 26, 2015

Statoil has chosen UK-based oilfield support services firm Asco for its supply base and warehousing services on the UK North Sea Mariner field. The contract comes under two five-year contracts, with extension options, due to start in Q1 2016…

BP starts up Kinnoull

Dec 30, 2014

Production from the Kinnoull field in the North Sea has started, operator BP said this morning. The Kinnoull field, BP's seventh and final major project in 2014, has been developed as part of the Andrew field area rejuvenation, extending production there by a decade…

Orwell/FES win FPSO turret contract

Dec 24, 2014

Orwell Offshore and FES International have landed a multi-million dollar contract from TH Heavy Engineering Berhad for the supply of an external turret system for the FPSO Layang. The combined contract value is estimated at US$40 million…

Schlumberger inks Mariner deal

Dec 19, 2014

Schlumberger Oilfield UK has been awarded the contract to provide integrated drilling and well services on the Statoil-operated Mariner heavy oil development in the UK North Sea. Mariner is the largest field development on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) in more than a decade…

DNV GL gets Culzean contract

Nov 21, 2014

Maersk Oil North Sea UK (MOUK) awarded DNV GL a multi-million dollar contract for the Culzean field development project. The Culzean project rendering. From KBR.   Upon the terms of agreement…

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