Nautronix's NASNet array in Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field is now fully operational and awaiting first field construction, the UK-based firm said. Last year, Nautronix secured an order with Subsea 7 to supply 16 NASNet stations along…
Germany's Wintershall is stepping up its activities in the southern North Sea, the company has announced. In addition to an extensive drilling campaign in the Netherlands, the UK and Denmark, the company intends to take its natural gas and crude oil discoveries into the production phase swiftly…
Norway-based geoscience firm TGS signed a joint venture agreement with Dolphin Geophysical to acquire 4500sq km of 3D multi-client seismic survey over the western part of the Hammerfest basin in the Barents Sea. The survey will provide…
GMC Ltd. has just completed the basic design of a self-installing buoyant tower for the Prinos field development, located in the northern Aegean Sea, offshore Greece for Energean Oil and Gas. Image from GMC Ltd…
Subsea 7 awarded FES International a contract for the supply of fully automated diverless bend stiffener connectors (DBSCs). DBSCs are one of FES’s most successful product lines and this is the 10th fully automatic end fitting release system DBSC…
BP awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a US$73.9 million, five-year contract to provide operations, maintenance and project support for the Forties Pipeline System (which includes the Unity offshore platform and onshore pumping stations in Aberdeenshire…
An oil price below US$70/bbl will not be sustainable long term, according to Norwegian energy analysts Rystad Energy. Speaking at the firm’s offices in Oslo, senior analyst Audun Martinsen outlined how the firm sees current global liquids…
Never let a good crisis go to waste, an industry conference in Oslo, Norway, had been told this morning, Image from Aker. The phrase, used by former UK Prime Minister and wartime…
Malaysia-based Bumi Armada Berhad’s wholly owned subsidiaries Armada Floating Gas Storage Malta (AFG Storage) and Armada Floating Gas Services Malta (AFG Services) entered into a US$300 million deal with ElectroGas Malta (EGM) for the conversion…
EnQuest awarded Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) a five-year contract to provide engineering, design, construction, procurement and commissioning services to the Thistle, Heather and Northern Producer offshore assets in the North Sea. The contract…
Dana Petroleum awarded Technip a brownfield subsea contract for the Triton floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the central North Sea. Image from Dana Petroleum. This…
In this video, Lundin Petroleum shows the loading of the 16,000-tonne of steel and equipment comprised of both the main deck module and the process module for the Edvard Grieg platform onto barges, that occurred in the last days of March 2015…
The 22,000-tonne topside for the new offshore platform for the Lundin Norway-operated Edvard Grieg field is ready for delivery, in line with the contract awarded three years ago. Image of the Edvard Grieg project…
The Statoil-operated Gullfaks gas field in the Norwegian Sea will use Nexans' innovative power umbilicals combining power, fiber-optic and hydraulic lines in a single cross section. The cables were handed over to Statoil this month. The…
Statoil confirmed its second discovery in the Aasta Hansteen area with the Roald Rygg prospect in the Norwegian Sea. Map of Roald Rygg. From Statoil. The gas discovery was made at…