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ONS: Blaze launches FLEX-FLO

Aug 29, 2016

Fire control and safety solutions firm Blaze Manufacturing Solutions has launched its new flexible pipe solution and announced a strategic partnership with a Norwegian firm at this year’s ONS Exhibition and Conference in Stavanger, Norway…

Zenith completes P&A off Italy

Aug 29, 2016

Aberdeen-based well management firm Zenith Energy has successfully completed the plug and abandonment (P&A) of the Ombrina Mare development well, offshore Italy, for London’s Rockhopper Exploration. The Atwood Beacon…

GustoMSC launches new rig design

Aug 29, 2016

Dutch outfit GustoMSC has launched a new harsh environment drilling semisubmersible series, OCEAN-HE. The OCEAN850-HE and OCEAN1600-HE have been designed for mid-water and deepwater harsh environment regions. The series' semisubmersible…

Mariner B arrives at Nigg

Aug 29, 2016

The Mariner B vessel arrived and is safely berthed at Global Energy Group’s Nigg Energy Park, north of Inverness, after completing the 15,800nm (18,183mi/29,263km) journey from the Samsung construction yard in South Korea. Mariner illustration…

ONS: 2017 the time to FID, suggests Wood Mack

Aug 29, 2016

Some US$50 billion has been dropped from the Norwegian oil and gas investment hopper from 2014 up to 2020, according to figures presented at the ONS exhibition and conference in Stavanger today. The fall, amid a $1 trillion drop in global spending in the same period…

ONS: CGG reveals TopSeis

Aug 29, 2016

CGG launched TopSeis, its latest offshore broadband seismic solution specifically designed to overcome the intrinsic lack of near offsets inherent in 3D towed-streamer seismic, at the 2016 Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) conference today (29 August)…

Wood Group inks Utgard tieback work

Aug 29, 2016

Wood Group has been awarded the detailed design scope of the subsea tie-back from the Utgard gas and condensate field to the Sleipner facilities, in the Norwegian North Sea. The three-year, US$1million workscope is the first call off…

Video: Statoil ups Sverdrup value, cuts costs

Aug 29, 2016

Statoil has reduced the cost of its massive Johan Sverdrup develop even further, to reach a full field break even cost of US$30/bbl, the Norwegian oil major revealed this morning.  Drilling operations at Johan Sverdrup…

NCS development costs cut by 40%

Aug 29, 2016

The price tag for developing a field on the Norwegian shelf has declined by an average of more than 40% since the autumn of 2014, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s (NPD) analysis of eight planned developments that are approaching start-up…

Drone video of Njord A tow

Aug 29, 2016

In this drone video, Statoil shows its Njord A semisubmersible production platform as it was being towed to the Kværner Stord yard in Norway for reinforcement and renovation works that will enable it to return to production up to and beyond 2030…

Keppel to deliver Bumi's Armada Kraken

Aug 29, 2016

Singapore-based Keppel Offshore & Marine is on track to deliver the Armada Kraken floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to Bumi Armada, marking the Malaysian oilfield service company's entry into the North Sea. The Armada Kraken…

NorSea inks Johan Sverdrup pipe work

Aug 26, 2016

The NorSea Group (NSG) has signed a US$9.8 million (NOK 80 million) contract with Statoil for intermediate storage of the Johan Sverdrup export pipelines. The contract involves receipt of over 36,000 pipe sections, 36in and 18in in diameter…

Njord arrives at Kvearner for overhaul

Aug 26, 2016

Statoil's Njord A semisubmersible production platform has been towed to the Kværner Stord yard in Norway for reinforcement and renovation works, which will enable it to return to production up to and beyond 2030. The facility, which was built at the same yard in 1997…

Antrim seeks to wind up

Aug 26, 2016

Canadian-based, North Sea and Ireland focused explorer Antrim Energy is seeking to wind up.  At its annual and special meeting on Tuesday (30 August), the firm will consider approval to voluntarily dissolve the corporation, delist from…

Brent Delta given lighthouse mode

Aug 26, 2016

Navigational aids specialist Pharos Marine Sims Systems has completed the design, manufacture and installation of a bespoke solar navigation aid system for Shell's Brent Delta platform in the North Sea. The Great Yarmouth-based firm completed…

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