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…
CATS Management Limited (CML) has signed a heads of terms with Premier Oil and Dana Petroleum to develop the infrastructure for the Tolmount field in the Southern North Sea. CML and Dana Petroleum will jointly construct and own the Tolmount platform and export pipeline in equal shares…
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…
Premier Oil awarded Wood Group a contract to deliver front-end engineering design (FEED) to the Tolmount offshore field development in the Southern North Sea. Effective immediately, Wood Group will provide topsides, jacket, pipeline…
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’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…
Premier Oil has revealed plans to drill offshore Mexico; the next phase of growth at Tolmount off the UK; and for the sanctioning of its BIGP project offshore Indonesia. Map of Block 2, Block 7 offshore Mexico…
Premier Oil's Catcher North Sea floating production project is on schedule for startup later this year with a 29% reduced capital budget compared to when it was sanctioned, at US$1.6 billion. The Catcher area is expected to produce 96 MMboe…
Cairn Energy is moving to further explore Senegal, and working towards first oil in the North Sea this year, in what the company calls an eventful period. The Kraken FPSO, from Cairn. “The…
Premier Oil's Catcher floating production project in the UK North Sea is on schedule to deliver first oil in 2H next year. The UK-based independent says further cost savings have been secured against the project estimates. Premier now forecasts capex to first oil of US$1…
UK-based independent Premier Oil has completed its deal to by E.ON's UK North Sea assets. On 13 January 2016, Premier announced that it had agreed to acquire the whole of E.ON's UK North Sea assets for a net consideration of US$120 million…
Ghohta discovery Lundin Petroleum made an oil discovery on the Ghohta prospect in exploration licence PL492 in the Barents Sea. The well, 7120/1-3, 35km northwest of Snøhvit field, found a 75m oil column in Permian carbonates. Statoil…
Energy company E.ON has said a gas discovery in block 42/28d in the UK southern North Sea is bigger than first thought. A well on the Tolmount discovery, 40km off the coast of East Yorkshire and to the west of the E.ON-operated Babbage gas field…
A more optimistic view of the future of the southern North Sea gas and the hard-pressed East of England offshore supply chain emerged at a recent regional conference in Norwich. Meg Chesshyre reports.Having acquired assets from BP, Shell and BG in 2003 and ExxonMobil fields in 2007…
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