"Catcher" News

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…

An uncertain outlook

Sep 01, 2017

Production is increasing in the UK North Sea as investments made up to 2014 come onstream. But what’s next? Elaine Maslin takes a look. The Culzean development jacket was installed in July…

Talos completes Zama-1 well, no oil in Zama Deep

Jul 31, 2017

Talos Energy's Zama-1 exploration well, which made the 'world class' Zama discovery, has failed to find further volumes in a deeper target. Zama-1 is being drilled in 166m water depth, in Block 7 in the Sureste Basin, about 37mi (60km) off Tabasco…

SNE FPSO tendering later this year

Aug 23, 2017

Tendering for a floating production unit and subsea systems for the SNE project offshore Senegal is set to start later this year, Cairn Energy says.  The project, which has seen 2C resources increase from 473 MMbbl to 563 MMbbl, with 1 Tcf of gas resource…

Weathering the storm

Aug 01, 2017

Infield Systems’ Catarina Podevyn surveys the FPSO market and discusses recent projects awards. The John Evans Atta Mills MV25 FPSO, operating at Tullow’s TEN project, offshore Ghana. Photo from MODEC…

Keppel on track to deliver Catcher FPSO

Apr 28, 2017

Keppel Shipyard says it is on track to deliver the Catcher floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to BW Catcher following a naming ceremony of the vessel today (28 April). BW Catcher - the 11th FPSO Keppel has delivered…

Premier's Catcher on track

May 15, 2017

Premier Oil says it will begin a short subsea tie-in campaign next month at the Varadero prospect, as its Catcher project remains on track to deliver first oil later this year. Image from Premier Oil Premier…

Trelleborg completes Catcher elastomeric bearings

Apr 06, 2017

Trelleborg’s engineered products operation recently completed a milestone project for BW Offshore for the complete in-house design and fabrication of floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) elastomeric bearing structures. Supplied to Premier Oil's Catcher FPSO in 2016…

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