Equinor has resumed crude oil loadings from its Statfjord field in the North Sea following a spill last week, the Norwegian oil and gas company said on Monday.Production from Statfjord remains unaffected, and the offloading of crude is now taking place from an alternative buoy on the field…
An unspecified amount of oil was observed on the sea surface early Wednesday morning in connection with loading oil from buoy to shuttle tanker on the North Sea Statfjord field, Equinor announced.The loading operations were stopped when this was discovered…
The UK based oil and gas company Hurricane Energy PLC said it was unable to complete the buoy hook-up operation in the offshore UK Lancaster field due to problems with the rope.According to a press note, the Aoka Mizu FPSO has been forced to return to the Cromarty Firth…
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a contract by Tullow Ghana Limited on the Jubilee field, offshore Ghana, in water depths of up to 1000 meters.According to a press release from the London-headquartered subsea engineering company, the engineering…
An innovative high-tech wave device currently being built in the U.S. will offer marine-based big data centers the chance to power up while cooling down.The project is a display of Irish marine innovation combined with U.S. engineering prowess…
The exploration and production of deepwater pre-salt plays offshore Brazil have triggered major technological challenges. Some reservoirs are located under 2,000 meters of water and have to be drilled through another 2,000 or so meters of salt…
Floating production solutions firm SBM Offshore today (16 January) closed its $1 billion sale of Turritella, the world’s largest floating production storage and offloading (FPSO), to Royal Dutch Shell. The sale, announced in July 2017…
West of Shetland fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy says work on its Lancaster early production system EPS) floating production unit and turret in Drydocks World, Dubai, are on schedule. The Lancaster EPS is a two-well tieback to a floating production…
Premier Oil's Catcher development is on track for first oil by the end of the year with the project's floating production vessel now moored in field. The BW Catcher vessel, built at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, and owned and operated by BW Offshore…
Bluewater Energy's Aoka Mizu floating production unit has arrived at Drydocks World Dubai shipyard ready for works to prepare it for use on Hurricane Energy's Lancaster field early production system (EPS) development, west of Shetland. Drydocks…
Hurricane Energy has been given approval to move forward with its West of Shetland fractured basement Lancaster field early production system (EPS). The Lancaster EPS is a two-well tieback to a floating production, storage and loading facility…
TechnipFMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract from Hurricane Energy for the Lancaster early production system (EPS), west of Shetland. Hurricane took final investment devision on the project yesterday…
Hurricane Energy has made a final investment decision on its Lancaster early production system (EPS) development and expects regulatory approval shortly. The Lancaster EPS is a two-well tieback to a floating production, storage and loading facility that is expected to produce 17…
Finding a way to tap the North Sea’s estimated 3.4 billion of resources currently locked up in marginal pools has become a perennial problem. Elaine Maslin looks at a past solution and ideas for today outlined at an SUT Aberdeen event earlier this year…
Jerry Lee profiles the development of Brazil’s giant Lula field, offshore Rio de Janeiro. The FPSO Cidade de São Vicente was brought in to perform extended well tests on a Lula NE well in 2011…