Chevron North Sea awarded Atkins a three-year framework contract for structural integrity services across selected fixed and floating platforms in the UK North Sea. The contract covers assets including the Alba Northern platform and topsides…
Songa Offshore's newbuild semisubmersible drilling rig Songa Encourage has been taken close to Kristiansund, Norway, for equipment overhaul and repair following a water ingreses into a pump room on 2 January. The rig is expected to be back in operations early February 2017…
Statoil is set to drill its next well, on the Mim prospect, near the Norne field after being given the green light by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Statoil will use the Deepsea Bergen semisubmersible drilling rig to drill well 6507/3-12 in production license 159 B…
Baker Hughes and Schlumberger are to be awarded contracts for integrated drilling and well services on Statoil's two new Cat J jackup rigs, Askepott (translated as Cinderella) and Askeladden (a character from Norwegian folklore). The…
Natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie says it expects a modest recovery to the oil and industry in 2017, underpinned by an improving oil price. Growth opportunities, including frontier exploration, small project sanctions and increased M&A…
Cairn Energy is moving to further explore Senegal, and working towards first oil in the North Sea this year, in what the company calls an eventful period. The Kraken FPSO, from Cairn. “The…
Statoil has agreed to divest 25% of its assets in Hywind Scotland pilot park, the world’s first floating wind farm, to Masdar. Hywind illustration, from Statoil. The wind farm offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire…
North Atlantic Drilling has been awarded a one-well contract for the semi-submersible West Phoenix for work in the UK, West of Shetland. The contract is in direct continuation with the West Phoenix' existing contract and the total backlog is estimated to be $17 million…
Statoil is set to move forward with more than half a billion dollar's worth of investment in the UK and Norwegian North Seas after getting the green light for its Utgard and Byrding projects. The move comes just as the firm is considering…
The UK’s i3 Energy is planning to list on the stock market after acquiring the UK North Sea Liberator oil discovery, which it hopes to potentially bring to development this year. Liberator is immediately adjacent to the producing Blake field…
Recently formed Norwegian operator Aker BP has set out an ambition to discover a net 250 MMboe in reserves in 2016–2020. At a capital markets day, the firm said it is planning four operated exploration wells and three partner-operated exploration wells in 2017…
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to acquire a currently disused pipeline in the southern North Sea and associated onshore reception facilities. The pipeline will provide the proposed export route for IOG's southern North Sea gas assets…
UK independent fractured basement reservoir explorer Hurricane Energy has started drilling on its Halifax well west of Shetland on the UK Continental Shelf. The well, being drilled using the Transocean Spitsbergen semisubmersible drilling rig…
Premier Oil's Catcher North Sea floating production project is on schedule for startup later this year with a 29% reduced capital budget compared to when it was sanctioned, at US$1.6 billion. The Catcher area is expected to produce 96 MMboe…
A severely distressed tail rotor caused the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter to lose total control in the 28 December incident at Total’s West Franklin platform offshore the UK, according to the UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). TRPCS…