Fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy is closer to proving its Halifax discovery is linked to its Lancaster field, forming a single field, which would be the UK's largest undeveloped discovery on the UK Continental Shelf. Hurricane…
Wood Group has been awarded a US$50 million contract with Premier Oil, to deliver topside operations and maintenance services to the Balmoral floating production vessel (FPU) in the central North Sea and the Solan installation, West of Shetland…
North Sea independent explorer Jersey Oil & Gas says the Verbier prospect, due to be drilled by Statoil this summer, contains 162 MMboe mean prospective resources. The estimate - and increase on a previous 118 MMboe estimate - was made…
First production from Maersk Oil's Flyndre field, which straddles the UK and Norwegian North Sea boundaries, started yesterday (26 March). The field is a 25km single well subsea tieback to the Repsol Sinopec-operated Clyde platform, from which it is then exported via the Fulmar platform…
Aberdeen-based visual asset management (VAM) firm Return To Scene is conducting a pilot project for BP utilizing the latest generation of its visualization technology, R2S Mosaic. The technology, which adds spatial intelligence, among other advanced new capabilities…
The UK's Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) and Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) have joined forces to fund and support the development of innovations which could reduce costs, raise production efficiency, and improve safety and environmental performance…
Shining lights in the offshore oil and gas industry were recognized in a black tie dinner in Aberdeen last night. Some 500 industry professionals attending the SPE Offshore Achievement Awards, which celebrates innovation, collaboration…
Statoil has found oil and gas in a wildcat well, close to the Gullfaks field in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea. The well was drilled from the Gullfaks C platform to a structure east of the Gimle field, about 7km northeast of the…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted consent for continued use of the subsea facilities on the Sigyn field in the North Sea from the end of 2017 until the end of 2022. In its application, operator ExxonMobil refers to current estimates…
Maersk Oil reached an agreement with the government of Denmark that will see a full redevelopment plan for the Tyra project in the Danish North Sea. Tyra East. Image from Maersk Oil. The…
RockRose Energy has agreed a deal to acquire Egerton Energy Venture's share capital, in a move which will see it take over the firm's non-operated interests in the Galahad (27.8%) and Mordred (8.33%) gas fields in the southern North Sea. RockRose…
Statoil and its partners have agreed to move forward with a US$5.92-6.51 billion second phase development of the giant Johan Sverdrup field offshore Norway at a sub-$30/bbl break even price. The cost is half that estimated, when Statoil…
Semco Maritime has signed its largest contract with Maersk Oil and Gas to date for manpower to the operations in the North Sea. “The contract, which has a duration of five years, include both blue collared and white collared employees…
Atlantic Petroleum has agreed to sell its 25% stake in the Orlando development to Decipher Energy. The project is a planned subsea tieback to the Ninian platform, operated by CNR International. Decipher Energy was set up in September…
The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a five-year technical management and services agreement with Songa Offshore for four Cat-D type semisubmersible drilling rigs operating in the North Sea. Songa Encourage…