Swedish offshore survey company Njord Survey has secured a contract from Energean UK to carry out post-decommissioning seabed surveys at the Wenlock, Garrow and Kilmar gas fields in the UK Southern North Sea.The contract covers seabed and environmental…
Bilfinger has secured a contract extension with TotalEnergies EP Denmark to provide inspection and access services across Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) offshore installations in the Danish North Sea until June 2028.The agreement extends a collaboration that began in 2021 and covers inspection…
Equinor crews are preparing to fix the company's Visund gas and oil platform, which remain offline following a fire earlier this week, a spokesperson for the Norwegian group said on Friday.The North Sea Visund platform shut production on Wednesday…
Norway's Equinor shut production at its Visund oil and gas platform on Wednesday due to a fire in an electrical system, a company spokesperson said in an emailed statement, adding that the flames had been put out.Between 70-80 people of the…
Wood Group offshore workers have started a fresh 48-hour strike affecting five Harbour Energy-operated platforms, with further industrial action planned later in November amid a dispute over pay and working conditions.The latest stoppage began on November 3 and is scheduled to end on November 4…
Offshore well decommissioning specialist Well-Safe Solutions has completed a plug and abandonment (P&A) campaign involving three subsea wells using its Well-Safe Defender semi-submersible rig, with operations carried out West of Shetland and in the northern North Sea…
Vår Energi and its partners have drilled a dry exploration well at the Jotun Deep prospect in the North Sea offshore Norway.Wildcat well 25/8-24 S was drilled in production license 1203, approximately 20 kilometers northwest of the Ringhorne installation and 190 kilometers west of Stavanger…
Kistos has signed a binding agreement with Petrogas North Sea to acquire a 30% non-operated interest in the Abbey and Baker gas fields in the UK Southern North Sea, targeting first gas production in 2029.The agreement, signed through Kistos Energy…
Aker BP and its partner Equinor have drilled a dry appraisal well at the Freke oil and gas discovery in the North Sea offshore Norway, failing to prove additional hydrocarbon volumes.The appraisal well, 15/6-18 S, was drilled in production license 1139…
Odfjell Drilling has secured an agreement to manage Beacon Pacific semi-submersible rig for a six-well drilling campaign with Serica Energy offshore UK, scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2027.Serica Energy has signed the drilling contract with rig owner Beacon Pacific Offshore…
Subsea7 has secured a contract from Aker BP for subsea pipeline and infrastructure work on the Lyra field development in the North Sea offshore Norway.The contract, worth between $150 million and $300 million, covers engineering, procurement…
Norwegian government agency Enova has awarded $424.5 million (NOK 3.94 billion) in funding to Fortius Offshore Wind and Fram Wind Solutions for two floating offshore wind projects that will see four large turbines installed off Karmøy over the next five years…
A new appraisal well at the Afrodite gas discovery near the Kvitebjørn field in the North Sea has revealed that recoverable gas volumes could be more than twice as large as previously estimated, with recoverable gas and condensate resources…
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.The permit is for wellbore 33/9-F-4 DH in production license 1214.Equinor operated the license with 17% working interest, along with partners Petoro with 30% stake…