Aberdeen-based Helix Well Ops (UK) Ltd. completed the industry’s first riser-based coiled tubing intervention project from a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) class light well intervention vessel (LWIV). The Well Enhancer…
UK-based driller Awilco Drilling has swung back to a profit in Q2, but is set to cold-stack its WilHunter semisubmersible due to lack of work opportunities for it in the short-term. The WilHunter will join a fleet of seven cold-stacked…
UK based explorer Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) is targeting two prospects thought to contain 46 MMbbl after successfully appraising the Skipper oil discovery in the North Sea. While drilling the Skipper appraisal well hit delays, due to the need to re-spud the well…
Utility ROV Services (URS), has unveiled two new custom ROV (remotely operated vehicle) systems at their base in Glenrothes, Scotland demonstrating a US$7.8 million (£6 million) investment in the company. As a result of the additional capacity the extra systems will provide…
Siccar Point Energy, a joint venture owned by Blue Water Energy and funds managed by Blackstone Energy Partners, has acquired 8.9% interest in the Greater Mariner Area from JX Nippon E&P UK. The Mariner Field, the centerpiece of the Greater Mariner Area…
Ithaca Energy is eyeing November as its start-up date for first hydrocarbons at the Stella field, as the company reduced its net debt to US$606 million in 1H 2016. The FPF-1 departing Remontowa yard…
Det norske has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use the Maersk Interceptor jackup to drill production wells at Ivar Aasen. Ivar Aasen is an oil and gas field in the North Sea, around 175km west-southwest of Karmøy in Rogaland county…
Quayside Fabrication has designed a subsea basket that can be stacked and secured on a vessel while at sea. The newly named ‘Stackable at Sea’ subsea baskets can save valuable deck space and can result in fewer trips to sea for oil companies…
In this video, Norwegian giant Statiol shows a time-lapse of the 1700-tonne heavy lift on the Dudgeon bank. The Oleg Strashnov heavy lift vessel installed the substation for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm off Norfolk, UK. The substation…
GMC has successfully installed a seawater caisson in the North Sea; eight days ahead of schedule. It is the first installation carried out by the company in the North Sea; with a further two fabricated caissons completed and ready to be installed later this year…
Ashtead Technology has successfully completed a subsea integrity management project to support BP’s Quad 204 redevelopment of the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, West of Shetland. Subsea technology and equipment provider Ashtead deployed its new Deflection Monitoring System (DMS)…
The UK's Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded more than £200,000 in the final stage of its exploration license competition which was launched earlier this year to stimulate further interest in offshore oil and gas exploration activity in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS)…
Plans to put a team of eight salvors on board the grounded semisubmersible oil rig Transocean Winner have had to be called off because the conditions are unsuitable to winch them down safely, according to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency…
Stinger Technology has taken delivery of a customized Seaeye Falcon ROV to be used for offshore subsea operations under a contract awarded by Dong Energy. The assignment includes environmental sampling and inspection inside the oil storage tank of the Siri platform…
Planned strike action by workers for Wood Group working on Shell platforms in the UK North Sea has been suspended to allow fresh talks to start. Nearly 400 workers in the Unite and RMT unions have so far staged two walkouts, for 24 hours on 26 July…