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  • Solstad Starts Negotiations with Lenders Over Liquidity Concerns

    22 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian owner and operator of offshore vessels Solstad Offshore has started negotiations with lenders to improve the overall liquidity situation prior to the North Sea winter season. According to the company, the winter season is expected to be challenging for the company’s liquidity position. Solstad Farstad has therefore decided to begin negotiations with lenders and other stakeholders […]

  • Subsea 7 Wins Askeladd Pipelaying Job

    22 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Statoil for pipelaying in the Askeladd field development. “The Askeladd project is being developed in a period of several key milestones for Statoil in North Norway. The Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea will come on stream at the end of the year. The Johan Castberg development […]

  • BW Catcher FPSO Arrives to North Sea; Commissioning Underway

    23 October 2017
    Project & Tenders

    BW Offshore informed that the BW Catcher floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel has arrived at the Catcher field in the central North Sea on Wednesday. The hook up of the submerged turret production (STP) buoy mooring system was completed on Thursday with the vessel completing a rotation test around the buoy on Friday, October 20. […]

  • Pioneering Spirit Stinger Completed

    8 April 2016
    Equipment

    A 150-meter steel structure that weighs about 4,200 tonnes was recently loaded out at Vlissingen yard. The structure is a stinger, a frame that will hang behind the “world’s largest” vessel the Pioneering Spirit. The stinger is used to lead the pipe to the bottom of the sea during the installation phase. Smulders was responsible for the […]

  • Polarcus in 4D Shoot Offshore Norway

    12 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Polarcus has received a Letter of Intent (LoI) for a 4D project over a field offshore Norway. This will be the 8th monitor survey over the field and is part of an improved oil recovery (IOR) plan, Polarcus said. The survey is due to start in May 2016 and will run for approximately eight weeks. Commenting on the award […]

  • SeaBird gets MOA for 2D seismic survey

    12 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    SeaBird Exploration has received a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) from an undisclosed client to acquire up to 45,000 km of 2D seismic data in North/ South America region. According to the company’s press release, the MOA provides for the company to charter one seismic vessel from SeaBird over a period of approximately 12 months, and […]

  • Magseis to shoot seismic in North Sea

    29 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Magseis has been awarded a contract by Hess Denmark ApS for seabed seismic acquisition in the southern part of the North Sea.

  • Statoil to plug Gullfaks Sør well with Deepsea Atlantic

    25 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has received consent from Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use Deepsea Atlantic semi-submersible drilling rig for permanent plugging of well 34/10-52A/B at Gullfaks Sør. Gullfaks Sør lies in blocks 34/10 and 33/12 in the northern part of the North Sea. The field has been developed using a total of 12 subsea templates tied back to […]

  • Lundin to Use Bredford Dolphin for Johan Sverdrup Works

    28 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Lundin Norway AS has received consent to use the Bredford Dolphin semi-submersible rig for drilling and production testing of the Johan Sverdrup discovery in the North Sea. The consent applies to drilling and production testing of well 16/5-4, which belongs to production licence 501. Planned start-up is September with a duration of approximately 46 days. […]

  • Lundin Norway to Conduct Exploration Drilling with Transocean Arctic

    23 July 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Lundin Norway AS has received consent to conduct exploration drilling with the Transocean Arctic mobile drilling facility. The consent relates to drilling and production testing of appraisal well 7120/6-3 which is part of production licence 490. A possible sidetrack (7120/6-3 A) may also be drilled. Water depth at the site is 327 metres. The operation […]

  • KHI, MES launch LNG ship repair business

    14 April 2015
    Vessels

    Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) and Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding (MES) said they have started their LNG ship repair business. The two shipbuilding giants signed a joint venture deal in December last year. They aim to benefit from the importation of North American shale gas into Japan which they think will boost the demand for […]

  • ESVAGT’s Vessels Towing Gode Wind’s Accommodation Module and Jacket

    17 June 2015

    Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has hired the Esvagt Connector and Esvagt Don to tow a floating barge that carries both an accommodation module and jacket from the port of Vlissingen in the Netherlands to the Gode Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind farm site in the German sector of the North Sea. Work started on the 10th of June […]

  • 30 Jackets to Go on Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm

    15 May 2018

    Seaway Heavy Lifting has installed 56 out of the 86 jacket foundations on the Beatrice Offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL), said.

