Noreco has reduced its ownership in license 9/95 on the Danish continental shelf from 20.1% to 16% by transferring the balance to Nordsøfonden, the Danish State’s oil and gas company. Drilling of the exploration well 9/95 Xana started…
An urgent report to address major concerns about the health of the North Sea oil industry amid the plummeting oil price has been commissioned by the UK Government. The UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Rt Hon Edward Davey MP (pictured)…
Deloitte’s Petroleum Services Group’s latest North West Europe Review has revealed a drop in drilling, deals and new field start-ups in 2014. Deloitte says the drop in drilling was consistent with expectations, given recent trends and market conditions…
Total has started gas and condensate production from the high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) West Franklin Phase 2 project in the Central Graben area of the UK North Sea. The project, tapping 85 MMboe, will supply 40,000 boe/d to the…
Italy's Edison is to acquire Apache Beryl I's assets in license P185 Block 15/22 in the UK Central North Sea, including non-operated stakes in the Scott (10.5%) and Telford (15.7%) fields. This deal, which is subject to customary closing conditions…
Harland and Wolff (H&W) have won a contract award for dry docking and renewal/ special periodic survey of the Byford Dolphin mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) from Aberdeen based Dolphin Drilling. Following on the successful completion of its sister rig the Blackford Dolphin in 2014…
Independent oil firm Premier Oil is sticking to an eight-well exploration campaign in 2015, including its four-well campaign in the Falkland Islands, due to start in March, and its first well in the emerging Mandal High play offshore Norway…
Statoil’s request to drill at Knappen prospect in the central North Sea has been granted approval from the Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway (PSA). Drillng is scheduled to begin next month at well 16/7-11 using the Songa Trym semisubmersible drilling facility…
In a year during which the oil price remained stable at circa US$100 per barrel until the last quarter when a significant collapse in commodity price began, activity levels in both the UK and Norwegian sectors have continued to show a distinct divergence…
Statoil shows the process of getting its US$2.9 billion Valemon field on stream. The high-pressure, high-temperature, gas and condensate development, located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, started production on 3 January…
UK North Sea industry body Oil & Gas UK has said called on the UK Government to abolish a 30% charge on oil and gas producers as oil fell to its lowest prices in nearly six years. The body says oil and gas producers in the basin are unable to cover their costs at US$50 a barrel…
Italy-focused exploration firm Sound Oil has withdrawn its Intended Offer for North Sea exploration minnow Antrim Energy due to the deterioration in oil prices and reduction in global appetite for deep water exploration, the company said this morning (13 January 2015)…
Schnitger President Monica Schnitger urged oil and gas companies to explore and exploit the latest technologies to have successful projects at the 2014 Bentley Systems Year in Infrastructure conference. Meg Chesshyre has more. “I’m…
Ithaca Energy is looking to more than double its production in late 2015 when its North Sea Greater Stella Area development is due to come on stream. The firm averaged 12,300 boe/d in 2014, according to a 2015 outlook published this morning…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is processing Statoil’s plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Rutil discovery in the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen area in the North Sea. Image of Gullfaks…