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ExxonMobil Planning Exit from UK North Sea

Aug 16, 2019

ExxonMobil is considering a sale of its assets in the British North Sea after more than 50 years in the oil and gas basin as it focuses on U.S. shale production and new projects.The world’s largest publicly traded energy company has held talks…

Safe Boreas Extended at Mariner

Aug 16, 2019

Equinor has exercised the fourth of six available one-month options to extend Prosafe's accommodation vessel Safe Boreas at the Mariner project in the UK sector of the North Sea to accommodate personnel working on Mariner in the hook up and early production phase through October 2019…

Norway's July Oil Output Beats Forecast

Aug 16, 2019

Norway's oil production fell 5.2% year-on-year in July to 1.447 million barrels per day, exceeding the official forecast for the month by 2%, Norway's Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said on Friday.Including condensate and natural gas liquids (NGL)…

Balltec Bags North Sea Decom Contract

Aug 15, 2019

Engineering from Balltec announced on Thursday it has been awarded a contract by Heerema Marine Contractors for work on the decommissioning and removal of a large platform with conductors in the North Sea.Balltec said its scope of supply comprises 18 of its LiftLOK ball and taper lifting connectors…

Rosenberg Worley Wins Vår Energi Contract

Aug 15, 2019

Vår Energi said it has awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract to Rosenberg Worley for the lifetime extension of the Jotun floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), enabling oil and gas production from the Balder field until 2045…

Mariner Field Comes On Stream

Aug 15, 2019

Norwegian energy company Equinor and its partners have started oil production from the Mariner field in the UK North Sea, the operator said on Thursday.The Mariner field, located on the East Shetland Platform of the UK North Sea, approximately…

Island Wellserver Approved for Equinor LWI

Aug 14, 2019

Norwegian authorities have given Equinor consent to use Island Wellserver for light well intervention (LWI), the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) announced on Wednesday. The consent concerns an extension to an existing LWI approval as well as a new operation using a coil hose…

Equinor Gets Green Light for Utgard Startup

Aug 14, 2019

Norwegian energy company Equinor has received consent from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to start production at the Utgard field.Equinor is said to be planning startup during September 2019.The field is located on the border of the UK and Norwegian areas of the North Sea…

Drilling Innovation Projects Get a Boost

Aug 14, 2019

A group of projects worth more than £1.3 million ($1.6 million) aims to develop new innovative technologies for use in offshore drilling operations.With the help of £640,000 ($772,000) in co-funding from the Oil & Gas Innovation Center (OGIC)…

New Money, Finds & Field Starts

Aug 13, 2019

Norway’s government will earn around NOK 265 billion ($30 billion) taxing and taking up stakes in its oil and gas fields in 2019, and Norwegian production is on the rise. In contrast, Britain in 2019 will earn about GBP 1.1 billion ($1.34 billion)…

OPEX Group Secures CNOOC Contract

Aug 13, 2019

An Aberdeen-based provider of predictive analysis services said it has secured a new multimillion-dollar contract with CNOOC  for digital services across the company’s assets on the UK continental shelf (UKCS).OPEX Group's three-year contract with CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited…

UK Gas Prices Rise as Norway Imports Dip

Aug 13, 2019

British wholesale gas prices rose on Tuesday morning as imports from Norway fell, creating undersupply.Within-day gas price up 1.30 pence at 31.20 pence per therm by 0809 GMT.Day-ahead gas price up 0.90 p at 30.50 p/therm.'Prompt prices are all up a bit on lower supply…

UK Offshore Wind Attracts Investments

Aug 12, 2019

Power companies including Ørsted, Vattenfall, Innogy, SSE and Scottish Power and financial investors such as infrastructure and pension funds are active in UK offshore wind power, said Deloitte.Japan, China and other countries in Asia are also showing increasing interest in the market…

14 Template Installations in One Month

Aug 12, 2019

In one month – from June 11 to July 13 – 14 templates delivered by Aker Solutions and TechnipFMC were installed by vessels Edda Freya and Normand Vision on behalf of Equinor at four fields on the Norwegian continental shelf. The templates are all built according to the same…

Petrolia NOCO Names Høie Managing Director

Aug 12, 2019

Norwegian E&P company Petrolia NOCO AS has appointed Linn Katrine Høie as its new managing director.Høie comes to Petrolia NOCO with broad experience from the energy sector, most recently working with digitization of field development in Aker BP…

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