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  • TenneT Reveals Borssele Beta Topside Sail-Out Date

    20 March 2020
    Storage

    The Borssele Beta offshore substation topside will sail out from HSM Offshore’s yard in Schiedam to the installation site in the Dutch North Sea on 22 March, TenneT said. The 700MW offshore grid connection is scheduled to be operational on September 1. From then on, the 731.5MW Borssele III and IV wind farm that is […]

  • Maersk Oil’s Culzean Field Gets UK Development Approval

    31 August 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The development of the largest new field discovered in the UK North Sea for a decade has been approved by the UK Oil & Gas Authority, Maersk Oil reports. The Maersk Oil operated high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) Culzean field in the UK Central North Sea is expected to produce enough gas to meet 5% […]

  • Unite sets strike dates for North Sea platforms

    26 February 2019

    Scottish workers’ union Unite Scotland has set dates for industrial action on three UK North Sea platforms following last week’s vote by 200 members.

  • BP to develop two new North Sea projects

    10 April 2018
    Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Oil major BP has committed to two new North Sea developments which are expected to produce 30,000 barrels gross of oil equivalent a day at peak production.

  • Odfjell Drilling to idle rig prior to Total gig in South Africa

    19 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance

    Odfjell Drilling and Total have agreed to keep Odfjell’s semi-sub rig Deepsea Stavanger idle in Norway prior to mobilising it to South Africa for Total’s drilling operations.

  • UK: A&P North East Begins Moving into Oil & Gas Sector

    31 July 2012

    Based in two North East England locations, A&P North East is a company with ship repair and conversion yards on the rivers Tyne and Tees. Part of the A&P Group which also includes A&P Falmouth where ship repair and conversion services have been taking place for more than 150 years, the modern North East yards […]

  • A&P Moves into Oil and Gas Sector (UK)

    1 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Based in two North East England locations, A&P North East is a company with ship repair and conversion yards on the rivers Tyne and Tees. Part of the A&P Group which also includes A&P Falmouth where ship repair and conversion services have been taking place for more than 150 years, the modern North East yards […]

  • Germany: E.ON Lays Groundwork for Amrumbank West Offshore Wind Farm

    29 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    In April 2013 E.ON started preparations for constructing the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm. So-called scour protection is currently being installed north-west of Helgoland. This comprises two layers of special sand bags on the seabed to prevent the sea current from washing away the sand around the foundations of the wind turbines, thus ensuring turbine […]

  • Equinor takes over Wisting discovery operatorship from OMV

    2 December 2019

    Austrian OMV has agreed to transfer its operatorship of the Wisting oil discovery in the Barents Sea to Equinor for the development phase. OMV made the discovery offshore Norway in 2013.

  • Hibiscus on track to drill Anasuria well with Seadrill rig

    8 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Hibiscus Petroleum is preparing to drill a sidetrack well on the Anasuria field in the UK North Sea, following an award of a drilling contract to one of Seadrill’s semi-submersible rigs. 

  • Afren: Ebok jacket installed. Ameena spudded

    11 November 2014
    Project & Tenders

    Afren and its partner, Oriental Energy Resources Limited (Oriental), have informed that the jacket for the Ebok Central Fault Block Extension (CFBx) platform, offshore Nigeria, has now been installed. The installation of the decks and bridge will complete in early January 2015 once the wellhead jacket at Okwok has been installed following which the partners […]

  • Drilling ops on track for next week as Valaris rig sets off towards Western Gas well

    19 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Since a Valaris-owned rig has kicked off mobilisation activities, Western Gas is preparing to drill the Sasanof-1 well next week.

  • North Sea major files for CO2 storage licence as part of UK’s net-zero journey

    10 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Storage, Technology, Transition

    North Sea operator Chrysaor has submitted a licence application for the purpose of storing CO2 in a depleted reservoir in the North Sea off the UK.

