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  • Equinor gets the all-clear for North Sea drilling ops

    28 March 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Equinor has received consent from Norway’s offshore safety regulator for exploration drilling in the North Sea off Norway, using one of Odfjell Drilling’s rigs.

  • Spirit gets life extension for North Sea field

    14 May 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Rules & Regulation

    Spirit Energy has received approval from Norwegian authorities for a life extension of its Vale gas field located offshore Norway.

  • Siemens to Provide Full Package for EnBW Hohe See OWF

    17 February 2017
    Equipment

    Siemens Wind Power has secured a contract to provide complete offshore wind power plant solutions including foundations for the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm. Starting in early 2018, the Hohe See wind farm will be installed at a site 90 kilometers north of the German island Borkum in the North Sea at water depths of up to […]

  • PGS, TGS start Jean d’Arc 3D survey offshore Canada

    20 June 2019

    Norwegian seismic firms PGS and TGS have announced the Jeanne d’Arc High-Density 3D (“HD3D”) MultiClient project in Offshore Newfoundland, East Canada.

  • Equinor closes Carcara deal in Brazil

    19 June 2019

    Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor and its partners have fully aligned interests in the Carcará oil discovery, which is located offshore Brazil.

  • Infinity picks up ‘substantial’ engineering contract from Apache

    14 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    Infinity has been awarded a ‘substantial’ contract from oil and gas company Apache for work on the Seagull development.

  • Gina Krog FSO gets clean bill of health

    25 May 2017

    Along with Statoil receiving consent to start production from the Gina Krog field in the North Sea, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) issued a “clean bill of health” for the Gina Krog FSO. The Norwegian safety body carried out an audit of the design and fabrication of the Gina Krog floating storage and offloading vessel and found […]

  • Lundin spuds Edvard Grieg and Gohta appraisal wells

    6 March 2017
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Lundin Norway has started appraisal drilling on the Edvard Grieg field and the Gohta discovery, offshore Norway.  The oil company informed on Monday that the appraisal well 16/1-27 in PL338 on the Edvard Grieg field in the North Sea is being drilled on the southwestern flank of the field by the semi-submersible drilling rig Island […]

  • Tyra decommissioning plans start next year, Maersk says

    30 December 2016
    Project & Tenders

    In January 2017, Maersk Oil will start making plans for the decommissioning of the Tyra field, in the Danish North Sea, after failing to find a viable solution for full recovery of the remaining resources.  Maersk Oil on Friday, December 30 issued a notification to the Danish gas market announcing that an economically viable solution for […]

  • Statoil: Fram C East starts production

    24 August 2016

    Norwegian oil company Statoil has said that production has started from the Fram C East field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea through the Troll C production platform. The Fram C East is a long production well drilled from the existing Fram subsea template. Production is tied back to Troll C. Gas from […]

  • Circle Oil: New CEO steps in

    29 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Circle Oil Plc, the international oil and gas exploration, development and production company, has announced the appointment of Mitchell Robert Flegg as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a director of the company with effect from June 1, 2015. Circle Oil previous Director and CEO, Professor Chris Green, resigned in March 2015. According to the company, Flegg […]

  • Plexus wins equipment delivery for Centrica (UK)

    21 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Plexus Holdings PLC, has received an additional purchase order from Centrica Energy Exploration and Production to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for an exploration well in the Southern North Sea, Offshore UK. The value of the order is estimated at approximately $1 million (£600,000) with revenues expected to start shortly. Under the terms of […]

  • Jumbo Offshore to install protection structures

    28 April 2011

    Jumbo’s DP2 Offshore Heavy Lift Vessel Fairplayer will install 4 subsea protection structures for production flowlines at 600 m water depth in the Laggan & Tormore fields. These gas condensate fields, owned by Total and Dong Energy, are located 125 km north-west of the Shetland Islands. This region contains approx. 17% of the remaining UK […]

  • Vietnam: Cai Mep Terminal Welcomes Maersk Line’s Transpacific String

    16 August 2011
    Business & Finance

      At 115,700 DWT and with a capacity of 9038 TEU, Grete Maersk was the first Maersk Line vessel to call the newly opened Cai Mep International Terminal (CMIT) on its route from Asia to North America. With this first direct “Transpacific 6” (TP6) vessel calling CMIT on August 16th 2011, Maersk Line officially became […]

