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  • Bourbon Offshore Norway Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary

    3 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    BOURBON decided to gain access to the North Sea market by taking a share in a publicly listed Norwegian offshore company. One year later, BOURBON took full control of the company and renamed it Bourbon Offshore Norway, starting an uninterrupted track record of innovations. Today, Bourbon Offshore Norway celebrates its 10-year anniversary. A success story […]

  • Vår Energi finalizes North Sea field divestment

    1 August 2019

    Vår Energi has finalized the divestment of 10 percent ownership interests in six of its operated licenses across the Balder and Ringhorne fields in the North Sea to Mime Petroleum.

  • Saipem starts laying Norway’s largest oil pipeline

    30 April 2018
    Project & Tenders

    The operations to install Norway’s largest pipeline to the Johan Sverdrup field started outside Mongstad, north of Bergen, late last week onboard the vessel Saipem Castorone.

  • Proserv Boss Wins Ernst & Young Scotland Entrepreneur of the Year 2013

    17 June 2013

    The chief executive of rapidly growing energy services company Proserv has been named Ernst & Young Scotland Entrepreneur of the Year 2013. Judges praised David Lamont for moulding “a phenomenal business of a truly global nature” in overseeing a 25% year-on-year growth during his two years at the company which operates from 30 sites across […]

  • UK North Sea: Total Launches Development of West Franklin Phase 2

    30 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    Total announces the launch of Phase 2 of the development of the West Franklin field, after receiving approval from the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). The West Franklin field is located in Blocks 29/5b and 29/4d in the UK sector of the North Sea, approximately 240 kilometres East of Aberdeen. It […]

  • IMO: Bunker Delivery Note Amendments Enter Into Force

    8 January 2019
    Rules & Regulation

    Amendments to the bunker delivery note entered into force on January 1, 2019, IMO said.

  • The Netherlands: Ecofys Starts Trials on Seaweed Cultivation and Offshore Wind Energy

    5 March 2012
    Environment, Research & Development

    Ecofys started a trial with the combination of seaweed cultivation and offshore wind energy. Thursday, 01 March, the cultivation module left the NIOZ harbour on the Dutch island of Texel for a disused sand extraction area 10 kilometres west of the island. By late June, Ecofys hopes to harvest the first supply of Dutch seaweed […]

  • Nauticus Robotics kick-starts its international expansion with new operating bases

    19 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    Nauticus Robotics has started its international expansion strategy for 2023 and beyond with the initiation of its operations in Norway and the United Kingdom.

  • ExxonMobil gearing up to spud third well in Canje block

    26 August 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    ExxonMobil is nearly set to spud a new exploration well located in the Canje block offshore Guyana, using a Stena Drilling-owned drillship.

  • COSL Drilling eyes new North Sea contract for semi-sub rig

    3 July 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    COSL Drilling Europe has signed a letter of intent for the use of COSLInnovator rig on the Norwegian Continental Shelf starting early next year.

  • The Netherlands: New Head Office Van Oord in Rotterdam

    2 November 2010

    OVG Projectontwikkeling and Van Oord today started building work on a new head office of around 14,000 m2 for Van Oord in Rotterdam. The office for dredger and marine contractor Van Oord is on the banks of the River Maas. This time Van Oord did not do any dredging, but rather CEO Pieter van Oord […]

  • UK: World’s Largest Quay Cranes on Their Way to London Gateway

    21 January 2013

    Towering at a height of 138 metres, taller than the London Eye, London Gateway’s colossal quay cranes are on their way to the UK’s new deep-water container port. The first three of the port’s giant quay cranes, manufactured by Shanghai’s Zhenhua Port Machinery Company (ZPMC), have started their journey from China. The enormous crane’s boom […]

  • St. Augustine Beach Renourishment Nears Completion

    18 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Dredging for the St. Augustine Beach renourishment project is scheduled to conclude this month, weather pending, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Jacksonville District reports.  Work has been completed from Pope Road to the St. Augustine Beach pier and sand placement from the pier to 15th to 9th Streets is currently underway. Pope Road is an equipment staging […]

