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Fairfield to decommission Dunlin

May 11, 2015

Fairfield Energy has announced plans to decommission its Dunlin Alpha platform in the North Sea not much longer than a year after it took over duty holder responsibilities for the platform. Production from all Dunlin cluster fields will…

NADL, Rosneft delay deal termination

Apr 20, 2015

Norway-based North Atlantic Drilling (NADL) and Russia's Rosneft recently agreed to extend the termination date of the 2014 framework agreement until May 31, 2017. The agreement states that either party can end the agreement, including any offshore drilling contracts…

Shell sets out Brent decommissioning

Feb 03, 2015

Shell is to start a 30-day public consultation on the decommissioning process of the Brent field in the North Sea, beginning mid-February. Brent field. From Shell.   The decommissioning program will begin with the Brent Delta platform…

West Alpha to drill at Balder for ExxonMobil

Dec 08, 2014

ExxonMobil received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use the West Alpha semisubmersible drilling rig on the Balder field, in the central North Sea. The West Alpha. From North Atlantic Drilling…

Brents A and B to cease 1 November

Oct 30, 2014

Shell will formally cease oil and gas production from the Brent Alpha and Brent Bravo platforms in the UK North Sea on 1 November 2014. Brent Alpha and Brent Bravo are located 186km (115 miles) east of Lerwick.  Both platforms have significantly…

Cape supports BP's Magnus renewal campaign

Oct 03, 2014

Industrial services firm Cape Plc has been awarded a contract to supply services within BP's UK North Sea Magnus Life Extension project, MLXP. MLXP is a project being undertaken by BP as part of its North Sea renewals program, and will…

Next step after a disaster

Jul 07, 2014

Nothing good comes from a disaster, but if people and companies can learn not to let it happen again, then at least that is one positive. That is what appears to be happening after the Piper Alpha disaster (pictured) over 25 years ago and the BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe four years ago…

Vessel availability slows projects

Jun 05, 2014

Limited vessel and rig availability have meant delays on two Alpha Petroleum Resources' UK projects, the Blythe development and appraisal on the Skipper field.  The firm is planning to submit a field development plan for the southern North Sea Blythe gas field project Q4…

Allseas tops Pieter Schelte

Nov 11, 2013

Allseas Group is to build a second single-lift platform installation and decommissioning vessel that will exceed the lifting capacity of its Pieter Schelte unit by 50%. The new vessel will be able to remove all platform topsides in the North Sea…

Allseas to do Brent removals

Aug 06, 2013

Allseas’ heavy-lift and pipelay vessel the Pieter Schelte has been awarded its first contract. The vessel, under construction at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in Okpo, Korea, is to carry out topsides removals on the Shell-operated Brent field in the North Sea…

New Forties platform to sail tonight

May 29, 2013

A new satellite platform built in the north east of England is due to float out of its yard tonight (May 29) to be installed 177km off Aberdeen. The 6338ton Forties Alpha satellite platform (FASP) topsides is part of a £400million project…

Mega projects on the horizon for the Pieter Schelte

May 22, 2013

After 20 years as an idea, the Pieter Schelte heavy-lift and pipelay vessel is getting close to winning its first work, with the North Sea its most likely first customer. Elaine Maslin shares a look.Big just got bigger, and what was once a dream is getting closer by the day to becoming reality…

Ferguson agrees East Africa partnership

Apr 30, 2013

The Ferguson Group, specialists in the rental of DNV 2.7-1/EN12079 certified containers, tanks, baskets, refrigeration containers, accommodation and engineering modules to the offshore energy sector, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Alpha Logistics Services (EPZ) Ltd…

Lord Cullen to address Piper Alpha 25

Apr 10, 2013

The man who led the Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster will stress the importance of strong leadership in how safety is managed offshore, at a major three-day conference this summer. Twenty-five years after the world’s worst offshore disaster…

Taqa reports platform leak

Mar 03, 2013

TAQA, the global energy company based in Abu Dhabi, can confirm that a hydrocarbon release was detected in one of the Cormorant Alpha platform legs in the northern UK North Sea. It has now been contained with no further hydrocarbon release…

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