  • GDF Suez Starts Gas Production from Juliet Filed

    7 January 2014

    GDF Suez announced first gas production from the Juliet field, a subsea development on the western flank of the Southern Gas Basin, 39 km East of the Lincolnshire coastline in the United Kingdom. Initial gas has been produced from the West Well, the first of two wells to be drilled. The second well (Juliet East) […]

  • Fluxys G Buys 19 Percent Stake in NEL Pipeline from WINGAS (Germany)

    1 September 2011

    Fluxys G has acquired from WINGAS a 19% stake in the Nord Stream connecting pipeline. The NEL link is one of the two pipelines planned in Germany for accommodating downstream flows from the Nord Stream pipeline which is going to bring additional volumes of Russian natural gas through the Baltic Sea to Europe. Following the […]

  • Hyundai Heavy gets LR approval for LNG-fuelled VLOC

    27 March 2018
    Vessels

    South Korean shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries has received approval in principle from UK-based classification society Lloyd’s Register for an LNG-fuelled 250,000 dwt class very large ore carrier. To remind, Anangel, Woodside, Lloyd’s Register and Hyundai Heavy started a joint development project last year to develop an LNG-fuelled VLOC design optimised for the trade route from North West […]

  • Opus Marine Orders Damen FCS 2610

    11 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    Hamburg-based Opus Marine has signed an order for a Twin Axe hull Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) from Damen Shipyards Group. The FCS 2610, being constructed at Damen Shipyards Singapore, will be the first Damen vessel in Opus Marine’s fleet. Following delivery, the FCS 2610, which Opus Marine is going to name Verdi, will provide crew […]

  • The Netherlands Boosts Offshore Wind with New Law

    24 June 2015
    Authorities & Government

    The Dutch Senate has adopted a new law on offshore wind energy, thus making a crucial step in the transition to a more sustainable energy mix. Offshore wind energy is one of the main pillars of the Dutch Energy Agreement (Energieakkoord). The European target of 14% of renewable energy by 2020 requires some catching up, […]

  • Germany’s First North Sea Commercial OWF Celebrates Fifth Birthday

    27 August 2018

    BARD Offshore 1, the first commercial offshore wind farm in Germany, marked five years of service on 26 August.

  • Deutsche Bucht Offshore Substation Stands

    4 April 2019
    Storage

    Heavy lift vessel Seaway Strashnov has installed the jacket foundation and the substation topside on the 269MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. “With the installation of the offshore substation completed, we have once more accomplished another milestone on schedule,” said Jens Poulsen, Project Director at Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH. “In […]

  • Statoil finds gas near Ekofisk field in North Sea

    23 July 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil, operator of production licence 146, has found gas/condensate in the Julius prospect near the Ekofisk field in the North Sea, and is now in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 2/4-23 S. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has said that the well was drilled about 17 […]

  • UK: Siemens, H&W Deploy Gwynt y Mor Substation

    13 August 2012

    Today, the latest milestone for the flagship offshore wind farm, Gwynt y Môr, will be achieved with the departure by sea of the UK engineered and built Siemens’ offshore substation. Destined for installation in Liverpool Bay, the 1,500 tonne platform was jointly designed, engineered and fabricated by Siemens in Manchester and Belfast-based shipbuilders Harland and […]

  • EMGS Secures Major 3D EM Contract

    18 October 2013

    The EMGS West Africa Letter of Intent which was referred to in the stock exchange release of 13 September 2013 has resulted in a signed contract. Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has exchanged a contract worth USD 8 million with Maersk Oil Angola. It is expected that the 3D electromagnetic data acquisition will start for the […]

  • Portugal: Peniche Plans to Harness Wave Power

    12 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Portuguese town Peniche will soon start generating power from the waves on the power plant called WaveRoller. Estaleiros Navais de Peniche has been testing an innovative wave energy structure which weighs 280 tons and is 44 meters long. The prospect of the project is to utilize currents to trigger the seven-meter wings of the unit […]