While well intervention spending has been hit harder than average industry cuts, the opportunities are still there to be had, not least from mature North Sea assets, delegates at Offshore Network’s Offshore Well Intervention Europe Conference heard this morning…
The world’s heaviest offshore lift is primed to take place in the North Sea, on what was one of the largest UK fields, using the world’s largest vessel. UPDATE: the lift happened on Friday, 27 April. Watch a video of the lift here. Watch…
The world’s largest vessel has set sail today (25 April) to the UK North Sea Brent field, where it will perform the heaviest offshore lift to date. Having already broken the record with the 13,400-tonne Yme lift, offshore Norway, the…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) have given Statoil consent to put the Gina Krog facility and associated pipeline system into service. In June 2016, Statoil received partial consent from the PSA to put into service the accommodation quarters…
Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd. (SMD) has signed a contract with Van Oord for the manufacture and delivery of a QTrencher 1600. This contract follows the successful deployment of SMD’s QTrencher 1400 on Van Oord’s Gemini Wind Farm. Scheduled for delivery in Q1 2018…
DOF Subsea has purchased the remaining shares in Canadian Subsea Shipping Co. Before the transaction, DOF Subsea owned 45 % of the shares in the company. Canadian Subsea Shipping Co. has a newbuild vessel under construction at Vard Group in Norway.
AGR has been awarded a new framework agreement with the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to deliver reservoir management studies in subsurface technology, reservoir geology and reservoir engineering over a two-year period, with options for extension…
Statoil has selected a consortium led by GE Water & Process Technologies and Halvorsen TEC to supply a complete seawater sulfate removal unit (SRU) to help protect production wells in Statoil’s Johan Castberg project in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway…
There are higher hopes for the Barents Sea as the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said the northeastern part of the basin contains more than double that in the southern area. The NPD also expects 15 wildcat wells to be drilled in the Barents Sea this year…
Mark Garnier MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, has opened a Mission Control Center developed by ASV Global, an autonomous vessel technology developer, at its headquarters in Portchester, UK. This new center will be the hub…
From 30 January to 3 February 2017, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of the planning and execution of work on hydrocarbon-carrying systems for Eni's Goliat facility. The audit was a sub-activity of an audit series that will continue throughout 2017…
Gazprom-led Nord Stream 2 has signed financial agreements with five major energy companies, including supermajor Shell, for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project. Nord Stream 2 pipeline signing. Image from Uniper Twitter…
TGS will conduct a new multi-client acquisition project, Crean 3D, on the Irish Atlantic Margin. Crean 3D is a multi-client survey of more than 5400sq km in the South Porcupine Basin between the Porcupine High and the Irish Mainland Platform…
Canada's SNC-Lavalin Group has finally reached an agreement with UK-based WS Atkins (Atkins) to acquire the company in a cash deal worth US$2.7 billion (CA$3.6 billion). OE previously reported in early April that the Canadian engineering firm was looking into a takeover of Atkins…
Operator Engie E&P Norge has awarded contracts to TechnipFMC and Aker Engineering and Technology for feasibility studies for the Cara project in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The studies intend to show the potential, challenges and opportunities at an early stage of the development…