North Sea News


Equinor’s Wildcat Well in North Sea Fails to Deliver

Jul 17, 2025

Equinor and its partners have drilled a dry well in the Garantiana NV prospect in the North Sea.Wildcat well 34/6-8 S was drilled in production license 554, which was awarded in 2010 (Awards in pre-defined areas 2009). This is the eighth well drilled in this production license…

Industry Partners Deliver Largest Unified OBN Dataset in Norwegian North Sea

Jul 15, 2025

Viridien, in collaboration with joint venture partners TGS and Axxis Multi-client, has completed the final imaging of OMEGA Merge, to deliver a single, seamless and unified high-quality dataset across the Heimdal Terrace, Utsira, and Sleipner Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) multi-client surveys…

Cost Surge Looms Without Urgent Well Decommissioning Action, NSTA Warns

Jul 11, 2025

Operators must immediately start tackling their backlog of wells that are already due for decommissioning to stop rigs leaving the North Sea and prevent billions of dollars of additional costs for themselves and taxpayers, industry regulator…

COSLInnovator Rig Cleared for Two-Well Drilling Op in North Sea

Jul 09, 2025

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for two wildcat wells in the North Sea, to be conducted with COSL’s COSLInnovator semi-submersible drilling rig.The drilling permit is for wellbores 34/8-20 S and 34/8-20 A in the license 554 E…

Equinor Hires Aker Solutions for Norwegian Oil and Gas Tie-In Scheme

Jul 09, 2025

Aker Solutions has secured a contract by Equinor to prepare the topside of Troll C to receive and process the production from the Fram Sør subsea tie-in project in the North Sea.Fram Sør will be developed as a subsea tie-in to Troll C and will…

Vår Energi, TechnipFMC to Fast-Track Development of North Sea O&G Fields

Jul 08, 2025

Vår Energi has entered into a collaboration agreement with TechnipFMC Norge for delivery of subsea projects utilizing its integrated model to fast-track future developments in the Gjøa area in the North Sea.Vår Energi has entered into the collaboration…

OKEA Spuds Exploration Well in North Sea

Jul 08, 2025

Norwegian oil and gas company OKEA has spudded an exploration well at the Brage field in the North Sea, offshore Norway, as part of the three-well drilling campaign.The exploration well, to be drilled in the southern part of the Talisker discovery…

EnerMech Nets Long-Term Servicing Contract for Triton FPSO

Jul 03, 2025

Energy industry services firm EnerMech has secured a multi-year contract from Dana Petroleum for the provision of offshore shutdown support services for the Triton floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.Dana hired EnerMech…

TotalEnergies to Keep West of Shetland Offshore Assets as Prax Files for Liquidation

Jul 03, 2025

The TotalEnergies West of Shetland offshore assets it agreed to sell to Prax Group last year remain under the French oil major's ownership, it said on Wednesday, so will not be subject to disposals resulting from liquidation proceedings affecting the British company…

DNO Inks Gas Offtake Deal with Engie, Secures $500M Financing Facility

Jul 02, 2025

Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO has entered into an offtake agreement with France’s Engie for its Norwegian gas production and secured a related offtake financing facility with a major U.S. bank for up to $500 million.The offtake agreement…

Equinor, Partners Greenlight $1.3B Johan Svedrup Oil Field Extension

Jul 01, 2025

Equinor and its partners have approved the $1.29 billion (NOK 13 billion) investment in the third phase of Johan Sverdrup field, which entails the installation new subsea infrastructure to increase recovery by 40 - 50 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe)…

Viaro Energy to Boost North Sea Portfolio with Deltic Acquisition

Jun 30, 2025

U.K.-based oil and gas company Viaro Energy has unveiled plans to acquire Deltic Energy in an effort to strengthen its North Sea portfolio, while setting Selene discovery as development priority.The acquisition has been structured as a recommended…

OKEA Gets Green Light for New Drilling Op at Brage Field

Jun 30, 2025

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted OKEA a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Brage field.The drilling permit is for the well 31/4-A-15 B in production license 055, and will be done via Brage production, drilling and accommodation facility…

Triton FPSO Set to Come Back Online with Full Ramp Up to Follow

Jun 30, 2025

Serica Energy has informed that Triton floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit in the North Sea will restart production shorty, following the completion of repairs and maintenance operations.Production will commence shortly, Serica Energy said…

Offshore Solar Farm Set for Integration with Dutch Offshore Wind Project

Jun 27, 2025

The assembly of an offshore solar farm has been completed at the Port of Amsterdam in a ‘world’s first’ project that will integrate the system with an offshore wind farm in the North Sea, offshore Netherlands.The system, supplied and built by Oceans of Energy…

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