Premier Oil's Solan field, west of Shetland, was shut-in over concerns about safety on the what was designed to be normally unmanned facility. The Solan oilfield came onstream in April this year. The to be normally unmanned facility…
Aker BP has started production from the Viper-Kobra development, a subsea tieback to the Alvheim floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the Norwegian North Sea. Viper-Kobra consists of two separate discoveries, containing 9 MMboe jointly…
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Ltd. (formerly Talisman Sinopec Energy UK) has exercised options to extend the charter of the Safe Boreas accomodation vessel by 44 days. In mid-March 2016, the Safe Boreas started a 245-day firm operational period at Montrose A in the UK sector of the North Sea…
James Fisher Subsea (JF Subsea), a division of James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS), has reduced inspection downtime to 2% for Shell UK, through use of asset-based remotely operated vehicles (ABROVs) on oil platform inspection programs in the North Sea…
Subsea services firm Bibby Offshore has completed one contract and has started a second for Shell on the major's Corrib gas field, offshore Ireland. The first contract, completed in June , saw Bibby Offshore’s construction support vessel…
UK-based basement explorer Hurricane Energy has spudded its latest well West of Shetland. The firm, which recently completed the successful Lancaster 7 appraisal spudded the Lincoln well on 8 November, the firm said. The Lincoln well…
OMV has entered a deal to sell its UK subsidiary, OMV UK, to Siccar Point Energy for up to US$1 billion in a move that will see the Austrian company give up its stake in the Chevron-operated Rosebank deepwater project in the North Sea. Image from OMV…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Statoil consent to use the Huldra facility in a cold phase in production license 051 and 052B in the North Sea. The consent applies to the use of the facility in a cold phase, after the wells have been permanently plugged and abandoned…
In this video, Chevron shows the process it took for its Alder HPHT field to reach first gas, 41 years after in was discovered. Chevron’s high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) gas condensate Alder field in the Central North Sea started production this week…
Chevron started production at the high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) gas condensate Alder field in the Central North Sea that will help extend the field life of Britannia. Image of the installation of the Alder subsea isolation valve…
Decisions over large field developments in the North Sea continue to be deferred, but some fields are coming through, in the form of subsea tiebacks, and costs have been cut. According to Wood Mackenzie, 2016 to date has seen five final investment decisions made across the North Sea…
Four companies have joined forces to offer a decommissioning service under one collaborative offering. Integrated DECOM, formed by DNV GL, Costain, Axis Well Technology and BMT Cordah, will offer front-end engineering and environmental…
The UK business of CNOOC-owned Nexen Petroleum is planning two high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) exploration wells in the North Sea, with at least one in 2017, and assessing a phase 2 of its massive Buzzard development. Presenting…
Intelligent energy still means quite a lot of different things to different people, including the extent of its role in the oil and gas business. Elaine Maslin reports. In the spotlight at SPE Intelligent Energy: Judson Jacobs…
First oil on EnQuest's Kraken heavy oil field in the UK North Sea is on track for 1H 2017 after the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the project set out for a deepwater anchorage. Vessel operator Bumi Armada…
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