Heather Saucier speaks with Mark Randolph and Susan Gourvenec, professors at the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, about deepwater geotechnical challenges, such as complex carbonates found off the coast of Australia…
Jim McFarlane introduced ROVs to the North Sea industry in the 1970s and went on to pioneer AUV development. Elaine Maslin learned more from the still active industry veteran. Jim McFarlane Photos from International Submarine Engineering…
It was the first floating production unit in the North Sea and it’s still going strong – with a deployment to its latest field, on its 12th contract, due to start next year. Elaine Maslin looks at Teekay Offshore’s Petrojarl I. The Petrojarl I FPSO…
A UK Government funded project to acquire new seismic data over underexplored areas of the North Sea in a bid to boost exploration in the basin has completed. The £20 million program saw WesternGeco acquire 20,000km of new 2D seismic shot over 200…
Chemicals company INEOS has increased acquired the 25% interest in the Clipper South gas field, further increasing its ownership in North Sea fields. INEOS had announced earlier this month its acquisition of a portfolio of natural gas assets…
KBR has been awarded a detailed design engineering and follow-on services contract by SMOE, Singapore, for the topsides facilities for Maersk Oil's HPHT UK North Sea Culzean project. Specifically, KBR will deliver the living quarters…
Statoil’s US$7 billion Mariner heavy oil project in the UK North Sea has been set back a year due to engineering and construction delays, the operator revealed today. The Norwegian operator's Aasta Hansteen project, in the Norwegian Sea…
The North Sea’s first producing oilfield, Argyll, has finally been brought back on stream by operator EnQuest, after being started and decommissioned twice in the past by previous operators. Argyll, now named Alma, and part of EnQuest’s Alma/Galia development…
BG International and SSE E&P UK entered into an agreement with Block 23/16f participants, Serica Energy, Endeavour Energy UK, and EOG Resources UK, to transfer their equity of Block 23/21a in the UK North Sea. Columbus field…
Fred Olsen Energy has formally declared that construction contract for a newbuild semisubmersible rig which was originally destined for development drilling at the Chevron-operated Rosebank oil development in the UK West Shetlands region has been cancelled…
Image: OPITO OPITO has introduced a mobile app designed to give North Sea offshore workforce access to their training and certification records anywhere at any time. In its first year…
Dong Energy has awarded a contract for the provision of cable installation and trenching work for its Race Bank offshore wind farm to DeepOcean. Offshore work will be carried out in 2016/2017 from DeepOcean’s in-house fleet of dedicated cable installation and trenching vessels…
Centrica Energy has started drilling a new well from the York gas field in the southern North Sea, offshore England, after nearly £80million of investment. The new well, the fourth at York, will tap an additional 20 Bcf of gas and extend the life of the field out to 2020…
UK-based energy services company Proserv has secured a £1.6 million plus contract to provide topside control equipment at one of the largest field discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The agreement will see Proserv supplying Aibel…
Dana Petroleum's Western Isles floating production unit will not be on stream until late 2017, some two years later than originally planned, it was confirmed today. In a statement, China's Cosco Corp (Singapore) said it and a European…
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