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Repsol changes contracting structure, new contracts

Jul 11, 2016

Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Ltd. has award a number of new contracts for the provision of all maintenance and construction labour, engineering support services and fabric maintenance, covering its offshore assets and the terminal at Flotta…

FPF-1 bound for Stella in two weeks

Jul 11, 2016

Ithaca Energy's FPF-1 floating production facility is set to leave its yard in about two weeks and start first oil from the Greater Stella area in about three months from then.  UK-based independent Ithaca said modifications on the unit in the Remontowa Yard in Gdansk…

Chevron appoints new Europe MD

Jul 11, 2016

Chevron North Sea has appointed Greta Lydecker as managing director of Chevron Upstream Europe, based in Aberdeen, starting today. Lydecker succeeds Craig May, who was recently appointed to the role of vice president, Upstream Capability…

Faroe's Brasse adds pay

Jul 11, 2016

Faroe Petroleum has successfully side-tracked its appraisal well on the Brasse discovery in licence PL740 in the Norwegian North Sea. The side-track well (31/7-1A) was appraising the south-eastern part of the Brasse discovery. Results based on extensive coring…

BP gains Tambar extension

Jul 08, 2016

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate is giving BP approval to use the facility on the Tambar field in the North Sea until 1 January 2022. This coincides with the expiry of production licence 065. The lifetime was set at 15 years in the plan for development and operation (PDO)…

Petrofac takes on Hurricane well operations role

Jul 08, 2016

Petrofac has been appointed well operator by Hurricane Energy in a three-year contract to support wells located West of Shetland. Petrofac is the first outsourced well operator to manage a drilling campaign in the UK Continental Shelf…

Tullow fails at Rome

Jul 07, 2016

Tullow Oil Norge failed to find any hydrocarbons at the Rome prospect in the Central North Sea, and will now plug and abandon exploration well 16/5-6 in production licence PL776. The well was drilled to a total vertical depth of 2319m…

Norway strike action averted

Jul 07, 2016

The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association and the Norwegian Union of Energy Workers (Safe) reached agreement on the well service pay agreement during the evening of 6 July. Strike action has thereby been averted. “The mediation process was demanding…

Wintershall to drill wildcat with Borgland Dolphin

Jul 06, 2016

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for well 35/11-20 A, to be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling facility, after completing the drilling of wildcat well 16/5-6 for Tullow Oil Norge in production license 776…

Trelleborg inks BorWin3 floatover installation

Jul 06, 2016

Trelleborg’s engineered products operation has been awarded a contract by Petrofac for its first floatover installation of an offshore converter platform - BorWin3 wind farm project. BorWin3 topside illustration…

Shell updates Brent decommissioning plan

Jul 06, 2016

Oil major Shell has set out its plans for decommissioning the Brent field facilities in the UK North Sea, including leaving its foundations in place.  The firm, which has already spent 10 years working on decommissioning the four platforms…

BP picks Bibby for North Sea works

Jul 06, 2016

Subsea services firm Bibby Offshore has secured a contract with BP for the diving support vessel Bibby Topaz.  The 15-day project, due to start next month, will see the vessel working on four BP operations across three of its North Sea assets…

Scientists to research CO2 trapping

Jul 06, 2016

Scientists at the University of Strathclyde have secured funding for a four-year project to study the ability of complex rock strata beneath the North Sea to trap carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) securely.  Their findings will help to provide…

Hurricane spuds Lancaster

Jul 06, 2016

UK-based fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy has spudded its 205/21a-7 Lancaster well, west of Shetland. The well is a pilot well, the first in a two-well program, designed to refine the Lancaster resource range, provide a second…

Dana, EnQuest in Eagle dispute

Jul 05, 2016

EnQuest’s Eagle oil discovery in the Greater Kittiwake area (GKA) in the North Sea is getting some heat from Dana Petroleum, after the company said that EnQuest did not have the authority to drill the well. Image from EnQuest…

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