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Utt takes over Teekay chairman position

Mar 08, 2017

Teekay Corp. and Teekay Offshore Partners are shaking things up on its board of directors. Current Teekay Director, William P. Utt, will replace C. Sean Day as Teekay’s chairman effective 15 June. Day is stepping down on 15 June, however…

Cairn Energy gains Ireland acreage

Mar 08, 2017

Cairn Energy was awarded license option (LO) 16/18 in the Atlantic Ireland Licensing Round in 1H 2016, in addition to a farm-in to a 70% working interest and operatorship in the adjacent LO 16/19 with Europa Oil & Gas with plans for 3D seismic in 2017…

Statoil to drill at Snøhvit with Songa Enabler

Mar 07, 2017

Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Statoil consent to drill a fourth well at Snøhvit with the Songa Enabler semisubmersible vessel in the Barents Sea.  The Songa Enabler. Image from Songa Offshore…

PSA reveals Statfjord A breaches

Mar 07, 2017

Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has identified regulation breaches following its investigation into a fire that broke out on Statoil’s Statfjord A platform in October 2016. Statfjord A…

Capital investment could rise on UKCS

Mar 07, 2017

Overall spending on the UK Continental Shelf is expected to fall 3% compared to last year, to £17 billion, as projects continue to struggle, while exploration remains at a record low, according to a new report.   But, new capital investment…

DeepOcean to SURF BP's Foinaven

Mar 06, 2017

DeepOcean received a call-off under its new master service agreement (MSA) with BP Exploration Operating Co. that covers the installation of a new flexible water injection riser, and the recovery of the existing water injection riser in the deepwater Foinaven field…

Lundin spuds wells at Ghota, Edvard Grieg

Mar 06, 2017

Lundin Petroleum started appraisal drilling at Gohta in the Barents Sea, and on the Edvard Grieg field in the North Sea. At Gohta, appraisal well 7120/1-5 in PL492, is being drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson semisubmersible drilling rig. The…

Trio to FEED Pil & Bue

Mar 06, 2017

VNG Norge has awarded a trio of companies, Subsea 7, TechnipFMC, and Aker Solutions, front-end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the Pil & Bue project, in the Norwegian Sea. Subsea 7 and TechnipFMC won the subsea structures…

75% of UKCS projects late, 35% over schedule

Mar 03, 2017

A review of UK North Sea projects between 2011-16 has found that fewer than 25% were on time and 35% were over their original estimated budget, at field development plan submission. The review, carried out by the UK regulator, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA)…

Repsol cleared to drill deepwater Stordal probe

Mar 03, 2017

Spain's Repsol has cleared a hurdle to drill the Stordal prospect in the Norwegian Sea using Transocean's semisubmersible drilling rig Transocean Spitsbergen. The Petroleum Safety Authority has given the firm permission to drill the Stordal well 6705/7-1 in 1410m water depth…

AGR inks Wintershall Barents study

Mar 03, 2017

Wintershall Norway has awarded AGR a feasibility study in the Barents Sea that will see AGR evaluate well design solutions. AGR will monitor and identify the optimum design, drilling, and testing techniques required to carry out efficient exploration activity…

Aker BP to drill at Volund with Transocean Arctic

Mar 02, 2017

Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Aker BP consent to drill exploration well 24/9-11S on the Volund field with the Transocean Arctic in the North Sea. Aker BP is the operator of the Volund field, around 220km west of Tananger in Rogaland county…

Statoil to drill Mim prospect in Norwegian Sea

Mar 02, 2017

Statoil has been given the green light to drill a well on the Mim prospect in the Norwegian Sea using the Deepsea Bergen drilling facility. Map of well 6507/3-12 A, from the NPD. Well…

DEME orders heavy lift vessel from COSCO

Mar 02, 2017

Belgium marine contractor DEME has ordered a new, 300-tonne lifting capacity offshore transport and installation vessel, to be called Orion, from China's COSCO.  The vessel is set to be delivered in 2019 and will be deployed by DEME’s…

Boskalis sells all Fugro shares

Mar 01, 2017

Royal Boskalis Westminster has sold all of its remaining stake in Fugro. Boskalis went from owning 28.6% stake in Fugro at the end of 2015, to 9.38% in December 2016. The reduction was accomplished through a successful accelerated bookbuild via which 7…

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