  • Vattenfall Looks For DanTysk Turbine Maintenance Squad

    28 May 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Vattenfall has issued a tender seeking wind turbine maintenance services on the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The service agreement covers the scheduled maintenance of 54 wind turbines in 2020 and 80 units in 2021. The contract is expected to start in June 2020 and end in June 2021. The […]

  • Northwester 2 Foundations All In Place

    18 November 2019

    Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent has completed the installation of all monopile foundations at the Northwester 2 offshore wind project, a spokesperson from Parkwind told Offshore WIND. According to Parkwind, Vole au vent completed the installation of all 23 monopiles on 13 November and is currently preparing for the installation of turbines. […]

  • Borssele 1+2 Offshore Construction Humming Along

    17 March 2020

    30 monopile foundations and 14 inter-array cables have so far been installed on the 752MW Borssele 1 + 2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, Ørsted. Located some 23 kilometres off the coast of Zeeland, Borssele 1 + 2 will comprise 94 Siemens Gamesa 8MW wind turbines scheduled to be operational by the […]

  • The Netherlands: Fugro Expects 8.8 pct HY1 Net Profit Growth

    21 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    The year 2012 started with improved performance compared to the same period in 2011. The oil price remained on average around USD 120 per barrel (Brent). The sustained high levels of exploration and production spending by the oil and gas industry result in continued improvement of Fugro’s related activities. Geoscience Fugro has built good backlog […]

  • First steel cut for two large new oil & gas projects in North Sea

    5 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Aker BP has celebrated the start of the fabrication phase for two oil and gas projects, which are located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

  • Sailing Olympics – Day 13 – Gold Stars

    22 August 2008

    Winning a gold medal in the Star class was an emotional moment for three people in particular, two of them were in the boat. The third was ashore and lost for words as he watched his closest friend cross the line to take a very important gold medal. Ben Ainslie knows what it feels like […]

  • BP rig forced to make U-turn after Greenpeace ship blocked its way

    17 June 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Early on Sunday afternoon a Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, got ahead of the BP-chartered drilling rig Paul B. Loyd, Jr. 83 miles off Scotland and near the drill site of a new well in the North Sea as part of a protest that has been going on for over a week now.

  • Eni starts production from Mpungi field (Angola)

    11 January 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Italian oil company Eni has started production from the Mpungi field in the West Hub Development Project, within Block 15/06 of the Angolan Deep Offshore, approximately 350 kilometres northwest of Luanda and 130 kilometres west of Soyo. The start-up of Mpungi field, which follows the West Hub’s first oil from the Sangos field in November […]

  • More OBN work on Magseis Fairfield’s to-do list

    21 January 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian survey services provider Magseis Fairfield is strengthening its backlog for 2022 with the new contract extension as well as confirmation of the recent conditional award.

  • Aker Solutions scoops up Tommeliten Alpha contracts

    2 October 2020
    Equipment, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Aker Solutions has won two contracts from ConocoPhillips for the Tommeliten Alpha development offshore Norway. The NOK 1.2 billion ($129.3 million) deal will see the company deliver the subsea production system. The scope of work includes 10 vertical subsea trees, two manifolds, wellheads, satellite structures, control systems as well as tie-in equipment. Kjetel Digre, chief […]

  • Sea Defense Repairs Completed at Southsea

    25 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Work to repair the damaged sea defenses at Southsea seafront has now been completed and the promenade has re-opened in time for the Easter weekend. ​Portsmouth City Council, the Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership, Colas and Mackley have worked hard since the sea wall failed on Boxing Day, to stabilize and then repair the sea defenses. […]

  • Engie brings Gjoa back in production after gas leak

    7 July 2017

    Engie E&P’s Gjøa platform in the North Sea is back in production after the gas leak in June. The Gjøa gas field is situated 60 kilometers west of Florø, on the west coast of Norway. Following the gas leak on June 21, 2017, Engie as the operator of the unit shut down the production. The […]