  • UK: Aberdeen Harbour Awards Port Improvement Contract

    18 July 2012

    Aberdeen Harbour Board has awarded a £5.2m contract involving major improvements to the port entrance and for widening and deepening the navigation channel. Harbour Board chief executive, Colin Parker said: “As the centre of activity for the energy industry’s marine operations in North-west Europe, the importance of targeted investment and development has been a top […]

  • Statoil hires EMGS for Norwegian Sea survey

    2 June 2014

    EMGS will acquire 3D electromagnetic data in Norwegian Sea for Norway’s oil giant Statoil.

  • Norway: Total Launches Hild Field Development

    2 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Total, operator of the Hild license, launches the development of this field located in the Norwegian North Sea. This development will represent an investment of US$4.2 billion (NOK 25.6 billion) and is subject to the approval of the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and Norwegian Parliament (Storting). Total holds a 51 % interest together […]

  • Windfarm Update: Race Bank, Rampion, Walney Extension, EnBW Baltic 2, Gode Wind 1 & 2, Sandbank

    13 November 2015

    Race Bank In July, A2SEA won a contract to provide the SEA CHALLENGER offshore installation vessel for the installation of wind turbines at DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm from early 2017. Also, MMT has been contracted to carry out unexploded ordnance (UXO) inspections and removal MMT along the export cable routes and within […]

  • Iran: NIOC Plans USD 5 Billion Bonds Issue

    7 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    Rial-denominated bonds worth about $5 billion will be issued in near future to finance development of shared oil and gas fields especially South Pars gas field projects, managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Ahmad Qalebani announced. He reported of absorbing four billion dollars in South Pars gas field projects over the first […]

  • Future Proof Shipping launches 1st hydrogen-powered inland containership

    25 May 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Dutch shipping company Future Proof Shipping (FPS) has launched the first hydrogen-powered zero-emissions inland container ship, H2 Barge 1, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The official launch of H2 Barge 1 took place in Rotterdam on 25 May. Future Proof Shipping’s zero-emissions 110m x 11.45m inland containership, H2 Barge 1 is chartered by BCTN on behalf […]

  • Western Gas gearing up to drill Australian well as environment plan gets regulator’s approval

    29 December 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Western Gas has secured the regulator’s acceptance of its environment plan to manage drilling activities for the Sasanof-1 exploration well.

  • Loch Arbour Beaches to Get New Sand

    14 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6) yesterday announced the start of a federally funded beach replenishment project covering the area stretching from Philips Avenue in southern Deal to Loch Arbour. Army Corps awarded the contract for the $38 million project to Manson Construction Company. The funding for this project is entirely federal and is part of […]

  • Fargo-Moorhead Update: Water Quality Sampling Resumes

    5 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, in cooperation with the Flood Diversion Board of Authority, will continue its water quality field surveys for the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion project starting this week. The primary objective of collecting the samples is to analyze water quality within the project area during pre‐project, construction and post‐construction […]

  • Wind turbine upgrade campaign starts at Borkum Riffgrund 2

    5 May 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    The walk-to-work vessel Wind Innovation is currently deployed at the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in Germany, where a wind turbine upgrade campaign is under way. During the last week of April, the vessel mobilised for the project at DHSS support base in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, according to DHSS. The Wind Innovation arrived to […]

  • Marathon Oil Submits Brae Area Decom Plan

    21 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Marathon Oil has submitted a plan for decommissioning for the Brae Area to the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The Brae Area lies approximately 274 km north-east of Aberdeen in a water depth of approximately 110 meters. The Area consists of three fixed jacket platforms, three Marathon Oil-operated subsea tie-backs and […]

  • Scarabeo 5 Cleared for Well Intervention on Snorre

    13 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has granted Statoil consent to use the mobile drilling facility Scarabeo 5 for well intervention in well 34/7-A-10 H on the Snorre field. Spanning blocks 34/4 and 34/7 in the Tampen area of the Norwegian North Sea, about 150 kilometers west of Floro, this field has been producing oil […]