First gas has been exported from Cygnus Bravo, a satellite to Engie E&P UK's Cygnus field development in the UK southern North Sea. Cygnus Bravo is a wellhead platform 7km from Cygnus Alpha, to which first gas was exported on 1 August…
DONG Energy has agreed to sell 50% of Borkum Riffgrund 2, a 450 MW German offshore wind farm project, to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) in a deal worth nearly US$1.4 billion. Borkum Riffgrund 2 jacket sailaway…
Petrofac has been awarded a research study from the Energy Institute’s Process Safety Committee in a bid to help improve maintenance management performance across the oil and gas industry. Under the terms of the agreement, Petrofac will…
Statoil and partners OMV and Petoro have made a non-commercial gas discovery in the Gemini North well, northeast of the Wisting discovery in the Barents Sea. The well found a small amount of oil. The well was drilled in license PL 855…
The UK's Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has included seven additional blocks to the 30th Offshore Licensing Round that was announced in late-July. Image from iStock. OGA said that…
Statoil has received the green light from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) for a drilling permit for the Koigen Central wildcat (well 7317/9-1) in the Barents Sea. Map of 7317/9-1, Koigen Central…
A new entrant to the North Sea decommissioning market has been launched, with backing from a group of well known industry leaders and goals to attract US$263 million (£200 million) in investment and create 400 new jobs. Well-Safe Solutions wants to offer a cost-effective…
Apache has brought its Callater North Sea subsea tieback on stream ahead of schedule. Discovered in 2015, Callater, a six-well slot bundle tieback to the Beryl Alpha facility. It was among three fields, including Seagull and Corona…
The author of the report into the Piper Alpha disaster, 29 years ago, has today welcomed the launch of a new oil and gas resource to help prevent future offshore incidents. Encompassing the Future: Offshore Oil and Gas Operations is a multi-volume volume print and digital resource…
Lundin Petroleum is on the heels of beginning an active exploration drilling program in the southern Barents Sea with Ocean Rig’s Leiv Eiriksson semisubmersible. The program, which will begin with a multi-billion bbl prospect, includes spudding…
Centrica North Sea has awarded HydraWell a three-year frame contract to provide plug and abandonment (P&A) technology and services for the operator’s “A Fields” in the southern part of the North Sea. Centrica has recently submitted a…
Expro has been awarded a substantial contract from global oil and gas company Maersk Oil for subsea and well test services on two offshore units in the North Sea. The contract will extend the long-standing partnership between the two companies until 2020…
Maersk Oil awarded Simmons Edeco a contract to provide scheduled and unscheduled wellhead maintenance services for all Maersk Oil offshore wells in the Danish North Sea. Simmons Edeco will also refurbish valves and wellhead maintenance equipment…
Offshore marine and engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore is setting up a presence in the Netherlands, and has hired Jasper Bergsma as its head of business development in the country. Bergsma will be based in Amsterdam and in charge of marketing Aqualis Offshore’s services in the country…
Subsea vehicle firm Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) is relocating its servicing operations to the Port of Tyne’s Tyne Dock estate in South Shields (UK). The Tyneside-based remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) specialist will keep its head office…