Following the fate of the global oil industry, the short-term outlook for the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) market is set to be sluggish – but long-term these machines will play a key role in deepwater development and the technology they use is set for a leap forward…
Statoil senior vice president Tove Stuhr Sjøblom has taken over as managing director of Statoil Production UK. As the new head of the company’s Aberdeen office, Sjøblom is responsible for Statoil’s upstream development and production activities in the UK and Ireland…
Norwegian authorities performed a search and seizure of Sevan Drilling’s offices last week, after corrupt activities between Sevan Drilling and Brazil’s Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) were exposed in an independent external review conducted by Sevan Marine…
Total has agreed to sell a 15% stake in the Gina Krog field in Norway to Tellus Petroleum, a subsidiary of Sequa Petroleum for NOK 1.4 billion. 'As a result of a full comparative review of our global asset portfolio and in particular of our vast portfolio of opportunities in Norway…
In this video, Aker Solutions talks about the vision of the world’s first subsea gas compression system to the Statoil-operated Asgard field offshore Norway. The NOK 19 billion (US$2.34 billion) Åsgard subsea gas compression project…
Lundin Petroleum has started drilling exploration well 16/1-25 S on the Rolvsnes prospect in PL338C about 6km south of the Edvard Grieg field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Well 16/1-25 S will explore the Rolvsnes area, between the Edvard Grieg field and the Luno II discovery…
Statoil has, on behalf of the Johan Sverdrup partners, awarded Aibel in Norway the contract for construction of the converter station at Haugsneset and required construction site work for land-based power supply to the field. The contract covers engineering…
The Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST) will be offering free student membership to all students (undergraduate and postgraduate), cadets and apprentices for the duration of their studies or training. This…
E.ON is divesting 100% of its Norwegian exploration and production (E&P) business in a US$1.6 billion deal with Germany’s DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG. Image from E.ON. Upon the terms of the contract…
Det norske oljeselskap has entered into an agreement to acquire Svenska Petroleum Exploration for US$75 million on a cash free, debt free basis. Svenska has 15 employees in Norway, of which all will be transferred to Det norske. Svenska holds 13 licenses in Norway…
Jee Ltd, an independent multi-discipline subsea engineering and training firm, has secured a contract extension with BP for the provision of integrity management services and in-line inspection engineering support in the North Sea. The contract involves project coordination…
Newbuild flexible lay and construction vessel, Skandi Africa, has joined the industry leading Technip fleet, following the signing of the on-hire agreement in Schiedam, Netherlands on 5 October. The ship, owned by DOF Subsea, has now begun her five-year charter commitment…
Norwegian Energy Co. ASA (Noreco) announces that Tommy Sundt is stepping down as CEO of Noreco effective immediately. Sundt will, however, continue to fill the role as general manager for the Norwegian operations until the end of 2015. Since joining Noreco in September 2014…
More than 40 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from World War II have been safely detonated or removed from the Norfolk coast, having been discovered on the export cable route for DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm. Image…
The BlueTEC Texel Tidal energy project partnership is planning to install a second larger turbine on its system after the first months of operating the BlueTEC tidal energy platform were seen to be a success, supplying electricity into the Dutch national grid…