Vår Energi, majority owned by Italy's Eni, will on Tuesday present a plan for how to redevelop its Balder and Ringhorne fields in the North Sea, extending their output, the Norwegian energy ministry said on Monday.Overall investments in the…
A Turkish drone meant to help seek hydrocarbons in the eastern Mediterranean landed at an airport on the divided island of Cyprus on Monday, a Turkish official said, in a move that could further stoke tensions between Turkey and Greece.The breakaway…
Petrofac, in a joint venture (JV) with the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), has secured a Project Management Services contract to support BP’s operations in Azerbaijan and Georgia.The three-year contract will support…
The UK’s offshore wind industry will need to lean on oil and gas expertise to help decommission wind farms as more than 3 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power reaches the end of its design life by 2034, an industry decommissioning conference heard in November…
Oil firm DNO has made a minor oil and gas discovery in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said on Friday.The discovery, made in 341 meters of water, about 4 kilometers west of the Heidrun field…
Norway's Equinor plans to export oil from its upcoming Johan Castberg field directly to the market, ditching the option of building an onshore reloading terminal, it said on Friday.'Johan Castberg partners ... have studied a possible development…
Services firm Petrofac said it has secured two new framework agreements (FA) for the provision of engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) services in the North Sea.The first, a three-year FA awarded by EnQuest as part of a multi-contractor framework…
Aker BP has tapped Aker Solutions and Subsea 7 to deliver and install subsea infrastructure for the second phase of the Ærfugl development offshore Norway.The Aker BP operated Ærfugl development is a subsea project being developed in two phases…
Engineering firm Wood announced on Wednesday that it has been awarded a contract by Norwegian energy group Equinor to deliver modifications to a pair of offshore platforms in the Norwegian North Sea that will be connected to electric power from floating wind turbines…
The first successful “Single-Trip Multi-Frac” campaign has been executed on the Valhall field, marking the first time this specific well stimulation method has been performed offshore.“The traditional method takes two-three days to fracture a single zone of the reservoir…
Having now completed the $4.5 billion acquisition of ExxonMobil’s upstream business in Norway, Vår Energi has doubled its production to become the second largest operator on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) – with more growth planned in the years ahead…
Depending on who you talk to, the Romanian offshore either has two projects worthy of mention and an aging supplier base, or it’s the most up-and-coming and accessible oil and gas province in all the world.The truth, as usual, is somewhere in the middle…
Providence Resources chief executive officer Tony O’Reilly has stepped down from his position and resigned from the board with immediate effect to pursue outside opportunities, the Irish-based energy company announced.The company's board has initiated a process to identify and recruit a new CEO…
Cyprus has petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to safeguard its offshore mineral rights, its president said on Thursday, upping the ante with neighbor Turkey which disputes its claims.Cyprus's internationally recognized…
Reaching some 9,023 meters from the Brage platform, the A36B well recently drilled by Wintershall Dea is the longest ever completed by the company in Norway. Around 200 meters longer than Mount Everest is tall, the well is also the longest ever drilled offshore by the company globally…
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