Wellhead servicing specialist Well-Centric secured a US$12 million (£8 million) contract to provide offshore and onshore maintenance and repair services to Apache’s North Sea subsidiaries. The three-year deal will see Dyce-based Well-Centric provide offshore wellhead maintenance services…
Aker Solutions suffered a disappointing loss to competitors in Statoil awards that will see the oil services company lose up to US$69 million in revenue, undergo workforce reductions, and an organizational restructure of its maintenance, modifications…
The Delek Group and its Leviathan partners are setting the record straight by refuting recent media reports regarding Leviathan’s development field plan. Map of Leviathan. From Noble Energy. Media…
Statoil, Gassco and ExxonMobil have received consent for manned underwater operations in 2016, from the Petroleum Saftey Authority (PSA) of Norway. The services are to be supplied by Technip and Subsea 7. Image from Statoil…
Petrofac has won contract extensions from its customers on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) totaling US$400 million. Petrofac secured a two-year extension from Centrica Storage to its Services contract on the 8A platform in the Rough field…
North Sea focused explorer Independent Oil and Gas has signed a rig contract with Transocean for use of the John Shaw semisubmersible drilling rig. The rig will be used to drill an appraisal well on IOG's 100% operated Skipper oil discovery in Block 9/21a in the Northern North Sea…
Norway-based geoscience firm Dolphin Geophysical has filed for bankruptcy just days after warning it had struggled to restructure its debt and capital structure. The firm, whose shares halved last Thursday after it warned it could have to file for insolvency…
The platform supply vessels Viking Lady and Viking Athene have been awarded a contract with Total E&P Norge for one well starting mid December 2015. The duration of this contract is estimated to 75 days. Viking Prince has also…
Statoil has received consent for modifications at Kristin and Tyrihans in connection with tie-in of the Maria field. Kristin is a gas condensate field at Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea. Statoil is the operator of the field, which has…
The Steam Oil Production Co. has agreed a deal with EnQuest to acquire a 100% interest in License P1996, made up of blocks 28/2b and 28/3b, containing the Elke and Narwhal discoveries. The transfer of the interest and assumption of operatorship…
Statoil and Repsol have agreed deals covering acreage in Norway, UK, US and Brazil. Statoil is to farm down 15% in the Norwegian Gudrun field to Repsol, retaining operatorship and 36% interest. Pending Repsol partner approval, Statoil…
BP has reached a major milestone with its Quad 204 redevelopment project 175km west of Shetland. The firm's new floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, the Glen Lyon, has left Hyundai Heavy Industries' yard in South Korea and started sea trials…
Swedish heat transfer and centrifugal separation and fluid handling firm Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems to an oil platform in the UK North Sea. The order is worth about SEK 100 million and delivery is scheduled for 2016…
Germany's Wintershall has made a minor oil discovery on the Syrah exploration well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The operation, in production license 248, included wild cat well 35/11-18, targeting Middle Jurassic rocks in the Brent group…
Independent Oil and Gas has executed a well management contract with AGR Well Management for the drilling of the North Sea appraisal well on Skipper, which is on track to spud in late January or early February 2016. As part of its payment…
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