Innovation, ingenuity and perseverance must take centre stage in the current oil and gas environment, attendees at a breakfast in Aberdeen heard this week. The event, jointly hosted by RBS and Scottish accountancy and business advisory firm…
Work on UK independent Ithaca Energy's Greater Stella Area (GSA) floating production unit is reaching a peak in Remontowa's Polish shipyard. Ithaca says manning levels on the FPF-1 vessel have been at historic highs over recent weeks…
Engineering and project management firm Atkins has own a pre-front end engineering and design decommissioning contract with Centrica Energy. The five-year agreement will see Atkins provide UK-based Centrica with engineering and design services…
Premier Oil is planning to make sanction decisions on its Falkands Sea Lion and Norwegian Vette developments in 2016, the operator said this morning. The plans come as the firm says it is making “improved progress” on the completion…
UK-based Independent Oil and Gas has started a 3D seismic remapping project over its southern North Sea gas portfolio. The project is being carried out on a phased basis, with the first results expected by the end of May. The first phase will cover IOG's core southern North Sea area…
In the second installment of a two part series, Elaine Maslin takes a look at what all the clamor about standardization is, what the industry is planning to do about it and what the results have been to date. Image from DNV GL…
The new UK North Sea regulator the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has unveiled its core leadership team, including directors of exploration and production, technology and projects, policy and performance and a CFO. The new directors, who will be in post by mid-June…
Acteon company Offshore Installation Services (OIS) has been awarded a contract to decommission multiple wells in the North Sea by operator Centrica Energy. The initial campaign includes six subsea wells in the central North Sea, in categories 2…
Denmark headquartered Maersk Oil has made a hydrocarbon discovery on the high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) Xana-1X exploration in the Danish Sector of the North Sea. The Xana-1X well was drilled in license 9/95 in 68m water depth…
Fairfield Energy has announced plans to decommission its Dunlin Alpha platform in the North Sea not much longer than a year after it took over duty holder responsibilities for the platform. Production from all Dunlin cluster fields will…
Bergen Group terminated a deal with Semco Maritime to sell the company’s yard facility just before closing occurred. The deal was announced on 13 April 2015 and the transaction was subject to final closing no later than 30 April 2015…
Tata Steel says it has become the first company to manufacture a submerged arc welded longitudinal (SAWL) line pipe installed through reeling method in the North Sea. Manufactured at Tata Steel’s Hartlepool 42in. UOE mill, the pipe was…
James Fisher Offshore, part of James Fisher and Sons, announces that it has reached an agreement with administrators KPMG to acquire a number of subsea assets free from encumbrances from Specialist Subsea Services. The investment compliments…
ABT Oil & Gas (ABTOG) has signed a Collaboration Agreement Aberdeen based engineering firm Apollo Offshore Engineering on its marginal field delivery consortium. Apollo will join the Marginal Field Delivery Consortium providing expertise…
UK supermajor BP awarded Cape a US$153.5 million two-year contract to supply services on six North Sea assets and the Forties Pipeline Systems. According to Cape, the company will provide a range of core services, including access, insulation…