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Centrica to invest $77 million in Morecambe Bay assets

May 09, 2017

Centrica is planning a US$77.66 million (£60 million) investment in its operations in Morecambe Bay, in the East Irish Sea, off the west coast of England, to boost output. The campaign will unlock up to a further 3 Bcf of gas under the…

IKM close to deploying resident ROV

May 09, 2017

IKM Subsea has started mobilization to the field of a permanently seabed installed remote operated vehicle (ROV), or residential ROV (RROV). The firm announced the award of a major ROV services contract for the fields Visund and Snorre B in the North Sea last August…

Gemini wind park online

May 09, 2017

The massive, 600 MW Gemini offshore wind park has been opened offshore the Netherlands ahead of schedule and under budget.   Gemini will produce 2.6 TWh of wind power every year, reducing the Netherlands’ CO2 emissions by 1.25 million tons…

Repsol marks Shaw first oil at Montrose

May 09, 2017

First oil is flowing from Repsol Sinopec Resources UK's Shaw field, part of the firm's Montrose Area Redevelopment (MAR) in the Central North Sea. Shaw has been developed as a subsea tie-back to a new bridge-linked production platform…

Lundin gets Alta appraisal approval

May 08, 2017

Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Lundin consent to drill the exploration well 7220/11-4 in a prospect named Alta, in Block 7220 in the Barents Sea. Lundin is the operator for production license 609 in the Barents Sea…

Europa adds 553 MMboe Ervine and Edgeworth to pot

May 08, 2017

Europa Oil & Gas has identified two prospects which could contain up to 553 MMboe in Ireland's South Porcupine Basin.  According to a competent person’s report by ERC Equipoise including, two pre-rift prospects, Ervine and Edgeworth,…

500 MMbbl plus recoverable confirmed in Lancaster

May 08, 2017

A new evaluation on Hurricane Energy's Lancaster field, west of Shetland, has said the field contains 2.3 billion bbl in place, a 120% increase compared to the 2013 estimate, and attributed 2P reserves to the field for the first time. According to the Competent Persons Review (CPR)…

Faroe given nod for Brasse appraisal

May 05, 2017

Faroe Petroleum has been given Norwegian Petroleum Directorate approval to drill appraisal well 31/7-2 S on the Brasse discovery. Well 31/7-2 S will be drilled using the Deepsea Bergen semisubmersible drilling rig in production license 740…

Azinor inks rig for two UKCS wells

May 05, 2017

Private equity backed Azinor Catalyst has awarded a rig contract to Diamond Offshore Drilling for use of the Ocean Guardian semisubmersible rig to drill two wells in Q3 2017. The first exploration well will target the Partridge prospect…

Settlement reached on Hejre

May 04, 2017

According to a 29 March 2016 announcement, DONG Energy and Bayerngas terminated the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the Hejre platform with the supplier consortium. Subsequently, disputes around the termination of contract arose…

VIDEO: Brent Delta arriving at Seaton Port

May 04, 2017

Just days after being lifted from the concrete legs it had stood on since 1976, Shell's Brent Delta platform arrived in one piece at Able Seaton Port, Hartlepool, on Tuesday. The journey followed the record-breaking, 24,200-tonne lift by Allseas' megavessel Pioneering Spirit…

Marathon renews Archer Braes contract, tests ComTrac

May 04, 2017

Marathon Oil has renewed a contract for work on its three Brae platforms in the North Sea with Aberdeen-based oilfield equipment firm Archer.   The contract for platform drilling, maintenance and engineering services was first signed in 1993…

Statoil close to starting Barents Sea exploration program

May 04, 2017

Statoil says it is about to start its exploration program in the Barents Sea testing five to seven new opportunities over the next six months.  The program will test new targets, both in the relatively well known geology around in the Johan Castberg and Hoop/Wisting area…

DNO re-enters North Sea with Origo acquisition

May 04, 2017

Kurdistan focused operator DNO is to take over North Sea-focused Origo Exploration. DNO, which is Oslo-listed, will pick up stakes in 11 exploration and appraisal licenses in the North Sea, seven of which are on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and four on the UK Continental Shelf…

BP extends Amec, Qedi services agreement

May 04, 2017

Amec Foster Wheeler’s completions and commissioning company, qedi, has signed an extension of its global Master Service Agreement with BP, which it has successfully delivered since 2012. The new contract with BP will run for two years through till December 2019…

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