Forties Pipeline System News

 

Amec Foster Wheeler gets US$73.9 million BP work

Apr 15, 2015

BP awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a US$73.9 million, five-year contract to provide operations, maintenance and project support for the Forties Pipeline System (which includes the Unity offshore platform and onshore pumping stations in Aberdeenshire…

BP starts up Kinnoull

Dec 30, 2014

Production from the Kinnoull field in the North Sea has started, operator BP said this morning. The Kinnoull field, BP's seventh and final major project in 2014, has been developed as part of the Andrew field area rejuvenation, extending production there by a decade…

MOL completes latest acquisition

Dec 22, 2014

Hungarian integrated oil and gas firm MOL Group has completed an acquisition of North Sea assets from London-listed Premier Oil.  MOL acquired non-operated interests in the Nexen-operated Scott (21.84%), Telford (1.59%) and Rochelle (15%) fields…

Wood Group wins $750m BP contract

Dec 11, 2014

Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has been awarded a five year contract worth about $750million by BP for engineering, procurement and construction services on six UK continental shelf (UKCS) offshore upstream assets and the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) onshore midstream facilities in Grangemouth…

Forties pipeline installed

Oct 31, 2014

Apache North Sea Ltd. awarded STATS Group a contract to safely isolate the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) in the North Sea. The contract is for subsea isolation valves (SSIV) and piping spools to be safely installed and leak tested. This…

Marathon spuds Key Largo

Aug 06, 2014

Marathon Oil is due to spud an exploration well on the Key Largo prospect, on Walker Ridge Block 578, Gulf of Mexico, in Q3. It will be the first well drilled with a new-build deepwater drillship. Marathon Oil is operator and holds a 60% working interest in the prospect…

EnQuest completes Kittiwake acquisition

Mar 03, 2014

EnQuest has completed the acquisition of the UK Continental Shelf Greater Kittiwake Area (GKA) assets previously owned by Centrica North Sea Oil Limited (Centrica), as well as Centrica’s 100% interest in the Kittiwake to Forties oil export pipeline…

Enoch restart due

Jan 31, 2014

The North Sea Enoch oil field is due back on stream in early 2014, following restoration work on a new subsea tree and production testing. The Enoch field is on the border between the Norwegian and UK continental shelf, inBlock 15/5,in the southern part of the North Sea…

Enochdhu gets green light

Sep 17, 2013

A plan by ConocoPhillips (UK) and co-venturer Chevron North Sea to develop the central North Sea Enochdhu field has been approved by the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).  ConocoPhillips, operator, expects first production to start in late 2014…

New Forties platform to sail tonight

May 29, 2013

A new satellite platform built in the north east of England is due to float out of its yard tonight (May 29) to be installed 177km off Aberdeen. The 6338ton Forties Alpha satellite platform (FASP) topsides is part of a £400million project…

First oil from Apache's Tonto

May 02, 2013

Apache Corp. announced that its Tonto oil field in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea commenced production on April 24, 2013. Tonto-1, the first producing well, came on stream at an initial rate of 10,346 b/d. Apache holds a 100% working interest in the Tonto Field…

PSVM production starts

Apr 10, 2013

BP began production from the PSVM development in block 31, off Angola. Three wells at the Plutao field are expected to increase production at PSVM to about 70,000b/d of oil. Output will increase to 150,000b/d once Saturno, Venus, and Marte fields come online later this year and next…

Nexen spreads its wings

Feb 02, 2011

Field development prospects on the UK Continental Shelf are gathering momentum again, with Nexen (Golden Eagle, Blackbird), Chrysaor (Solan) and BG (Blake increased production) firming up North Sea project and environmental impact details in recent weeks…

Forties field: an updatable full field model

Dec 31, 2010

The overhaul of the reservoir model of the giant Forties oilfield – from data management to full field simulation – is described here by operator Apache North Sea’s Jeffery Pyle and Schlumberger’s Gordy Shanor.Production from the Forties field began in 1975…

Fortifying Forties

Aug 09, 2010

Having repositioned itself during the 2009 downturn, Aberdeen-based consultancy Altra Energy recently joined forces with offshore contractor SLP North Sea to secure its first full-scope engineering assignment – for a new satellite production…

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