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Lundin wildcat comes up dry

Aug 20, 2013

Lundin Norway AS has plugged and abandoned well 16/4-7, northeast of the Sleipner Øst field in the central North Sea off Norway, after it was found to be dry. The objective of the well, in 91m deep water, was to prove petroleum in Jurassic…

UK business secretary to lead Offshore Europe keynote

Aug 20, 2013

Vince Cable, MP, secretary of state for business, innovation and skills (BIS) is to speak at SPE Offshore Europe 2013 at one of the conference’s keynote sessions. The session, The technology imperative – collaborating today to realise the next 50 years of North Sea potential…

OMV strikes US$2.65bn deal

Aug 20, 2013

Austrian energy group OMV is to buy Norwegian and UK North Sea assets from Norway’s Statoil in a US$2.65billion deal. The deal will see OMV acquire 19% interest in the producing Gullfaks field and 24% in the Gudrun field, both oil and gas fields offshore the Norwegian Continental Shelf…

Venko invests in Great Yarmouth

Aug 20, 2013

Dutch international coating contractor Venko, which specialises in fabric maintenance, has set up its first UK base in the Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft (New Anglia) Enterprise Zone.  The company was attracted by the incentives offered…

Total contracts Ocean Installer

Aug 20, 2013

Total E&P UK has awarded Ocean Installer a contract for the recovery of casing at the Tomintoul location, west of the Shetland Islands.  The scope of the work involves the cutting and recovery of 472m of 20in. downhole casing from the seabed…

Senergy awarded Statoil framework agreement

Aug 19, 2013

Senergy was awarded a framework agreement by Statoil ASA to provide geotechnical representatives for site investigation work. The agreement, which has been secured through Senergy’s survey and geo-engineering division, is for projects on the Norwegian continental shelf…

Siemens commissions two wind service vessels

Aug 17, 2013

In August 2013, Siemens Energy signed a chartering agreement with ship owner Esvagt A/S for two new offshore wind service vessels that will incorporate significant advancements in logistics, efficiency and operational capabilities. The vessels…

Huisman opens Norwegian office

Aug 15, 2013

Huisman opened a new office in Bergen, Norway: Huisman Norge AS. The new representational office is a 100% subsidiary of Huisman and is set up to meet the increasing demand within the Norwegian offshore market. This is the first Huisman office in Scandinavia…

Senior officials to open Offshore Europe

Aug 15, 2013

Senior representatives of the UK and Scottish governments will address the audience at Europe’s largest oil and gas conference and exhibition, SPE Offshore Europe 2013, in Aberdeen this September. More than 1,500 companies are exhibiting at the event…

E.ON: Tolmount bigger than expected

Aug 14, 2013

Energy company E.ON has said a gas discovery in block 42/28d in the UK southern North Sea is bigger than first thought. A well on the Tolmount discovery, 40km off the coast of East Yorkshire and to the west of the E.ON-operated Babbage gas field…

Jan De Nul orders multipurpose vessel

Aug 14, 2013

The Jan De Nul Group has ordered a new vessel at the Uljanik Shipyard in Pula, Croatia. The vessel, which will be 138m-long with a deadweight of 10,500-tonne, will be a multipurpose vessel, able to carry out trenching and offshore support…

Subsea 7 post record backlog

Aug 14, 2013

Subsea 7 has posted a record backlog of US$10.4 billion for Q2 2013, with tendering continuing to be high into Q3. But profits were hit by a US$300 million loss provision on the Guará-Lula NE project, offshore Brazil. Jean Cahuzac…

Golden Eagle jackets delivered

Aug 13, 2013

Heerema Fabrication Group’s Vlissingen fabrication yard has completed the fabrication of two jackets for the Golden Eagle Development project of Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd. With the departure of  Nexen’s 6,400-ton PUQ (Production Utilities…

Eni, Mozambique reach tax deal

Aug 13, 2013

Eni S.p.A. CEO Paolo Scaroni and Eni E&P COO Claudio Descalzi met with Mozambique President Armando Guebuza today in Changara, the mineral district of Tete province in western Mozambique, to discuss Eni’s ongoing activities and projects in the country…

Faroe Petroleum pays $22.5M for North Sea acquisitions

Aug 13, 2013

Faroe Petroleum completed the acquisition of a 10% non-operated interest in the BP-operated East Foinaven oil field and a 0.5% interest in the West of Shetland Pipeline System, both from Marubeni Oil & Gas (North Sea) Ltd . The net consideration payable for the acquisition of the interests…

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