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Jan De Nul in NASR prep off Abu Dhabi

Oct 02, 2017

Jan De Nul Group has begun preparations for the subsea cable laying work for ADMA-OPCO’s NASR Full Field Development Package 2 Project off the coast of Abu Dhabi in the Arabian Gulf. Isaac Newton…

DONG Energy to become Ørsted

Oct 02, 2017

DONG Energy (Danish Oil and Natural Gas) has proposed to change its company name to Ørsted, following its strategic transformation from black to green energy and the recent divestment of the upstream oil and gas production. Turbine…

SPE Offshore Achievement Awards 2018 now open

Oct 02, 2017

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section has now opened entries for the 32nd Offshore Achievement Awards (OAA). The OAAs were launched during last month’s SPE Offshore Europe and are supported by OE.  Categories remain similar to last year’s line up…

Statoil, Total, Shell back CCS project

Oct 02, 2017

Oil majors Statoil, Shell and Total have agreed to enter a CO2 storage partnership.  The partners have signed a partnership agreement to mature the development of carbon storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The project is…

Statoil, Petrobras to work on mature deepwater fields

Oct 02, 2017

Petrobras has signed a heads of agreement (HoA) with Norway's Statoil to commit to assessing cooperation opportunities aligned with their business strategies relating to deepwater mature fields. The agreement is in continuity with a memorandum of understanding signed in August 2016…

Ophir awards Fortuna FLNG SURF EPCIC

Oct 02, 2017

Ophir Energy has awarded an upstream construction for its Fortuna floating LNG project - west Africa's first deepwater FLNG project - to Schlumberger company OneSubsea and Subsea 7's Subsea Integration Alliance. The contract is an engineering…

Subsea 7 confirms new reel lay vessel order

Oct 02, 2017

Subsea 7 has signed a contract with Royal IHC to design and build a new, high-specification reel lay vessel capable of installing complex rigid flowlines including pipe-in-pipe systems.  IHC says that, based on the ratio between top pipe tension and payload to displacement…

i3 submits Liberator development plan

Oct 02, 2017

i3 Energy has submitted its field development plan and environmental statement (ES) for the development of the Liberator field in the UK North Sea.  i3 plans to tie the field into the Blake field host infrastructure, then through the…

Lancaster FPSO arrives in Dubai

Oct 02, 2017

Bluewater Energy's Aoka Mizu floating production unit has arrived at Drydocks World Dubai shipyard ready for works to prepare it for use on Hurricane Energy's Lancaster field early production system (EPS) development, west of Shetland.  Drydocks…

A balancing act

Oct 01, 2017

Balancing digitalization, decommissioning, and a need to remain relevant and the lower “for the foreseeable future” scenario made for a complex range of topics at SPE Offshore Europe 2017. Bob Dudley…

Barents under the spotlight

Oct 01, 2017

2017 is set to be a record year for exploration in the Barents Sea, with one prospect in particular getting most of the attention. Edison Investment Research’s Elaine Reynolds explores the scene. Tapping Korpfjell: the Songa Enabler…

Creating a carbon store

Oct 01, 2017

Norway has an ambitious plan to take carbon capture and storage offshore to a level which could potentially see the country becoming a store for other’s emissions. Elaine Maslin reports. Technology Centre Mongstad…

Improving subsea emergency response

Oct 01, 2017

Seanic Ocean Systems discusses the creation of a new subsea dispersant delivery system. Overboard chute. Photos from Seanic. The offshore oil and gas industry is constantly looking…

Gas to power game changer

Oct 01, 2017

A Dutch initiative is looking to combine gas to power production with CCS to unlock marginal fields on the Dutch Continental Shelf. Elaine Maslin reports. Images from Circular Energy. Like the rest of the North Sea…

Going where no riser repair has gone before

Oct 01, 2017

Connector Subsea Solutions and Hydratight completed the world’s first deepwater riser repair at 1250m depth for BP off West Africa. Pål Magne Hisdal, Andre Midtun and Ivar K. Hanson explain. Image from the installation phase…

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