Qinterra Group’s North Sea well intervention specialist Altus Intervention and its international technology arm, Qinterra Technologies have combined. With headquarters in Stavanger, Norway, the combined group will be known as Altus Intervention…
Seadrill has filed for bankruptcy protection, as investors fork up US$1.06 billion of new capital for the company. Anton Dibowitz. Image from Seadrill. The company signed deals with more than 97% of its secured bank lenders…
The Isle of Man has launched an offshore licensing round for acreage that has not been reviewed in more than 20 years. Isle of Man. Image from iStock. Earlier this week, the…
Repsol has awarded Archer Wireline and Archer Oiltools a four-year frame agreement contracts for additional plugging and abandonment (P&A) services for Repsol Norge. Image from Archer. The…
Statoil and its partners have approved the lifetime extension for the Veslefrikk field in the North Sea until 2025, according to Industri Energi. Veslefrikk platform. Image from Statoil. In late summer…
Total E&P has extended the charter of the Safe Caledonia semisubmersible accommodation vessel at the Elgin-Franklin Facility in the UK sector of the North Sea. The 30-day option extends on site operations through until late October 2017…
Wellesley Petroleum’s Goanna prospect offshore Norway has revealed disappointing results, as no hydrocarbons were found, according to partner Faroe Petroleum. Image from iStock. The…
DONG Energy will build its Hornsea Project Two wind farm at the lowest-ever price for offshore wind in the UK, cutting its original price by half, in what the company is calling a 'breakthough moment.' Map of Hornsea 2…
Global subsea equipment specialists Ashtead Technology has named Brett Lestrange as UK regional director. Brett Lestrange Source: Ashtead Lestrange, who has more than 25 years’ experience in the subsea industry…
Metal-to-metal downhole sealing solutions provider BiSN has successfully completed its first project, plugging and abandonment (P&A) work for Aker BP's Valhall field. Using modified thermite heaters, BiSN’s technology reduces the heating…
Norway-based PG Flow Solutions has won a contract from Aibel to provide a chemical injection package (CIP) for the Dvalin tie-in to Heidrun topside EPCI project. PG Flow Solutions’ scope of work is a 8.5m x 3.8m x 3m CIP, which will be…
EDF Renewables has installed five gravity-based foundations (GBFs) at the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Wind Farm. Designed and built by Royal BAM Group in the Neptune dry dock on the Tyne, the GBFs were floated into position off the coast…
Statoil's Verbier exploration probe in the Moray Firth has disappointed, with the well intersecting a water bearing reservoir at target depth. Partner Jersey Oil & Gas, with 18% interest in well 20/05b-13, on license P.2170 license in blocks 20/05b and 21/1d…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Statoil consent to use the Songa Equinox mobile drilling facility to drill well 31/2-S-24 AY1H on the Troll field. Songa Equinox. Image from Songa Offshore…
Azinor Catalyst has failed to encounter hydrocarbon at its well on the Partridge prospect in the North Sea, leading the company to stall its plans to drill at the Agar and Plantain prospects. Map of well 14/11a-2 in P1989…