Chemicals and oil products firm INEOS, which has UK upstream assets, has awarded a two-year well testing contract to oilfield services company Expro. The contract will see Expro provide testing services for at least three wells, including two new drills and one re-entry…
Alpha Petroleum is proving that there’s room for small independents to make their mark in the UK North Sea. Elaine Maslin looks at the firm’s Cheviot field plan. Image from Centrica. Some fields get a second chance…
Alpha Petroleum Resources has inked a contract with Awilco Drilling for drilling 18 development wells on its Cheviot field development in UK North Sea. The drilling, using the WilPhoenix semisubmersible drilling rig, will take about 1080 days and is due to start in Q2 2018…
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK’s Buchan Alpha oil production vessel arrived in Lerwick, Shetland for disposal. Buchan Alpha arrives in Lerwick. Image from Repsol. Repsol says…
First gas has been exported from Cygnus Bravo, a satellite to Engie E&P UK's Cygnus field development in the UK southern North Sea. Cygnus Bravo is a wellhead platform 7km from Cygnus Alpha, to which first gas was exported on 1 August…
Woodside Energy's Persephone project is set for start-up in August 2017, 30% under budget and six months ahead of schedule, the firm said this morning (20 July). The Persephone Project consists of two big bore deviated productions wells…
Engineering company Monadelphous Group has secured a five-year US$453 million (AUS $600 million) deal with Woodside Energy for the provision of gas asset general maintenance services and brownfields offshore implementation for Woodside-operated…
Marathon Oil has submitted to the UK Department for Business Strategy and Industrial Strategy a consultancy draft of plans to decommission its Brae Alpha, Brae Bravo, Central Brae, West Brae and Sedgwick offshore facilities. Brae Bravo…
Buchan Alpha. Image from Veolia Twitter. Repsol Sinopec Resources UK awarded Veolia the decommissioning job of the Buchan Alpha facility in the UK North Sea, which has ceased production on 12 May 2017 as planned…
Private equity backed independent Alpha Petroleum Resources is targeting first oil from its UK North Sea Cheviot oil field in 2019, after entering agreements with floating production system provider Teekay. Alpha expects to achieve…
Woodside Energy awarded Subsea 7 a sizeable contract valued between US$50 to $150 million for the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) project, offshore Australia. The Greater Western Flank is on the North West Shelf of Australia, 60km southwest of the Goodwyn Alpha (GWA) platform…
First gas on one of the largest recent discoveries in the North Sea has been delayed, according to partner Centrica Energy. The firm said that first gas on the four-platform Cygnus development project in the southern North Sea is now expected in Q4 this year…
Xodus Group’s Intelligent Monitoring service is being used by Australian oil and gas company Woodside to create surveillance tools for its North West Shelf assets. Accurate monitoring of oil and gas production is an increasingly valuable tool for operators and surveillance engineers but…
FMC Technologies has signed an agreement with Woodside for the design, manufacture and supply of subsea production systems for the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) Project as part of the North West Shelf (NWS) Project in Western Australia…
North West Shelf (NWS) operator Woodside Petroleum said project participants have approved the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) development off the northwest coast of Australia. GWF-2 will develop 1.6 Tcf of raw gas from the combined Keast…
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