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Photo: Allseas' Pioneering Spirit Removes Brent Alpha Platform

Jun 22, 2020

Allseas' giant Pioneering Spirit heavy lift vessel has completed its first decommissioning job of summer 2020, with a single-lift removal of Shell UK’s 17,000-tonne Brent Alpha platform from the North Sea. The Pioneering Spirit will now deliver…

TAQA Hires Archer for 21-Well P&A Campaign in UK North Sea

May 22, 2020

Oilfield services company Archer has won a contract for the provision of modular drilling unit and associated services aboard TAQA's Cormoran Alpha platform in the UK North Sea.Archer's rig has been contracted by TAQA to perform a twenty-one…

Activists Climb Shell North Sea Platform

Oct 14, 2019

Greenpeace activists boarded two Royal Dutch Shell oil platforms in the British North Sea on Monday in protest against plans to leave parts of the giant structures in place after production shuts down.Pictures provided by Greenpeace show two people in yellow hats scaling one of giant two large…

Dutch Offshore Wind Grid Borssele Alpha Ready

Sep 06, 2019

The Dutch government announced that construction has been completed of the first large offshore “socket”, or substation, that will connect 700 MW of energy from wind turbines in the North Sea to the mainland.Borssele Alpha, TenneT’s first and…

Petrofac Wins HKZ Offshore Grid Project

Jul 01, 2019

TenneT, the Dutch-German transmission grid operator, has awarded the oilfield services provider Petrofac work on the Beta high voltage alternate current (HVAC) substation platform in the North Sea for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) wind farm…

Brent Bravo Arrives at Able Seaton Port

Jun 25, 2019

The giant 25,000-metric-ton Brent Bravo oil platform topsides arrived at Able Seaton Port in preparation for its dismantling and recycling, said Peter Stephenson, founder and Executive Chairman of Able UK.The Brent Bravo, which stands 410 feet tall and 230 feet wide…

Teekay, Alpha Petroleum FPSO Deal Terminated

Jun 21, 2019

Teekay Offshore Partners, midstream services provider to the offshore oil production industry, said that the agreement with Alpha Petroleum signed in October 2018 for Teekay’s Petrojarl Varg vessel to operate on Alpha’s 100%-owned Cheviot field was terminated…

Heerema Wins Hollandse Kust Zuid Alpha Project

May 15, 2019

Heerema Marine Contractors said it has been awarded the Petrofac contract for TenneT's Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Alpha project, one of the largest offshore wind farm zones being developed in the North Sea off the Dutch coast.The award entails…

Rhenus Commences Borssele Alpha Supply

Apr 30, 2019

Rhenus Offshore Logistics has completed its first supply trip to the 700MW Borssele Alpha offshore platform  in the Dutch North Sea.Rhenus has taken over the complete supply logistics for its customer, HSM Offshore, during the installation work…

Apache Achieves First Oil at Garten

Dec 05, 2018

Apache Corporation announced it has begun producing from its Garten development on Block 9/18a Area-W in the U.K. sector of the North Sea, ahead of the initial target of first-quarter 2019. The discovery well, which is located 6 kilometers south of the Beryl Alpha Platform…

Sembcorp Marine, Teekay Offshore Pact on Petrojarl Varg FPSO

Oct 22, 2018

Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine,  has signed an agreement with Varg L.L.C., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teekay Offshore Partners L.P., for engineering, procurement and construction works related to the modification…

Alpha Completes Record Number of Blade Inspections

Sep 25, 2018

Alpha Offshore Service reports it has completing more than 4,000 offshore wind turbine blade inspections to date in 2018, a company record. This is an increase of 56 percent compared to 2017, which was previously its most productive period.The…

Lucky for some

Oct 01, 2017

Alpha Petroleum is proving that there’s room for small independents to make their mark in the UK North Sea. Elaine Maslin looks at the firm’s Cheviot field plan. Image from Centrica. Some fields get a second chance…

Alpha contracts Awilco for Cheviot development drilling

Sep 21, 2017

Alpha Petroleum Resources has inked a contract with Awilco Drilling for drilling 18 development wells on its Cheviot field development in UK North Sea. The drilling, using the WilPhoenix semisubmersible drilling rig, will take about 1080 days and is due to start in Q2 2018…

Buchan Alpha arrives for decom

Aug 14, 2017

Repsol Sinopec Resources UK’s Buchan Alpha oil production vessel arrived in Lerwick, Shetland for disposal.    Buchan Alpha arrives in Lerwick. Image from Repsol. Repsol says…

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