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Husky hires JV for West White Rose CGS

Aug 08, 2017

Husky Energy has awarded the partnership consisting of SNC-Lavalin, Dragados Canada, and Pennecon a construction contract for the company’s West White Rose Project offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. Image of the SeaRose…

Husky firms up West White Rose

May 30, 2017

Husky Energy has firmed up plans for its West White Rose Project offshore Newfoundland and Labrador with first oil set for 2022, while announcing a new discovery at Northwest White Rose.   The SeaRose FPSO…

Pioneering Spirit completes record offshore lift - video

Apr 28, 2017

Allseas’ dynamically positioned single-lift installation and decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has set a world lifting record, with the removal of Shell’s 24,200-ton Brent Delta platform topside today. Located in the Brent field…

Updated: Hebron platform to leave Bull Arm in May

Apr 19, 2017

ExxonMobil’s Hebron platform will be towed from the Bull Arm construction site next month, on its way to the Hebron field offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. The Hebron platform being towed from Bull Arm…

SNC-Lavalin snags Hibernia, Hebron work

Apr 10, 2017

SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a six-year contract by a partnership composed by Hibernia Management & Development Co. (HMDC) and ExxonMobil Canada Properties, for the provision of inspection services for both the Hibernia and Hebron offshore oil production platforms…

Environmentalists ask Shell for further Brent decom info

Apr 10, 2017

Oil major Shell has not provided enough information about its plans for decommissioning the massive Brent field structures, according to a joint statement by eight environmental groups. The statement was made at the end of a 60-day consultation…

Shell's Brent decom proposal put to government

Feb 08, 2017

Oil major Shell has launched a 60-day public consultation on its plans for decommissioning the Brent field facilities in the North Sea. The huge engineering project will see the first significant use of Allseas' Pioneering Spirit heavy lift vessel…

IHS: Decom spend to hit $13 billion/yr by 2040

Nov 29, 2016

The decommissioning of aging offshore oil and gas platforms, subsea wells and related assets is increasing dramatically, with more than 600 projects expected to be disposed of during the next five years alone. This rapid trend toward decommissioning is causing spending to rise significantly…

Hebron GBS time-lapse

Nov 01, 2016

In this video, Exxon shows a timelapse video of the construction of the Hebron gravity based structure (GBS), which took about five years to build.  Exxon's  Hebron heavy oil project off Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, sits in the Jeanne d’Arc basin about 350km southeast of St…

Shell updates Brent decommissioning plan

Jul 06, 2016

Oil major Shell has set out its plans for decommissioning the Brent field facilities in the UK North Sea, including leaving its foundations in place.  The firm, which has already spent 10 years working on decommissioning the four platforms…

Embracing wind

Jul 01, 2016

While the US is only on the verge of bringing its first wind farm online, Audrey Leon surveys some of the prospects slated for the country’s federal waters. LEEDCo’s mono bucket foundation. Photo from DOE…

Hess, DNV GL renew asset integrity deal

Jun 22, 2016

Hess Denmark awarded DNV GL a contract to provide asset integrity inspection management of its South Arne field in the Danish North Sea. The agreement, which is estimated to be US$1.5 million (10 million DKK) per year, includes risked…

New technologies for Blyth wind farm

Jun 07, 2016

Work has started on a UK offshore wind farm which will be the first to use 66kV cables and the first in the UK to use gravity based foundations.  Onshore construction work has started on the project, EDF Energy Renewables' Blyth wind farm…

Hebron topsides connection gig for ACE

Jun 02, 2016

Deck machinery firm ACE Winches has been awarded a six-figure contract in support of a project to connect the Hebron gravity based structure (GBS) with its topsides.  The project will see ACE Winches supply hydraulic drum winch packages for the deep water Hebron oil field…

Drilling at Statoil's Statfjord

May 16, 2016

In this video, Statoil shows still drilling at its Statfjord area, offshore Norway. Statfjord is one of the oldest producing fields on the Norwegian continental shelf, and the largest oil discovery in the North Sea. The field…

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