The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has launched an investigation into a lifting incident involving pipehandling on the Gullfaks B facility in the North Sea on 7 March 2017. Part of the Eagle Arm crane on this platform came loose and fell to the pipedeck…
Noble Energy cut first steel on its giant Leviathan natural gas project, offshore Israel. First steel cut for Leviathan. Image from Noble Energy LinkedIn. “We are excited to join…
Motive Offshore Group has expanded its business with a six figure investment in a quayside fabrication facility in Dundee Port. After successfully negotiating with the port to take over the site, which boasts a deepwater quay side facility…
Teekay Corp. and Teekay Offshore Partners are shaking things up on its board of directors. Current Teekay Director, William P. Utt, will replace C. Sean Day as Teekay’s chairman effective 15 June. Day is stepping down on 15 June, however…
Cairn Energy was awarded license option (LO) 16/18 in the Atlantic Ireland Licensing Round in 1H 2016, in addition to a farm-in to a 70% working interest and operatorship in the adjacent LO 16/19 with Europa Oil & Gas with plans for 3D seismic in 2017…
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Statoil consent to drill a fourth well at Snøhvit with the Songa Enabler semisubmersible vessel in the Barents Sea. The Songa Enabler. Image from Songa Offshore…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has identified regulation breaches following its investigation into a fire that broke out on Statoil’s Statfjord A platform in October 2016. Statfjord A…
Overall spending on the UK Continental Shelf is expected to fall 3% compared to last year, to £17 billion, as projects continue to struggle, while exploration remains at a record low, according to a new report. But, new capital investment…
DeepOcean received a call-off under its new master service agreement (MSA) with BP Exploration Operating Co. that covers the installation of a new flexible water injection riser, and the recovery of the existing water injection riser in the deepwater Foinaven field…
Lundin Petroleum started appraisal drilling at Gohta in the Barents Sea, and on the Edvard Grieg field in the North Sea. At Gohta, appraisal well 7120/1-5 in PL492, is being drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson semisubmersible drilling rig. The…
VNG Norge has awarded a trio of companies, Subsea 7, TechnipFMC, and Aker Solutions, front-end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the Pil & Bue project, in the Norwegian Sea. Subsea 7 and TechnipFMC won the subsea structures…
A review of UK North Sea projects between 2011-16 has found that fewer than 25% were on time and 35% were over their original estimated budget, at field development plan submission. The review, carried out by the UK regulator, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA)…
Spain's Repsol has cleared a hurdle to drill the Stordal prospect in the Norwegian Sea using Transocean's semisubmersible drilling rig Transocean Spitsbergen. The Petroleum Safety Authority has given the firm permission to drill the Stordal well 6705/7-1 in 1410m water depth…
Wintershall Norway has awarded AGR a feasibility study in the Barents Sea that will see AGR evaluate well design solutions. AGR will monitor and identify the optimum design, drilling, and testing techniques required to carry out efficient exploration activity…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Aker BP consent to drill exploration well 24/9-11S on the Volund field with the Transocean Arctic in the North Sea. Aker BP is the operator of the Volund field, around 220km west of Tananger in Rogaland county…
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