SLB has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) through its OneSubsea joint venture with C-Power aimed at exploring the use wave energy as a lower-cost, lower-carbon power source for subsea energy applications.Subsea Integration Alliance partners SLB OneSubsea and Subsea7 will together with U…
Equinor-operated Troll B and C platforms in the North Sea have become partly powered from shore, which will result in the reduction of annual emissions from the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) by 250,000 tonnes of CO2.The achievement is in…
Oilfield services firm Archer has secured a new five-year platform drilling contract with OKEA for work at Brage development, offshore Norway.The new contract has an initial estimated value of $79 million (NOK 850) million over a firm five-year…
The production of oil from the Tryving filed in the Alvheim area offshore Norway, operated by Aker BP, with Petoro and PGNiG Upstream Norway as partners, has begun.The Tyrving development leverages the planned extended lifetime for the Alvheim…
RWE has installed an offshore converter platform at 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm, its largest offshore wind development under construction in UK waters.The offshore converter platform (OCP), which converts high voltage alternating current (AC) to high voltage direct current (DC)…
Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO has completed the acquisition of stakes in five oil and gas fields, including an operatorship, in the Norne area in the Norwegian Sea from Vår Energi.Following the closing of the transaction, DNO’s wholly-owned…
Global Energy Group (GEG) has been awarded a contract from Subsea7 Norway, to fabricate 134 subsea spools for the Aker BP-operated Yggdrasil field in the North Sea.The work will be executed from GEG’s flagship multi-user energy facility at the Port of Nigg…
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted DNO Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea, to be conducted using Noble Corporation's Noble Invincible ultra-harsh environment jack-up rig.The drilling permit is for a wellbore2/6-7 S in production license 1086…
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Equinor a permit to drill a wildcat well in the North Sea, using Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Atlantic rig.The drilling permit is for wellbore 35/11-30 S in production license 090, which is operated by Equinor with 45% working interest…
TotalEnergies EP Nederland has awarded a multi-million-dollar front-end-engineering design (FEED) contract to Petrofac for a CO2 injection platform as part of the Aramis carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the Netherlands.The project…
Britain's decision to increase a windfall tax on oil and gas producers to help pay for its push to grow renewables will lead to a sharp drop in revenue and accelerate the ageing basin's decline, North Sea drillers said.The new Labour government…
UK-based oil and gas company Viaro Energy reached an agreement with Shell and ExxonMobil for the acquisition of a full working interest in the Shell-operated UK Southern North Sea assets owned by the two supermajors.Viaro Energy made the deal…
The drilling operations on the Selene exploration well in the Southern North Sea have begun with Valaris 123 rig.Shell, as the operator of the license P2437, has informed the drilling of the well 48/8b-3 has started using Valari’s Valaris 123 drilling rig…
Subsea Integration Alliance, a global alliance between Subsea7 and SLB’s OneSubsea, has secured a ‘sizeable’ contract from BP for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of subsea pipelines and production systems at Murlach development in the North Sea…
Valaris’ jack-up rig Valaris 123 has been mobilized and is en route to drill the Selene exploration well in the Southern North Sea in Shell-operated license.The Valaris 123 drilling unit was mobilized on July 21 from its current location in the Central North Sea…