AkerBP has started plugging operations at the Valhall field, in what the company is calling a pioneer project that involves fully powering the Maersk Invincible drilling rig from shore. Image of…
Total will expand its deepwater exploration and production efforts to Ireland’s offshore after entering options to acquire interests and operatorships in southern Porcupine Basin licenses. Image: Providence…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) on Wednesday granted Statoil Petroleum AS the exploration drilling permit for the Kayak prospect in the Barents Sea. Statoil will use the Songa Enabler to drill wildcat well 7219/9-2 in production license 532…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Statoil the go-ahead to drill the Carmen prospect in the Norwegian Sea. Statoil will use the semisubmersible Deepsea Bergen to drill Carmen, located on Block 6507/8 in 358 m of water at Haltenbanken…
Decades of life yet are left in the UK North Sea, but it's still all about reducing costs and finding more efficiencies, including through use of data. Industry leaders gave these views at Oil & Gas UK’s Oil and Gas Industry Conference…
Fugro Venturer. Image from Fugro. With a maiden voyage that takes her to the deepwaters of Ireland’s Atlantic margin and the far North of the Barents Sea, the Fugro Venturer is the newest of Fugro’s successful purpose-designed…
Harke Jan Meek. Image from IMCA. The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has appointed Harke Jan Meek, chief commercial officer at Heerema Marine Contractors as its new president and chairman of the board…
Providence Resources has received consent to transfer 30% equity in FEL 2/14 to Capricorn Ireland Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cairn Energy. Providence gained the approval from Ireland's Minister of Communications, Climate Action and Environment…
Stena Atlantic Ltd., an affiliate of Stena Drilling, notified Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) last week, that it has exercised its right to cancel their contract for the construction of the Stena MidMAX, a dynamically positioned harsh environment semisubmersible drilling unit…
Two new Calls for Ideas have been launched to identify, support and fund robotics-based solutions to reduce inspection costs, and to unlock marginal resources on UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Some ca.£1 million in funding is available for each area from the the Aberdeen-based…
Services firm Cape has been awarded contracts on Inpex's Ichthys LNG project and for work for BP in the North Sea. Cape Industrial Services secured two contracts, extending existing contracts, with BP in the UK North Sea for a further three years…
Engie E&P Norge has awarded Schlumberger company WesternGeco two contracts for acquisition and processing of towed 4D seismic data over the Gjøa license, in the northern part of the Norwegian North Sea. The acquisition will be performed with the vessel WesternGeco Magellan…
Buchan Alpha. Image from Veolia Twitter. Repsol Sinopec Resources UK awarded Veolia the decommissioning job of the Buchan Alpha facility in the UK North Sea, which has ceased production on 12 May 2017 as planned…
Keppel FELS and Borr Drilling have agreed on construction contracts for the five jackup rigs currently being built by Keppel for Transocean, following this week’s earlier announcement of Transocean’s jackup fleet sale to Borr. Image from Transocean…
Siem Offshore will purchase the 49% ownership in Siem Meling Offshore DA (SMODA) held by O.H. Meling. Once the deal is done, Siem Offshore will own 100% of the company SMODA. As part of the agreement, the Siddis Mariner vessel will be sold by SMODA to another company owned by O…