Novenco Offshore has signed a contract with Polish shipyard Remontowa Shiprepair Yard for delivery of HVAC Equipment for the conversion of the tanker Hanne Knutsen to FSO for the Martin Linge field. Total E&P Norway will rent the Hanne Knutsen from KNOT FSO 1…
Subsea construction firm Bibby Offshore has made a move into the offshore wind array cable installation market. The company has purchased a power cable lay carousel from Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS), which will enable it to lay power cables for offshore wind projects from its vessels…
Wellhead servicing specialist Well-Centric is investing £300,000 in a significant expansion of its workshop facilities in Dyce, Aberdeen. The upgrade of the Dyce workshop will provide additional capacity and allows Well-Centric to offer its maintenance…
The UK North Sea is expected to dominate the decommissioning market from 2016-2040. How much it will cost depends on the success of vessels such as Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit, says Douglas-Westwood’s Ben Wilby. Pioneering Spirit with the Lorelay…
Automating data collection reduces operator exposure to offshore hazards, as well as making it easier, says Emerson Process Management’s Craig Abbott. Statoil’s Gullfaks’ B platform. Photo from Statoil…
ConocoPhillips is working to plug and abandon 130 wells in the southern North Sea, reducing the number of days it takes as it works through the program. But, it wants to improve further, Elaine Maslin reports. The GMS Endurance jackup…
Maersk Drilling has agreed to acquire the newbuild harsh environment jackup rig Hercules Highlander from struggling US drilling contractor Hercules Offshore. Hercules was awarded a five-year contract by Maersk Oil for use of the rig on the Culzean high-pressure…
GC Rieber Shipping has secured a cable lay charter with marine solutions and specialist engineering service provider James Fisher Marine Services for the SURF vessel Polar Onyx for services in the UK North Sea. The charter commences prompt and with options may last in excess of one month…
Det Norske has completed two appraisal wells on the West Cable discovery, nearby the Ivar Aasen field in the Norwegian North Sea. The wells, in license 001 Bm, 16/1-26 S and 16/1-26 A, were drilled about 1.5km southeast of the 16/1-7…
Aquatic Engineering & Construction has been subcontracted to Bibby Offshore to replace subsea infrastructure in the Central North Sea as part of BP’s US$1billion Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) life extension project. Image…
Maersk Oil awarded Boskalis Subsea a subsea IRM contract for the provision of air and saturation diving services from 2016 to 2019. Image of the DSV Constructor, from Boskalis. The…
Old and partly lost slots that were given up as providers of new production triggered new solutions for Statoil’s Snorre B. The result was three wells with an average price of US$21.6 million (NOK 170 million), compared to NOK 490 as reference base…
Oil major Shell has said it is to cut around 475 jobs from its UK and Ireland business by the end of this year as it further reduces its cost base. The firm has already announced more than 10,000 jobs cuts globally, including some 2800…
A new company focused on the plugging and abandonment of wells in the North Sea’s decommissioning sector has been set up by three oil and gas industry veterans. Aberdeen-based Well Decom has been launched to help companies manage costs…
Bibby Offshore, a leading subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, has announced a substantial contract win with Apache North Sea to provide subsea construction, ROV and diving services at the largest oil field in the North Sea…