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Gas Reserves Estimate Goes Up at Shell’s Selene Prospect in North Sea

Apr 16, 2025

Shell has revealed ‘significantly better’ porosity and permeability properties at its Selene gas prospect in the North Sea, following the analysis of the data from the well drilled in 2024, prompting its partner Deltic Energy to raise estimates of recoverable gas reserves by 33%…

Norway Grants Permit for Aker BP’s Drilling Ops in North Sea

Apr 15, 2025

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has issued Aker BP a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.The Permit is for wellbore 30/11-16 S in production license 873, operated by Aker BP with 47.7% working interest.Aker BP’s partners…

EnerMech Gets Anasuria FPSO Services Job in North Sea

Apr 14, 2025

Energy industry services firm EnerMech has been awarded a three-year cranes and lifting services contract for the Anasuria floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, east of Aberdeen in the central North Sea.Secured following a competitive tendering process…

Tyra II Starts Operating at Full Technical Capacity

Apr 10, 2025

Denmark’s largest offshore gas development, the Tyra hub in the North Sea, has been restarted with full technical capacity achieved on the facilities, following the completion of repairs which impacted the production.BlueNord, the partner in…

UK First: CO2 Injection Test for Poseidon CCS Wraps Up at Perenco’s North Sea Field

Apr 09, 2025

UK’s first CO2 injection test for the Poseidon carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, which will store CO2 at Perenco-operated Leman gas field in Southern North Sea, has been completed.The test involved the injection of CO2 into a depleted natural gas reservoir in the UK’s Southern North Sea…

Tyra II Gas Development Set to Go Full Steam from Next Week

Apr 07, 2025

The Tyra II project in the North Sea, Denmark’s largest offshore gas development, is expected to start operating at its full capacity from next week, following the issues with the equipment which have restricted its production.Since March 4…

Imrandd Expands Work Scope for Apache’s North Sea Assets

Apr 03, 2025

Industrial data and engineering consultancy Imrandd has secured contract with Apache North Sea, expanding scope to include pipeline capability.The renewal extends Imrandd’s ongoing provision of integrity data analytics and onshore integrity…

Serica Energy Lowers 2025 Output Forecast Due to Triton FPSO Issues

Apr 01, 2025

British oil and gas group Serica Energy lowered its outlook for 2025 total production on Tuesday, pressured by production delays at its Triton floating production storage and offloading unit in the North Sea.Serica has increased production through acquisitions and investments in recent years…

NEO Energy and Repsol to Merge UK Oil and Gas Assets

Mar 27, 2025

NEO Energy and Repsol Resources UK have entered into strategic merger, creating one of the largest U.K. North Sea independent oil and gas companies under the name of NEO NEXT.Under the terms of the transaction, the combined business will be…

OMV Bites Dust at Horatio Well in North Sea

Mar 26, 2025

OMV and its partners have drilled a dry well on the Horatio prospect in the North Sea, using Transocean’s Transocean Norge semi-submersible rig.The well 35/6-6, dubbed Horatio, is located in production license 1109, operated by OMV with 30% working interest…

DNO Finds Oil and Gas in Northern North Sea

Mar 26, 2025

Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO has made an important oil and gas discovery in Northern North Sea license PL1182 S, using Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Yantai semi-submersible rig.The discovery was made in Paleocene injectite sandstones of excellent…

Prosafe’s Safe Caledonia Flotel to Mobilize for Ithaca’s Captain Field in June

Mar 24, 2025

Offshore accommodation rig provider Prosafe has published an operational update for February 2025, achieving fleet utilization of 57%.The company’s accommodation rigs Safe Notos, Safe Zephyrus and Safe Concordia operated at full capacity during the period…

All Clear for Equinor to Drill North Sea Exploration Well

Mar 24, 2025

Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil), the country’s offshore industry safety watchdog, has granted consent to Equinor for exploration drilling in an oil and gas block in the North Sea.The consent is for block 24/11, part of production license 169…

Triton FPSO Not Expected to Come Back Online Before May

Mar 19, 2025

U.K.-based oil firm Serica Energy has informed that Triton floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is not expected to come back online before May 2025, as the company works on finding a long-term solution to stabilize production with the operator Dana Petroleum…

OKEA Takes Stake in Aker BP-Operated Tverrdal Prospect in North Sea

Mar 14, 2025

Norwegian oil and gas company OKEA has signed an agreement with Aker BP to acquire a 35% working interest in Tverrdal exploration well in the North Sea.OKEA secured the stake in the southern part of PL1102 / PL1102B, containing the Tverrdal prospect…

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