  • Deutsche Bucht OWF Foundations Installation Begins

    5 September 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    The start of construction of the 269 MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm has been marked with the installation of the first out of 31 steel foundations in the German Exclusive Economic Zone, more than 100 kilometers from the German mainland.  With an investment budget of approximately EUR 1.4 billion, Deutsche Bucht is Northland Power’s third North Sea […]

  • Norway: CGGVeritas Starts Fourth Acquisition on Ekofisk Life-of-Field Seismic Program

    7 June 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    CGGVeritas announced that it will begin acquiring a fourth repeat survey (LoFS04) on the Ekofisk field in the North Sea as part of the multi-year Life-of-Field Seismic (LoFS) program for which it was awarded both the seismic data acquisition and processing. Mobilization is starting early June 2012, and the shooting period will last approximately one […]

  • Statoil to take more oil from Gullfaks South

    29 July 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has informed that production from the Gullfaks South (GSO) fast-track project for improved oil recovery in the North Sea has started on July 27, 2015.  Statoil says that GSO will increase the output from the Gullfaks area by around 65 million barrels of oil equivalent. “GSO demonstrates how we can increase recovery and profitability […]

  • Norway: BP Gets Green Light for Continued Use of Hod Gas Lift Pipeline

    18 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    BP Norge AS has received consent for continued use of the Hod 4” gas lift pipeline until 31 December 2014. Hod is located in the North Sea in block 2/11, 13 kilometres south of Valhall. The licensees are Amerada Hess Norway AS (62.5%) and BP Norge AS as operator (37.5%). The field was discovered in […]

  • Norway: NPD Starts Seismic Acquisition in Barents Sea

    8 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian Petroleum Directorate started acquisition of seismic data in Norway’s new maritime zone in the Barents Sea. PGS will be conducting the acquisition on behalf of the NPD using the vessel R.V. Harrier Explorer. This is the first time this area will be systematically mapped. The seismic acquisition activity will continue until the first half […]

  • Singapore: Hallin Marine Starts Year with Four New Contracts

    8 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, reports a promising start to the year with four new contracts. Hallin’s West Division heads into battle in search of unexploded 1939-1945 ordnance off the German coast. A Quasar work-class remotely operated vehicle and team are being provided to support site clearance for a windfarm installation. For a […]

  • VLCCs, Boxships to Benefit from Extended Suez Canal Cuts

    10 January 2018

    Suez Canal Authority decided to extend the toll benefits for VLCCs and containerships.

  • Wind turbines at sea account for 5 per cent of global wind energy capacity

    27 April 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Transition

    Global installed offshore wind capacity increased in 2020 and reached around 5 per cent of total wind capacity, according to the latest statistics from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Overall, wind energy expansion almost doubled last year with 111 GW, compared to 58 GW in 2019. Of the 111 GW, around 34.4 GW of […]

  • Energean: Croatia base gets all electricity from renewable sources

    9 April 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Energean has informed that its EDINA operative base in Pula, Croatia is supplied with electricity generated 100% from renewable sources.

  • Jersey in fundraising talks, launches Greater Buchan Area farm-out process

    12 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    North Sea-focused Jersey Oil & Gas has formally launched the farm-out process of the Greater Buchan Area in the UK North Sea and started talks to raise funds to progress work on the project.

  • CIS Wraps Up North Sea Gig

    16 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Conductor Installation Services Ltd (CIS), an Acteon company that provides hammer services to install conductors and drive piles, has completed a conductor installation operation for a North Sea oil and gas operator. According to the company, the work was carried out on a major gas project in the Southern North Sea. CIS was retained to […]

  • Top News of the Week of Apr 29 – May 05, 2013

    5 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    1. Technip Begins Cable Work on Borkum Offshore Wind Farm in Germany Technip Offshore Wind has started offshore operations on an array cable installation contract for phase 1 of the Borkum Wind Farm development, located 45 kilometers to the North of the German island of Borkum, in the North Sea. 2. Fuglesangs Continues Subsea Expansion […]