Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has awarded a decommissioning contract to Maersk Supply Service (MSS) for the Juliet field in the UK Southern North Sea.Neptune Energy said that Maersk Supply Service would deploy innovative technology to reduce…
Energy industry consultancy and provider DNV is working with Wintershall Noordzee and the OTH Regensburg University of Applied Sciences to explore how existing natural gas pipelines in the southern North Sea can be used for future carbon dioxide (CO2) transport…
Exports of Norway's major crude stream Johan Sverdrup will drop sharply in January to 471,000 barrels per day (bpd) compared with 536,000 bpd in December, a loading program showed on Tuesday.The program is the smallest since July this year.…
North Sea-focused oil and gas firm Deltic Energy has informed that the 3D seismic survey over offshore Licence P2428 and surrounding areas in the UK North Sea has now been completed. Deltic said the data from the survey would be key to de-risking future drilling on the license…
Ocean bottom node seismic data acquisition firm Magseis Fairfield has said it has secured a conditional award of a 4D OBN survey in the North Sea.The survey will be conducted with Magseis Fairfield’s Z700 technology, with the start-up is expected in the second quarter of 2022…
Energy company Kistos has spudded the Q11-B appraisal well offshore the Netherlands using Borr Drilling's Prospector-1 jack-up drilling rig.Kistos, the operator of the block containing the well, said that the Q11-B appraisal well would take a minimum of 6 weeks to drill and test…
About 300 employees working for Ponticelli UK and Semco Maritime aboard TotalEnergies' North Sea offshore facilities in the UK have voted in favor of a strike after a dispute over cuts to terms and conditions, Unite the union said Tuesday.Unite’s…
Oil and gas industry trade bodies OGUK, Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, BVEG, NOGEPA, and Oil Gas Denmark representing five countries across Europe 'pioneering lower-carbon oil and gas in the North Sea' have signed a formal agreement to…
OOS Group, a Dutch-based offshore services company, known to Offshore Engineer readers for its semi-submersible heavy lift crane and accommodation vessels, has developed a semi-submersible mussel farm (SMF) to grow mussels in the North Sea. The SMF will also feature solar panels…
Offshore seismic services companies PGS and Magseis Fairfield have agreed to collaborate in the growing hybrid towed streamer and OBN seismic market. The hybrid market is defined as the simultaneous use of towed streamer and ocean bottom node acquisition technologies…
Danish drilling contactor Maersk Drilling has been selected as the preferred supplier of drilling rig services for the Greensand offshore carbon storage project offshore Denmark.The framework agreement for drilling rig services has been signed with the Nini Joint Venture…
The UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded a carbon dioxide (CO2) appraisal and storage licence (CS licence) to oil and gas company Harbour Energy, recently created via a merger between Premier Oil and Chrysaor.The license will cover an…
The UK-focused oil company Tailwind has completed the drilling of the Evelyn field development well, at the Triton Cluster on the UK North Sea.In February this year, Tailwind sanctioned the Evelyn field project in the North sea, following approval by the UK oil and gas regulator OGA…
Baron Oil has officially increased its stake in a UK North Sea offshore block containing the Dunrobin prospect, dubbed one of the few remaining sizeable undrilled UK North Sea targets.Baron Oil said back in August that oil companies Corallian and Upland…
Investing in new North Sea gas resources is essential for the UK to avoid shortages, price shocks, and rising import costs, industry body OGUK has warned, adding that, without fresh investment, North Sea gas production will plummet by 75% by 2030…