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Petrofac Extends Contract with BP for North Sea Portfolio

Apr 15, 2024

Oilfield services provider Petrofac has secured a contract extension with BP to continue work on its North Sea portfolio.Maintenance and engineering services will be provided under the terms of the three-year, multi-million-dollar contract.“Petrofac has supported bp in the North Sea for 15 years…

Energean Takes Control of Wenlock and Tors Decommissioning Project

Apr 03, 2024

Oil and gas company Energean has become the operator of the Tors and Wenlock fields as the decommissioning work continues as planned.As part of the 2020 acquisition of Edison Exploration & Production, Energean acquired majority equity stakes in two fields in the Southern UK North Sea…

Vattenfall to Take Part in IJmuiden Ver Offshore Wind Tender in Netherlands

Mar 28, 2024

Vattenfall has decided to enter a bid for the sites, Alpha and Beta, of the Dutch IJmuiden Ver offshore wind tender.IJmuiden Ver consists of two sites, each with a 2 GW capacity. Plans for site Alpha focus on biodiversity criteria, while Beta is focused on system integration…

Petrofac Gets Contract Extension with ONEgas in UK

Mar 28, 2024

Oilfield services firm Petrofac has secured a contract extension with ONEgas West, a joint venture operated by Shell and Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM).The two-year brownfield Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract award extends the previous three-year contract…

Oil Producer APA Misses Quarterly Profit Estimates on North Sea Downtime

Feb 21, 2024

U.S. shale oil producer APA Corp missed Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday, hit by weaker North Sea production.Its North Sea production was hit by a temporary shutdown during the reported quarter at its Beryl Bravo offshore platform…

Indonesia to Offer More Energy Blocks in North Sumatra

Feb 20, 2024

Indonesia is looking to offer more oil and gas blocks in North Sumatra basin this year following a major discovery by Mubadala Energy in a bid to accelerate gas production, a senior energy ministry official said on Tuesday.The energy ministry…

Hollandse Kust (west) Alpha Offshore Substation Set for Wind Turbines Link-Up

Jan 11, 2024

The grid connection for Hollandse Kust (west) Alpha offshore substation is officially ready for commissioning after receiving grid readiness certificate three months ahead of schedule.This means that wind farm operator Ecowende can connect the wind turbines…

All Clear for Fincantieri’s Acquisition of Remazel Engineering

Dec 28, 2023

Advanced Technology Industrial Group, a company controlled by Alpha Private Equity, has reached an agreement for the sale of 100% of Remazel Engineering to Italian shipbuilding giant Fincantieri.The anticipated completion of the transaction…

Scotland: Hundreds of Offshore Drillers Balloted Over Working Rotas and Annual Leave

Oct 30, 2023

Scottish offshore trade union Unite said Friday that hundreds of Odfjell offshore drillers were being balloted in a dispute over working rotas and paid annual leave.The dispute involves crews on Equinor’s Mariner platform and TAQA platforms including Harding…

DeepOcean Completes Decommissioning Project on Dunlin Alpha Platform

Oct 03, 2023

Ocean services provider DeepOcean has completed a decommissioning project on Fairfield Energy’s Dunlin Alpha platform on the UK continental shelf. DeepOcean removed six subsea conductors and four vertical supports at varying water depths and…

Constellation's Alpha Star Offshore Rig Wins Multi-year Petrobras Contract

Sep 28, 2023

Brazilian oil and gas company Petrobras has awarded a long-term contract for offshore drilling contractor Constellation's semi-submersible drilling rig Alpha Star.According to Constellation, the  US$ 392 million contract has a firm duration of 1095 days plus a mutually agreed option…

Harbour Energy Tempers Production Outlook

Aug 24, 2023

Harbour Energy narrowed its annual production forecast range on Thursday, pulled down by a halt in sub-sea and platform drilling and a delay in some Beryl oilfield production wells coming online.Shares in Britain's largest North Sea oil and gas producer fell by more than 2% in morning trade…

Repsol Sinopec Taps Archer for $165 Million Decommissioning Project in North Sea

Aug 15, 2023

Repsol Sinopec Resources UK has awarded a $165 million decommissioning contract to Archer to execute the plug and abandonment (P&A) of 30 wells in the Fulmar Field and two wells in the Halley Field in the UK North Sea.The contract is a fully integrated P&A project…

M.A.R.S. Chosen for Sustainable Recycling of EnQuest's Heather Alpha Topsides

Jul 18, 2023

Offshore installation and decommissioning services firm Allseas has awarded Modern American Recycling Services Europe (‘M.A.R.S.’) a contract for project management and engineering, receipt with load-in assistance, dismantling, and disposal…

Remembering Piper Alpha: 35th Anniversary of Offshore Oil Disaster that Claimed 167 Lives

Jul 06, 2023

Thirty-five years ago, on July 6, 1988, one of the offshore oil and gas industry's worst-ever disasters struck  - the explosion of the Piper Alpha platform in the UK North Sea. To this day, the disaster is the worst ever in the industry by the number of lives lost…

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