U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has agreed to take part in the Scottish carbon capture project that's designed to store carbon from onshore industrial plants under the North Sea seabed.The project, named Acorn carbon capture and storage project (CCS) in Scotland…
ICR Integrity (ICR), an industrial maintenance and integrity company, has won a three-year contract with Shell UK.Under the contract, which includes extension options, ICR will provide its Technowrap engineered composite repairs, as well as Quickflange weldless connectors…
U.S. clean technology firm 8 Rivers Capital and Sembcorp Energy UK, a subsidiary of Singapore-based Sembcorp Industries, plan to build a net-zero emissions power plant in Teesside in northeast England, the firms said on Tuesday.The 300-megawatt project…
Twenty people working at Shell's Shearwater platform in the UK North Sea have tested positive for Covid-19 since the first case was identified on June 30, 2021, Offshore Engineer understands.According to a source close to the matter, there have been twenty positive cases since June 30…
North Sea-focused oil and gas company NEO Energy has completed the acquisition of independent oil and gas company Zennor Petroleum Limited, first announced back in March.HitecVision-backed NEO Energy said in March it would acquire Zennor from Kerogen Capital for up to $625 million…
Oil and gas firm Serica Energy on Monday announced successful flow test results from its Columbus development well in the UK North Sea.The well was drilled to a measured depth of 17,600ft with a horizontal section of over a mile in length in the Forties Sandstone formation…
China's CNOOC has opted to extend the contract for Prosafe's Safe Boreas offshore accommodation rig.Through its European subsidiary CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited, the oil firm has exercised two of the three 30-day extension options available…
Offshore installation firm Allseas said Thursday its giant Pioneering Spirit vessel had delivered another payload of what is a busy 2021 lift campaign.Namely, the flagship catamaran has recently delivered the new module for CNOOC International’s…
In this article Head of HSES at the specialist engineering and technical consultancy, Vysus Group, Steve Harris reflects on one of the most tragic industrial incidents that the world has ever seen which unfolded on the evening of 6th July 1988…
The cost of oil and gas decommissioning in the UK has decreased for the fourth year in a row since the cost was first estimated in 2017, when the Oil and Gas Authority set a target of a 35 percent cost reduction, with the goal of reducing the…
UK-based oilfield services company Petrofac has secured a three-year contract extension from Neptune Energy for the provision of operations and maintenance services for Neptune Energy’s Cygnus Alpha platform in the Southern North Sea. The contract extension…
UK-based oil and gas firm EnQuest has completed the acquisition of the Bentley oil field from Whalsay Energy.Back in April, EnQuest said it has signed a share purchase agreement (SPA) to purchase Whalsay Energy's 100% equity interest in the P1078 license containing Bentley…
Oil and gas company Tailwind Energy said Thursday it had completed the sale of its Conwy field, offshore the UK, to the Italian oil giant Eni.The firm said it had wrapped up the full divestment of its interests in the Conwy field, including…
Northern Ireland-based decommissioning specialist Decom Engineering has said it has developed tools that can make decommissioning in the energy sector greener, faster and safer, and is also looking at business opportunities in the offshore wind sector…
Oil and gas major Shell is taking the role of Technical Developer for the Acorn Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project in Scotland, the partners in the project said Tuesday.The carbon capture and storage project in the UK, run by Storegga…