Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG)'s Vlissingen facility has completed the HelWin bèta jacket for client Siemens and the structure has set sail to its offshore location in the German sector of the North Sea. After the EPC (engineering,procurement…
Shell and its partners on the Ormen Lange license have postponed plans for a ground-breaking compression project on the giant field, halting ongoing concept select work, citing costs and reservoir data. Ormen Lange, Norway’s second largest field and producing since October 2007…
Statoil and its partners have made a 20-75MM boe gas and oil discovery in the Valemon Nord prospect in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The discovery wells 34/10-54 S and 34/10-54 A, in production license 050, drilled by the semisubmersible drilling rig Transocean Leader…
A normally unattended self-installing floating tower (SIFT) design has been selected as the development option for the North Sea Fyne development, the operator has revealed. The design has been supplied by GMC Inc., which has a partnership with Enegi Oil…
Wintershall Norge has made a gas and condensate discovery in the Solberg well in the Norwegian Sea. Exploration well 6407/1-7 and the subsequent sidetrack 6407/1-7A, in production license 475, encountered gas and condensate in the main target lower Cretaceous Lange formation…
NorYards AS has signed a more than NOK650 million contract with NFDS 2 Offshore AS for outfitting and commissioning a new and modern anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS). The modern anchor handling vessel is a sister ship of the anchor…
AGR has been awarded a new well management services contract by OMV (Norge). The contract, which is for three years, with the option of two further years, also covers delivery of other drilling and well engineering services for complete well construction…
GDF SUEZ E&P Norge's wildcat well 7218/8-1 on the Byrkje prospect in the Barents Sea has been classified as dry, with traces of gas. The well, in production licence 607, well was drilled about 65km southwest of the oil and gas discovery…
Partners in the Pil exploration well 6406/12-3 S have carried out “a highly successful production test” (Drill Stem Test/DST) on the well, on the Norwegian Sea’s Halten Terrace. The well flowed at 6710 bo/d of 37° API oil from a 56/64in…
Aker Solutions has won a contract worth more than US$300 million from Petrobras to supply eight manifolds that alternately inject water and gas to increase oil recovery from Brazil's deepwater offshore fields. The subsea manifolds, designed for 2500m water depth…
Aberdeen-based independent explorer Xcite Energy Resources (XER) has agreed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to use a self-installing platform design on its North Sea Bentley field. The MOU, with engineering firms AMEC and Ove Arup & Partners…
UK based engineering group Houlder, has launched a new venture to support clients headquartered in the US. This follows an increasing number of successful global projects for oil majors, operators and service providers. Houlder Americas Inc…
Sevan Marine has agreed to sell a 49% stake in Norwegian firm KANFA AS to Technip Norge for an undisclosed amount. The deal will leave Sevan Marine with 51% ownership in KANFA AS, with Technip owning the remaining 49%. KANFA is an…
CGG says it has started acquiring the largest broadband multi-client 3D survey ever shot offshore Norway. The BroadSeisTM/BroadSourceTM 3D Horda survey will also be the largest broadband multi-client program CGG has acquired in NW Europe…
The new accommodation and field centre platform on the Ekofisk Complex - now the largest accomodation platform in the North Sea - was officially opened on Tuesday, 1 April. The new platform, now entering use, is the largest accomodation platform in the North Sea…