Repsol Sinopec Resources UK has exercised a further four weeks of options for the Safe Boreas semisubmersible accommodation vessel, says Prosafe. The Safe Boreas will continue operations for Repsol Sinopec Resources UK at Montrose A in…
Statoil submitted development plans for two Norwegian Sea fields that are set to come onstream in 2020, with an investment of some US$2.3 billion (NOK 19.8 billion). The Bauge discovery will be tied in to the upgraded Njord field…
Wintershall has received consent from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use the Deepsea Stavanger semisubmersible to drill six production wells on the Maria field. Wintershall Norge is the operator of the Maria field oil and gas field at Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea…
Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is to speak at the opening plenary session at SPE Offshore Europe 2017, which is being held in Aberdeen from 5-8 September 2017. van Beurden will address several hundred oil and gas industry professionals in…
Fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy is closer to proving its Halifax discovery is linked to its Lancaster field, forming a single field, which would be the UK's largest undeveloped discovery on the UK Continental Shelf. Hurricane…
Wood Group has been awarded a US$50 million contract with Premier Oil, to deliver topside operations and maintenance services to the Balmoral floating production vessel (FPU) in the central North Sea and the Solan installation, West of Shetland…
North Sea independent explorer Jersey Oil & Gas says the Verbier prospect, due to be drilled by Statoil this summer, contains 162 MMboe mean prospective resources. The estimate - and increase on a previous 118 MMboe estimate - was made…
First production from Maersk Oil's Flyndre field, which straddles the UK and Norwegian North Sea boundaries, started yesterday (26 March). The field is a 25km single well subsea tieback to the Repsol Sinopec-operated Clyde platform, from which it is then exported via the Fulmar platform…
Statoil and Statkraft completed a deal that has increased the Norwegian giant’s share in the Dogger Bank Offshore Wind development to 37.5%. Image of Sheringham Shoal off the coast of Norfolk, from Statoil…
Aberdeen-based visual asset management (VAM) firm Return To Scene is conducting a pilot project for BP utilizing the latest generation of its visualization technology, R2S Mosaic. The technology, which adds spatial intelligence, among other advanced new capabilities…
The UK's Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) and Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) have joined forces to fund and support the development of innovations which could reduce costs, raise production efficiency, and improve safety and environmental performance…
Shining lights in the offshore oil and gas industry were recognized in a black tie dinner in Aberdeen last night. Some 500 industry professionals attending the SPE Offshore Achievement Awards, which celebrates innovation, collaboration…
Statoil has found oil and gas in a wildcat well, close to the Gullfaks field in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea. The well was drilled from the Gullfaks C platform to a structure east of the Gimle field, about 7km northeast of the…
Statoil has received consent from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill exploration well 7121/8-1 named Blåmann in the Barents Sea, with the possibility of a sidetrack well. Blåmann is in production license 849, around 113km northwest of Hammerfest and 25km from Goliat…
Saipem and Siemens have signed a joint development for subsea control systems for Saipem’s Subsea Bus architecture based on Siemens Subsea DigiGrid. Siemens, through its subsea entity, will support Saipem in realizing the Saipem Subsea Bus architecture…