Calgary-based Talisman Energy has said it may suffer writedowns on its UK North Sea assets in Q4 due to battling production efficiency and cost issues on its assets in the basin. In its third-quarter report, Talisman said its UK North…
Obsolescence is not a new issue for the offshore energy industry, however, it remains an insidious creeping plague, which hides in the wake of new and changing technologies to take everyone by surprise around 10 years into the system life cycle…
Simon Frost explains the role of engineered composite repairs in late life asset management. A tubular brace, having suffered wall loss through external corrosion, was reinstated to its original…
Weatherford discusses how a collaborative approach helped in the planning and execution of a North Sea drilling with liner operation. Fig. 1: Pore, frac, overburden and mud-pressures in the well…
The naming ceremony for four DSME semisubmersibles was held in H quay on 24 October. The rigs, hull numbers 3031, 3032, 3034, and 3035, were ordered by Norway’s Songa Offshore Company to be operated by Statoil. Around 290 guests attended the naming ceremony…
Statoil received consent to use the Songa Dee mobile drilling facility to permanently plug exploration well 34/10-52 A/B, according to the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway. Well 34/10-52 A/B is located at the Statoil-operated Gullfaks Sør…
A consultation period over the environmental impact assessment for the giant Johan Sverdrup development and its power supply proposal has started, Statoil announced today (November 3). Johan Sverdrup is one of the biggest discoveries…
CAN Group, has been awarded a £4 million contract to provide asset integrity services in the North Sea as the firm also announces international growth. The Aberdeen-headquartered company has secured work with Fairfield Energy aboard the Dunlin platform…
China's CNOOC has announced first oil on the US$3.3 billion UK North Sea Golden Eagle Area Development (GEAD). The development, comprising separate production and wellhead platforms and two subsea production systems, is producing about 18…
Total E&P Norge encountered oil after drilling an appraisal well on the Garantiana prospect in production license 554 in the Norwegian North Sea. Appraisal well 34/6-3 S was drilled on Garantiana and exploration well 34/6-3 A, a sidetrack well…
Mooring failure rates are still higher than industry targets. Assessing past failures could help industry understanding, say Will Brindley and Andrew Cornley. The Blackford Dolphin semisubmersible mobile offshore drilling unit Images from DNV GL…
November’s Faces of the Industry takes us to the North Sea market with Alasdair Buchanan, COO of LR Senergy. With a career spanning more than 30 years, including leadership roles at BJ Services and Halliburton, Alasdair has earned an impressive track record in international operations…
Apache North Sea Ltd. awarded STATS Group a contract to safely isolate the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) in the North Sea. The contract is for subsea isolation valves (SSIV) and piping spools to be safely installed and leak tested. This…
The latest EIC Monitor report paints a mixed picture of activity across the global upstream sectors in 3Q 2014, with a large decline in upstream activity. The global oil and gas industry has followed a gentle downward trajectory of project…
The 3Q 2014 Oil & Gas UK Business Sentiment Index published on 30 October shows that optimism in the sector continues to decline with a drop from two points above zero on the -50 to +50 index to seven points below zero. Published quarterly…
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