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New Subsea Wireless IP Camera Technology

Apr 15, 2019

Next generation subsea technology deployed for the first time in the North Sea has helped to improve safety and reduce costcfor an offshore oil and gas project, said Scotland based WFS Technologies.The firms's new cutting-edge computing and…

More Must Be Done to Tackle Well Losses

Apr 17, 2019

North Sea oil and gas operators are failing to make the most from their existing well stocks, with some 30% (600) shut-in and 33 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) lost due to well losses – the equivalent of a new west of Shetland field…

Europe Invests $30bln in Wind in 2018

Apr 19, 2019

Europe invested a total of EUR27bn (USD 30.34bln) in new wind farms in 2018, allowing it finance a record amount of new wind energy capacity, according to European trade body WindEurope.Europe invested EUR 10.3 billion in new offshore wind farms with a combined capacity of 4…

Nord Stream 2 Expecting Denmark Approval

Mar 25, 2019

The Russian-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline company expects to receive approval from Danish authorities for a 180-km stretch of the pipeline under the Baltic Sea in time to finish the pipeline by the end of 2019 as planned, a spokesman said on Monday…

Equinor Delays Mariner Start-up Again

Apr 10, 2019

The operator of the Mariner heavy oil field, one of Britain's largest offshore developments in years, postponed its start-up to summer 2019 on Wednesday for safety checks on the platform's electrical couplings.Originally due to come on stream…

Serica Energy Abandons Rowallan Well

Apr 05, 2019

Serica Energy, UK oil and gas company operating mainly in the North Sea, said that the Rowallan well was drilled down to a depth of 4,641 metres and after an unsuccessful result, it will now be plugged and abandoned.It encountered a 182-metre…

McDermott Partners with Zamil Offshore

Apr 02, 2019

McDermott International announced on Tuesday it has signed a joint venture agreement with the Middle East's largest offshore and marine services provider Zamil Offshore in a move that aims to capitalize on a rising maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) market in Saudi Arabia…

EIVA Launches ROV Steering Software

Apr 09, 2019

NaviSuite Mobula is a new software product from EIVA offering advanced steering capabilities to remotely operated vehicle (ROV) owners.The market for the micro- and mini-ROV is under drastic change, with more suppliers entering the market, and prices for the ROVs dropping significantly…

Aker Solutions, Fuglesangs Create FASTSubsea

Apr 10, 2019

Norway’s Aker Solutions has agreed to create a new subsea multiphase boosting company with subsea technology specialist FSubsea.The companies, through new 50/50 owned business FASTSubsea (FAST standing for Fuglesangs Aker Solutions Technology)…

NPD Report on High North Offshore

Apr 03, 2019

Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), Norwegian government agency responsible for the regulation of the petroleum resources on the Norwegian continental shelf, has presented a report on petroleum activity in the High North at the Barents Sea conference…

Total's Kaombo Sul FPSO Starts Production

Apr 02, 2019

Total announced Tuesday it has started producing from Kaombo Sul, the second floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit of the Kaombo project, located on Block 32, 260 kilometers off the coast of Angola's capital Luanda, in water depths ranging from 1…

Total E&P Nederland Hires Vroon Vessel

Mar 29, 2019

The Dutch provider oil and gas exploration and production services Total E&P Nederland BV has chosen one of Vroon’s walk-to-work vessels to provide logistics support to offshore assets in the Southern North Sea (SNS).Vroon, the Dutch company specializing in offshore and shipping business…

Neptune, BP, Japex Reach FID for Seagull

Mar 28, 2019

Neptune Energy said on Thursday it has agreed with partners BP and Japex on a final investment decision (FID) for the Seagull oil and gas field in the UK North Sea.Neptune, which acquired its 35% interest in Seagull from Apache in 2018, operates the field…

Pioneering Spirit Shifts to the North Sea

Mar 06, 2019

The world's largest heavy lift and pipelay vessel, Pioneering Spirit, will take a temporary pause from Nord Stream 2 pipelaying activities in the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone to perform planned platform lift work in the North Sea.The Allseas-owned vessel…

Martin Linge Hooked Up to Shore Power

Mar 20, 2019

The Martin Linge platform in December 2018 was hooked up to receive shore power via the world’s longest high-voltage alternating-current (HVAC) sea cable measuring 162 kilometers from the onshore substation at Kollsnes north of Bergen to the platform…

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