More than 300 oil service employees in Norway have gone on strike this morning after mediation talks yesterday were said to have failed. Industry Energy, a union which represents workers, claimed the Norwegian Oil & Gas association did…
Interest in new licenses in existing exploration plays offshore Norway has dropped by about a quarter. Some 33 companies have applied for licenses in Norway's 2016 awards in pre-defined areas licensing round, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said this morning…
A development by Fugro for its work class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) has been utilized successfully in cable lay touchdown monitoring operations at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. Fugro Symphony…
Maersk Oil UK has awarded fellow company Maersk Supply Service to provide decommissioning services for the Janice field in the North Sea. Janice A FPU. Images from Maersk Oil. Maersk Supply Service (MSS) will provide engineering…
French operator ENGIE E&P has made a 25-70 MMboe discovery in the Cara well in the Norwegian North Sea. The well was drilled using the Transocean Arctic semisubmersible, in 349m water depth. It is 6km northeast of the ENGIE-operated Gjøa field (pictured)…
German oil firm Wintershall has made a minor discovery near the Vega field in the Norwegian North Sea, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The discovery was made as part of a four-well drilling campaign in production license 248 F…
UK independent EnQuest's proposed deal with Delek Group over the sale of a stake in the Kraken development in the UK North Sea has fallen through. EnQuest said the two parties had been unable to reach an agreement and discussions have been terminated…
Maersk Oil has agreed to sell small stakes in the Scott and Telford fields in the North Sea and the Wytch Farm onshore field in England to new entrant RockRose Energy. Scott and Telford are operated by Nexen through the Scott platform…
Statoil and CHC Helicopter have celebrated the inaugural flight to the Mariner field, Statoil’s first operated field development on the UK continental shelf (UKCS). The flight left CHC’s Aberdeen Airport base this week heading for the Mariner B floating storage unit (FSU)…
Statoil has contracted Kvaerner for works including preparation and docking of it Njord A semisubmersible production facility under a project framework agreement (PFA) for the upgrade of the facility. The call-off work has an estimated value of US42…
UK independent Parkmead has increased its stake in its operated Perth and Dolphin oil fields in the Moray Firth area of the UK central North Sea. Perth and Dolphin are central to Parkmead's Perth-Dolphin-Lowlander (PDL) oil hub project…
Aker Solutions, Det norske oljeselskap and Subsea 7 have agreed on what the three companies are calling a 'one for all, all for one' collaboration alliance to work on developing the operator's subsea field portfolio. The move, which they…
UK independent Nobel Upstream has completed a deal to buy a 7.59% stake in the UK North Sea Maclure oil and gas field from Shell. Maclure was discovered in 1991 and put into production in 2002. Production in 2016 has averaged 8200 boe/d…
Norwegian firm Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) has been contracted to transport the Transocean Winner drilling rig to Turkey using a semisubmersible heavy lift vessel. It is expected that the rig will be floated onto the semisubmersible heavy lift vessel OHT HAWK…
North Sea independent EnQuest has cut the cost of its Kraken heavy oil development in the North Sea by a further US$150 million, thanks to progress on the drilling campaign and subsea workscopes. The cost of the development, which will see a floating production…