Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is to speak at the opening plenary session at SPE Offshore Europe 2017, which is being held in Aberdeen from 5-8 September 2017. van Beurden will address several hundred oil and gas industry professionals in…
Fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy is closer to proving its Halifax discovery is linked to its Lancaster field, forming a single field, which would be the UK's largest undeveloped discovery on the UK Continental Shelf. Hurricane…
Wood Group has been awarded a US$50 million contract with Premier Oil, to deliver topside operations and maintenance services to the Balmoral floating production vessel (FPU) in the central North Sea and the Solan installation, West of Shetland…
North Sea independent explorer Jersey Oil & Gas says the Verbier prospect, due to be drilled by Statoil this summer, contains 162 MMboe mean prospective resources. The estimate - and increase on a previous 118 MMboe estimate - was made…
First production from Maersk Oil's Flyndre field, which straddles the UK and Norwegian North Sea boundaries, started yesterday (26 March). The field is a 25km single well subsea tieback to the Repsol Sinopec-operated Clyde platform, from which it is then exported via the Fulmar platform…
Statoil and Statkraft completed a deal that has increased the Norwegian giant’s share in the Dogger Bank Offshore Wind development to 37.5%. Image of Sheringham Shoal off the coast of Norfolk, from Statoil…
Aberdeen-based visual asset management (VAM) firm Return To Scene is conducting a pilot project for BP utilizing the latest generation of its visualization technology, R2S Mosaic. The technology, which adds spatial intelligence, among other advanced new capabilities…
The UK's Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) and Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) have joined forces to fund and support the development of innovations which could reduce costs, raise production efficiency, and improve safety and environmental performance…
Shining lights in the offshore oil and gas industry were recognized in a black tie dinner in Aberdeen last night. Some 500 industry professionals attending the SPE Offshore Achievement Awards, which celebrates innovation, collaboration…
Statoil has found oil and gas in a wildcat well, close to the Gullfaks field in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea. The well was drilled from the Gullfaks C platform to a structure east of the Gimle field, about 7km northeast of the…
Statoil has received consent from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill exploration well 7121/8-1 named Blåmann in the Barents Sea, with the possibility of a sidetrack well. Blåmann is in production license 849, around 113km northwest of Hammerfest and 25km from Goliat…
Saipem and Siemens have signed a joint development for subsea control systems for Saipem’s Subsea Bus architecture based on Siemens Subsea DigiGrid. Siemens, through its subsea entity, will support Saipem in realizing the Saipem Subsea Bus architecture…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted consent for continued use of the subsea facilities on the Sigyn field in the North Sea from the end of 2017 until the end of 2022. In its application, operator ExxonMobil refers to current estimates…
4Subsea won a contract with Statoil to deliver services and research projects related to structural integrity of fixed and floating offshore installations. The deal will see 4Subsea deliver services related to subsea installations from subsea wellheads…
Maersk Oil reached an agreement with the government of Denmark that will see a full redevelopment plan for the Tyra project in the Danish North Sea. Tyra East. Image from Maersk Oil. The…