Subsea services firm Bibby Offshore has completed one contract and has started a second for Shell on the major's Corrib gas field, offshore Ireland. The first contract, completed in June , saw Bibby Offshore’s construction support vessel…
Sweden's Vattenfall has won the tender to build Danish Kriegers Flak, a 600 MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. Kriegers Flak will be Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm. Vattenfall’s investment in Kriegers Flak will be EUR 1…
Statoil has been given approval to carrying out various well activities on the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea, about 130km north of Kristiansund. The Njord field has been developed using a semisubmersible drilling, accommodation and production facility…
OMV has entered a deal to sell its UK subsidiary, OMV UK, to Siccar Point Energy for up to US$1 billion in a move that will see the Austrian company give up its stake in the Chevron-operated Rosebank deepwater project in the North Sea. Image from OMV…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Statoil consent to use the Scarabeo 5 semisubmersible rig for well activities on the Njord field, in the Norwegian Sea. Statoil is the operator at Njord, around 130km north of Kristiansund…
CorPower Ocean was awarded a US$4.4 million (€4 million) grant by the European Commission (EC) for its WaveBoost project. The grant will support a three-year innovation program targeting significant improvements in the reliability and…
Denmark’s DONG Energy has decided to exit the oil and gas business, to focus its efforts on renewables. Image from DONG Energy. “We have decided to initiate a process with the aim of ultimately exiting from our oil and gas business…
Marine Scotland announced the award of two marine licenses in support of Aberdeen Harbour’s major plans to expand its facilities into Nigg Bay, to the south of the existing harbor. Issued under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010, the licenses…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Statoil consent to use the Huldra facility in a cold phase in production license 051 and 052B in the North Sea. The consent applies to the use of the facility in a cold phase, after the wells have been permanently plugged and abandoned…
In this video, Chevron shows the process it took for its Alder HPHT field to reach first gas, 41 years after in was discovered. Chevron’s high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) gas condensate Alder field in the Central North Sea started production this week…
As the industry heads into the third year of the downturn, market fundamentals for the deepwater segment continue to fight strong headwinds, Rystad Energy says. But, is 2018 the light at the end of the tunnel for the floating rig market? Utilization…
Chevron started production at the high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) gas condensate Alder field in the Central North Sea that will help extend the field life of Britannia. Image of the installation of the Alder subsea isolation valve…
Farstad Shipping and a company in the Siem Industries group have entered into a non-binding letter of intent for the financial restructuring of Farstad Shipping, with Siem or a fund managed by Siem as a key equity investor. In accordance with the letter of intent…
VNG Norge and its partners in PL586 will develop the Pil & Bue discoveries using a subsea installation tied back to the Njord A platform in the Norwegian Sea. Map of Pil & Bue, from VNG Norge. In…
Statoil has appointed Jannicke Nilsson as its new executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO), taking over for current COO Anders Opedal, who will lead the development of Statoil’s growing and increasingly important operations in Brazil as new country manager…