Ekofisk News

 

New North Sea find near Ekofisk

Jul 23, 2015

Norway's Statoil has made a 15-75 MMboe gas and condensate discovery near the 70-200 MMboe King Lear discovery located just 17km from the Ekofisk facilities. The Julius discovery well 2/4-23S, drilled using the Maersk Gallant jackup in 68m water depth…

ConocoPhillips to use Maersk Gallant at Eldfisk

Jun 18, 2015

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has granted ConocoPhillips consent to use the Maersk Gallant mobile drilling facility for plugging and abandoning a production well at Eldfisk 2/7 A. Eldfisk is an oil field lying due south of Ekofisk in 70-75m of water in the southern North Sea…

Activity ramps up on FPF-1 conversion

May 14, 2015

Work on UK independent Ithaca Energy's Greater Stella Area (GSA) floating production unit is reaching a peak in Remontowa's Polish shipyard. Ithaca says manning levels on the FPF-1 vessel have been at historic highs over recent weeks…

Minor oil discovery at Romeo

Feb 13, 2015

Statoil Petroleum has made a minor oil discovery at the Romeo prospect in production license 146 in the southern part of the Norwegian North Sea. The Romeo well 2/4-22 S was drilled about 20km north of the Ekofisk field and 2.3km northeast of the 2/4-21 discovery…

A sinking feeling

Feb 02, 2015

Ekofisk is an iconic field, but its uniqueness gives operator ConocoPhillips some specific challenges around subsidence. Elaine Maslin reports. The Ekofisk Complex. Photo from ConocoPhillips Norge…

Q3 Greater Stella start-up planned

Jan 12, 2015

Ithaca Energy is looking to more than double its production in late 2015 when its North Sea Greater Stella Area development is due to come on stream. The firm averaged 12,300 boe/d in 2014, according to a 2015 outlook published this morning…

First oil on Eldfisk II achieved

Jan 05, 2015

First oil production has started from ConocoPhillips Eldfisk II project in the Norwegian North Sea. The Eldfisk II project includes plans to drill 40 new production and water injection wells from the new Eldfisk 2/7 S platform. One of four pre-drilled wells is currently online…

Total sells interest in four fields

Oct 29, 2014

Total E&P Norge AS will sell an 8% interest in the Gina Krog field in Norway, together with its interests in the mature fields of Vilje (24.243%), Vale (24.243%) and Morvin (6%), to PGNiG Upstream International for US$317 million. The…

Drilling starts at Eldfisk

Oct 22, 2014

ConocoPhillips kicked-off the drilling campaign on its Eldfisk II project with Maersk Innovator. Five wells have been pre-drilled, and the drilling operations of the remaining 35 wells has now begun. Eldfisk II is one of four fields that comprise the Greater Ekofisk Area…

Ithaca's Stella exceeds expectations

Sep 16, 2014

Ithaca Energy has completed a flow test on the fourth development well on the UK North Sea Stella field, hitting 12,005boe/d. The result takes the total field potential up to 45,000boe/d, exceeding the firm's 30,000boe/d annualised estimate for the field…

ConocoPhilliips extends Archer contract

Jul 31, 2014

ConocoPhillips has extended its contract Archer Ltd. for the provision of platform drilling services for the Greater Ekofisk Area. The Greater Ekofisk Area is located in the southern part of the North Sea, 300km southwest of Stavanger…

Archer secures Peregrino extension

Jul 25, 2014

Statoil's Brazilian business unit has exercised the first of two options to extend its contract with Archer for the provision of platform drilling management services on the Peregrino field development. The original contract was for a fixed four-year term…

Kværner increases order book

Jul 16, 2014

Norway-based Kvaerner's Q2 earnings fell but the firm saw an increase in order intake and growth on existing projects, according to its latest results.  During the second quarter, Kvaerner completed three large offshore platform…

Eldfisk heads out to sea

May 16, 2014

The Eldfisk 2/7 S topside left Kvaerner's yard at Stord, Norway, today, bound for its installation site at Eldfisk, about 300km from Norway’s coastline (pictured).  The Eldfisk 2/7 S topside consists of one combined living quarter and utility module and a combined process and wellhead module…

New giant Ekofisk opens for business

Apr 08, 2014

The new accommodation and field centre platform on the Ekofisk Complex - now the largest accomodation platform in the North Sea - was officially opened on Tuesday, 1 April. The new platform, now entering use, is the largest accomodation platform in the North Sea…

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