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Shell charters accommodation unit for Brent C work

Aug 27, 2015

Shell has contracted Norwegian accommodation vessel operator Prosafe's Regalia unit to support work on the Brent C platform in the UK sector of the North Sea. Brent C is one of four platforms on the Brent field which Shell is working towards decommissioning…

Seaway Heavy Lifting installs Cygnus process unit

Aug 05, 2015

Seaway Heavy lifting’s crane vessel Oleg Strashnov successfully installed the process unit (PU) topside for operator GDF SUEZ E&P UK (part of the ENGIE Group), and partners Centrica Energy and Bayerngas, setting a new company record. The…

Final Cygnus module sets sail

Jul 21, 2015

GDF Suez' Cygnus Alpha compression module (ACM) sailed away from Heerema Fabrication Group's Hartlepool facility on the night of 20 July, marking the completion of last of four main structures built at the facility for the Cygnus development…

Decom projects on the rise

Jul 01, 2015

Within the next few years, a couple of major decommissioning projects are set to start in the UK sector of the North Sea at the Brent and Murchison fields — and there are plenty of other projects in the pipeline. John Bradbury outlines the activity…

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…

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…

US crude to hit 1972 highs

May 07, 2014

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates US total crude oil production averaged 8.3MM bbl/d in April—making it the highest monthly average production since March 1988.  US total crude oil production, which averaged 7.4MM bbl/d in 2013…

Brent platforms go to Able UK

Feb 10, 2014

Able UK has been awarded a contract for the disposal of four offshore structures from the Shell operated Brent field in the North Sea. The contract will see three platform topsides, as well as a 138m-high steel platform jacket, transported from the Brent field…

FPSO an option for Njord

Nov 21, 2013

Partners on the shut-in Norwegian Njord field are considering options for the area’s future, including a potential new floating production vessel or platform.  The floating steel Njord A platform, operated by Statoil, was shut-in during July…

RWE Dea UK extends work with ODE

Sep 26, 2013

German operator RWE Dea UK has agreed a five year, £40 million, contract with engineering and operations support services contractor Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) to support its southern North Sea fields.  ODE has already been working for RWE…

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…

Striking Thai oil

Jan 10, 2013

Salamander Energy announced first oil at its Bualuang Bravo platform in the Gulf of Thailand. The Atwood Mako drilled development well BB-04-H, which is expected to produce 1500b/d. With a 15-well development planned, Salamander expects production to increase to around 14,000b/d in 2013.

Proserv wins Cygnus topside controls

Nov 12, 2012

Proserv workerAMEC has chosen Proserv to supply topside control equipment for GDF Suez's Cygnus field development on the southern North Sea, Proserv announced on 8 November 2012.Under the terms of the $1.9 million contract, Proserv will supply the design…

Green light for Cygnus gas giant

Sep 01, 2012

A flurry of early contracts marked August's official sanction of the £1.4 billion development of Cygnus, the largest southern North Sea gas discovery in the last 25 years. Meg Chesshyre reports.GDF Suez, which will operate Cygnus on behalf of partners Centrica and Bayerngas…

Succeeding at the front end

Sep 01, 2011

With a series of North Sea contracts under its belt, project management company EPC Offshore is on track for £6 million-plus turnover in only its second year of business. In the first of OE’s reports on some of the people and companies illuminating today’s Aberdeen offshore scene…

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