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£16.9 billion UKCS decommissioning spend to 2024

Nov 18, 2015

Forecast total oil and gas infrastructure decommissioning spending on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) will reach £16.9 billion over the next decade, according to new industry estimates.  The latest figure, for the period to 2024, is an increase of £2…

Visuray completes first commercial well operation

Nov 17, 2015

Visuray announced a first commercial application of their X-ray wireline technology for downhole imaging in wells filled with opaque fluid. In a well, managed by TAQA Energy in Holland, Visuray’s VR90 tool successfully imaged the top of a coiled tubing disconnect with millimeter accuracy…

E Plug wins ICoTA award

Nov 17, 2015

E Plug has been named 2015 winner of the Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA) European Chapter’s Innovation Award. Scott Mitchell, Chair of the European Chapter of ICoTA (left), presents the award to Thomas Johansen…

TGS cuts staff, revalues some multi-client data

Nov 17, 2015

Geocsience firm TGS is to cut staffing by a further 130, or 16%, after continuing to review its cost base amid the ongoing weak market conditions. Image from TGS. The firm says…

NEL tackles heavy oil

Nov 17, 2015

NEL, the UK-based flow measurement research and development specialist, has launched a joint industry project (JIP) to meet an urgent industry requirement to address the challenges of accurately measuring highly viscous, multiphase flows…

New JV to develop Portuguese floating wind farm

Nov 16, 2015

EDP Renewables (EDPR), Mitsubishi (through its subsidiary Diamond Generating Europe), Chiyoda (through its subsidiary Chiyoda Generating Europe), Engie and Repsol entered into an agreement to implement a floating offshore wind farm off the coast of Northern Portugal…

CIS completes Technip subsea piling campaign

Nov 16, 2015

Conductor Installation Services (CIS) successfully completed its second subsea piling campaign for Technip in Norway.  Deck Layout close-up. Image from Technip. CIS used its remotely operated Subsea Piling System…

Green light for Edvard Grieg

Nov 16, 2015

Norway's Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has given Lundin the green light to start production from the Edvard Grieg field. The field is in production license 338 in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. According to the NPD, the…

Greater Stella remains on track

Nov 16, 2015

Ithaca Energy's delayed Greater Stella Area development remains on track for first production in Q2 next year. In a trading update this morning, Ithaca says sailaway of the FPF-1 floating production facility from the Remontowa Shipyard in Gdansk…

Premier Oil sells Norway business

Nov 16, 2015

Norway's Det Norske has bought UK-based independent explorer Premier Oil's Norwegian assets for US$120 million, just a month after agreeing to buy Svenksa Petroleum for $75 million. The Premier Oil assets include the Vette development…

Weatherford, Maersk Training enter partnership

Nov 12, 2015

Weatherford Secure Drilling Services and Maersk Training have entered a strategic partnership to enhance scenario-based training and competency for critical wells. The training will provide Weatherford, operator and rig-crew personnel with…

READ bags Maersk contract

Nov 12, 2015

Maersk Oil awarded Aberdeen-based production and integrity evaluation specialist READ Cased Hole a multi-million dollar contract, five-year contract to be the primary service provider for cased hole logging services, including production evaluation and well integrity domains…

IOG's Skipper gets 6% increase

Nov 12, 2015

Independent Oil and Gas’s (IOG) Skipper discovery in the UK North Sea received an increase of recoverable resources by 6% to 34.1 MMbbl. Map of Skipper. From IOG. Skipper, currently in the advanced stages of planning…

Azinor joins Xcite's North Sea gambit

Nov 12, 2015

Xcite Energy has agreed a deal with Azinor Catalyst that will see Azinor carry out at technical evaluation of the blocks in its license P1979 in the North Sea in return for a 40% stake in the license.  Block P1979 contains blocks 9/4a…

SKF installs magnetic bearings at Åsgard

Nov 10, 2015

SKF supplied magnetic bearings for use in the world’s first subsea gas compression system at the Åsgard gas field off the Norwegian coast. As part of the subsea gas compression system, the bearings will contribute to recovering additional…

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