The offshore substation jacket for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm, made in Lowestoft by Sembmarine SLP, has been successfully installed in the seabed on site. The four-legged jacket, designed and built by Sembmarine SLP, stands at a near-perfect verticality of 0…
There’s no disputing the somber mood of this year’s Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, but industry leaders attempted to stay upbeat. Melissa Sustaita reports. Wael Sawan executive vice president…
A new concept in well tools could see one-off tools built, run and left downhole to disintegrate. Elaine Maslin reports. A computer graphic of the FLI design. Images from Well-Sense Disintegrating…
ConocoPhillips is working to plug and abandon 130 wells in the southern North Sea, reducing the number of days it takes as it works through the program. But, it wants to improve further, Elaine Maslin reports. The GMS Endurance jackup…
Automating data collection reduces operator exposure to offshore hazards, as well as making it easier, says Emerson Process Management’s Craig Abbott. Statoil’s Gullfaks’ B platform. Photo from Statoil…
The UK North Sea is expected to dominate the decommissioning market from 2016-2040. How much it will cost depends on the success of vessels such as Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit, says Douglas-Westwood’s Ben Wilby. Pioneering Spirit with the Lorelay…
Statoil Petroleum made a small discovery but also drilled a dry hole on its latest drilling in production license 035, 35km south west of the Oseberg Sor facility. Wildcat well 30/11-12 S (the Askja South East prospect) encountered a 37m oil column in the upper Tarbert formation…
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has opened the Norwegian Ocean Laboratory at Marineholmen in Bergen. The laboratory will host world-class research infrastructure and facilitate collaborative cross-border technology development for ocean research…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for two wildcat wells and an appraisal well, if a discovery is made, in PL 035. The wells, 30/11-14, 30/11-14 A and 30/11-14 B, will be drilled from the Songa Delta semisubmersible drilling rig…
Philip Hemmens has been appointed the new managing director at Eni Norge. Hemmens is a British citizen and has for the past five years been Managing Director of Eni UK. Hemmens replaces Ruggero Gheller, who was appointed in 2014…
Maersk Drilling has agreed to acquire the newbuild harsh environment jackup rig Hercules Highlander from struggling US drilling contractor Hercules Offshore. Hercules was awarded a five-year contract by Maersk Oil for use of the rig on the Culzean high-pressure…
Estimates for total investments covering oil and gas, manufacturing, mining and quarrying and electricity supply in Norway expected to fall in Norway in 2017, mainly due a decrease in oil and gas and manufacturing. The projection, from Statistics Norway…
Wintershall Norge has awarded a series of four-year contracts for supply of well completion equipment and services for its operated drilling activities in Norway. The contracts have been awarded to six companies including Halliburton which will provide the largest share of the work…
GC Rieber Shipping has secured a cable lay charter with marine solutions and specialist engineering service provider James Fisher Marine Services for the SURF vessel Polar Onyx for services in the UK North Sea. The charter commences prompt and with options may last in excess of one month…
CGG GeoSoftware launched Jason 9.5, the latest version of its advanced reservoir characterization software that adds many new capabilities including depth inversion, broadband reservoir characterization and anisotropic inversion. These additions…