First Integrated Solutions, an Aberdeen-based oil and gas service company, has seen significant transformations over the past six months due to the firms increasing investment activity. In February, First Integrated Solutions was created…
Premier Oil is ramping up towards offshore installation work on its Solan field development in Block 205/26a, in 135m water depth, west of Shetland, in the UK North Sea. Construction and onshore commissioning of the four-legged Solan…
BATS Wireless (BATS) and specialist distributor Purdicom have announced a new offshore communications network project, with one of Purdicom's service provider partners, for a multinational oil company. The project calls for BATS to provide its state-of-the-art DVM-50 systems…
An independent commission has determined that radical fiscal and regulatory change is an absolute necessity to ensure that the remaining hydrocarbons on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) are fully exploited, in order to deliver the maximum economic contribution to the nation…
First production from an appraisal well has extended the southern limits of the high-pressure/high-temperature (HPHT) Jade gas condensate field in the UK Central North Sea, Houston-headquartered ConocoPhillips announced today. The Maersk…
Claxton Engineering Services Ltd., an Acteon company, has completed the first rigless removal of a stuck bottom hole assembly (BHA). The work was completed during a slot recovery operation using an innovative approach at Maersk’s Tyra East field in the Danish sector of the North Sea…
Xcite Energy has agreed a memorandum of understanding with Norway's Aibel, setting out the principles for executing the engineering, procurement and construction self installing platform for its UK North Sea Bentley heavy oil field. The platform…
Total E&P UK has picked Technip to perform work on the West of Shetland Edradour subsea development. The development will form part of a new West of Shetland hub, taking in the Laggan-Tormore, Edradour, and Glenlivit fields, all…
UK-based exploration junior Enegi Oil says a self-installing floating tower (SIFT) would be the best development option for the central North Sea Phoenix discovery. Enegi’s preference for a SIFT follows a work program by Azimuth Limited…
A cost reduction program has meant Total has now decided to move forward with its West of Shetland Edradour subsea development, the French oil major said today. Edradour, in Block 206/4a, in about 300m water depth, 75km northwest of the Shetlands…
Exploration drilling started on the Lupus oil prospect in production license 507 in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea yesterday. The well, 31/10-1, is about 35km south of the Oseberg field and is being drilled by the Borgland Dolphin semisubmersible drilling rig (pictured)…
Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiaries Keppel Shipyard and Keppel Singmarine Pte have secured contracts worth a total of S$368 million for North Sea and Caspian Sea projects. Keppel Shipyard has won the contract for the conversion…
Premier Oil has sold interest in six Central North Sea offshore licenses to Hungary’s MOL Group for US$130 million, the duo announced on 30 June 2014. The sale includes non-operated equity stakes in the Nexen-operated Scott (21.84%), Rochelle (15%) and Telford (1…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Norwegian exploration and development company, Det norske oljeselskap ASA, a drilling permit for well 2/9-5 S. Well 2/9-5 S will be drilled from the Mærsk Giant jackup drilling facility at position 56°24’45…
Statoil (UK) has awarded two five-year contracts to two UK firms for the Mariner ultra-heavy oil field, in the East Shetland Platform in part-block 9/11a in the UK North Sea. Aker Solutions' Aberdeen operations will perform maintenance and modification services for the US$7 billion project…
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