"Catcher" News

Premier Oil Targets Carbon Neutral Operations by 2030

Mar 05, 2020

British North Sea-focused oil and gas producer Premier Oil has committed to carbon-neutral operations at its fields by 2030, reporting a record free cash flow of $327 million last year, up around 30% and boosted by its flagship Catcher field…

Independent Operators Lead 2020 FPSO Surge

Feb 04, 2020

2020 will be a peak year for floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) demand with up to 14 awards forecast in Wood Mackenzie’s base case scenario, half of which will be located offshore Latin America. Only two of these facilities are expected to be Petrobras units…

Premier Oil to Upgrade Catcher Reserves

Aug 22, 2019

Premier Oil will announce a second reserves upgrade for its Catcher oilfield in the UK North Sea at the end of the year, Chief Executive Officer Tony Durrant told Reuters on Thursday.The field has reached a plateau production rate of 70,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day…

Premier Oil Cuts Operating Costs Forecast

Jul 17, 2019

Britain's Premier Oil on Wednesday reduced its forecast for its 2019 operating costs to $12 per barrel of oil equivalent (boe) from $13 and expects debt reduction to reach the upper end of its $250-$350 million target by year-end.Premier, which had debt of around $2…

Premier Oil Raises Output Guidance

May 16, 2019

Britain's Premier Oil increased its 2019 production guidance on Thursday, saying output had been boosted by efficiency measures and a late sale from its now-divested Pakistan oil fields.The company said it now expects output to reach 75,000 to 80…

Babcock Wins BW Catcher Contract

Feb 20, 2019

Babcock said it has been awarded a four-year framework contract for brownfield fabrication and modification projects on the BW Catcher, a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) owned by BW Offshore. The scope of the contract includes engineering…

Premier Oil Swings to $133 Mln Net Profit

Mar 07, 2019

Premier Oil swung to a net profit of $133.4 million in 2018 from a net loss of more than $250 million in the previous year, the British firm said on Thursday, adding it aimed to reduce its debt pile to potentially less than $2 billion by year-end…

Liberty Wins North Sea Pipe Contract

Feb 04, 2019

The Liberty pipe mills at Hartlepool has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to supply steel pipeline for North Sea gas.The mills, which were acquired and relaunched by Liberty, part of Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, in late 2017, have…

Oranje-Nassau Energie and Dyas Agree to Merge

Dec 20, 2018

British North Sea-focused oil and gas producers, Oranje-Nassau Energie (ONE) and Dyas, have agreed to merge to expand production, the privately-owned companies said on Thursday.The merged group, ONE-Dyas, will operate alongside a group of of…

First oil flows at Premier's Catcher

Dec 23, 2017

Christmas came early for Premier Oil and its Catcher development partners. First oil was achieved from the field's FPSO today (23 December), according to FPSO owner and operator BW Offshore. BW Catcher FPSO…

Premier's Catcher FPSO hooked up

Oct 23, 2017

Premier Oil's Catcher development is on track for first oil by the end of the year with the project's floating production vessel now moored in field.  The BW Catcher vessel, built at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, and owned and operated by BW Offshore…

Siccar Point to sell HPHT Jackdaw stake

Nov 06, 2017

Siccar Point Energy will sell to Dyas UK Limited its 26% equity interest in three production contract licenses covering the Jackdaw discovery in the central UK North Sea. While Jackdaw operator Shell has conducted excellent work progressing the opportunity…

Catcher FPSO sets sail for UK

Aug 28, 2017

The Catcher floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel has set sail for the UK to work on Premier Oil's Catcher field. The unit, built at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, and owned and operated by BW Offshore, is expected to reach UK waters early in Q4…

Premier inks Tolmount pact, eyes Catcher first oil

Aug 24, 2017

Premier Oil has entered into an infrastructure partnership for the Tolmount gas development in the Southern North Sea, as the company looks to deliver first oil from Catcher in 2H 2017.  Map of Catcher…

OE17: A viable FPS future?

Sep 07, 2017

The floating production systems (FPS) market has been heavily impacted by the oil price downturn. Orders declined significantly from 17 in 2014 to four in 2015 and zero in 2016. There have been signs of a recovery in 2017, with seven orders booked year to date…

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