Teekay's Sevan Hummingbird FPSO is set to leave Spirit Energy's Chestnut oil field in the North Sea after 13 years of oil production at the site.According to notice to mariners issued by Teekay on Thursday, the FPSO is currently being disconnected from its moorings…
British oil major BP has awarded a drilling contract to Stena Drilling for the use of its Stena IceMAX drillship in Canada.The contract is for one well and is scheduled to start in 2023.BP will use the drillship to drill a well off the coast of Newfoundland…
Shell's Edinburgh exploration well (30/14a-5) drilled in offshore UK license P255 has failed to encounter commercial quantities of hydrocarbons and is being plugged and abandoned.The news was shared by DNO, the Norwegian oil and gas company…
Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has awarded the drilling contractor Valaris a 540-day drilling contract for the Valaris DS-17 drillship. The offshore drilling contract is for operations in Brazil and is scheduled to start in 2023.Under…
Offshore drilling firm Valaris said this week it has recently secured offshore drilling contracts and extensions worth $466 million in total, with the majority of the new backlog filled by a $327 million drillship deal with Equinor in Brazil…
Norwegian oil firm Equinor has exercised further work for Odfjell Drilling's Deepsea Stavanger semi-submersible drilling rig.The Deepsea Stavanger now has six remaining wells to be drilled which are expected to occupy the rig into Q2 2023. Equinor…
Oil and gas firm Kistos has acquired a 20% stake in the Greater Laggan Area producing offshore gas fields in the UK and associated infrastructure alongside various interests in certain other exploration licenses, including a 25% interest in the Benriach prospect…
UK-based oil and gas firm Serica Energy has started drilling at the North Eigg offshore exploration well in the UK North Sea.The Well 3/24c-NE1 was spudded at 04:30 Monday morning using Transocean Paul B. Loyd Jr. harsh environment semi-submersible drilling rig…
The U.S. offshore wind sector continues its journey to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030 and 110 GW by 2050, Intelatus Global Partners said in its July U.S. offshore wind report.Two major OCS projects with around 940 MW of capacity have reached FID and have started onshore construction…
First gas has started flowing from DeNovo Energy's Zandolie field offshore Trinidad & Tobago, developed using a wind- and solar-powered unmanned platform.Zandolie, which took $52 million to develop, is DeNovo's second offshore field development…
Offshore wind installation services firm Seaway 7 has awarded CRP Subsea a contract to provide 140 NjordGuard cable protection systems and bellmouths for Changfang and Xidao (CFXD) offshore wind farms located off the west coast of Taiwan. The…
Gas leaks were reported at Equinor's Sleipner offshore field on Monday, leading to the shutdown of parts of the gas field located in the North Sea, offshore Norway.According to Equinor, on Monday morning, gas leaked in a contained area related…
The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum has approved Aker BP's plan for the development and operation of the Frosk field in the Alvheim area, in the North Sea, offshore Norway.The Frosk field, discovered in 2019, is located around 25 kilometers southwest of the Alvheim FPSO…
Shell UK Ltd has awarded Maersk Drilling a contract to supply the harsh-environment jack-up rig Maersk Resilient for the drilling of the Pensacola well in the UK part of the North Sea.The contract is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2022…
The U.S. Interior Department has recommended to the White House that all federal offshore oil and gas drilling auctions over the next five years be located in the Gulf of Mexico, where the drilling industry has already been focused for decades…