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  • ION in New 3D Reimaging Program Offshore Denmark

    31 July 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

     ION Geophysical Corporation has started a new 3D multi-client reimaging program offshore Denmark.  The initial 2,200 sq km phase of the 10,250 sq km program is aligned with the Danish Energy Agency’s objective to boost exploration activity by providing a modern, affordable 3D depth-imaged data set. The program is ideally suited for upcoming biannual license […]

  • McDermott Relocates Headquarters into New Building

    19 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    McDermott International has signed a lease for the new office building to serve as its corporate headquarters and will consolidate approximately 1,700 employees across five locations in the Houston area into one location. McDermott signed a 16-year lease for Energy Center Five, an 18-story, 524,000-square-foot office tower located at 915 North Eldridge Parkway. McDermott will […]

  • Oceanteam Nets McDermott Gig for CSV Southern Ocean

    27 September 2018

    Oceanteam has secured a contract from McDermott for the utilization of its construction support vessel Southern Ocean on a subsea installation project off the East Coast of India. Mobilization of the CSV Southern Ocean will start at the end of the year and the works are expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2019. Mathieu Feisthauer, […]

  • Siem Ruby Clears Path for Caithness-Moray Subsea Link

    14 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Caithness-Moray transmission project has kicked off its 2017 offshore campaign with clearance of rocks and boulders along the proposed subsea cable route. The route for the cable was cleared by the Siem Ruby vessel utilising a subsea boulder clearance plough to clear the route of boulders along the seabed. The same vessel will subsequently be used to […]

  • D3 Consulting’s Solution for North Sea Decom Projects

    16 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    D3 Consulting, specialist decommissioning and demolition consultants, has been awarded a six-figure contract with a undisclosed operator. The eight-month contract started in April 2016 and involves the preparation of materials inventories for 21 platforms in the Southern North Sea, with eight associated subsea installations and pipelines. The work scope includes the quantification of assets with subsequent […]

  • Premier Pushes First Oil from Solan to January

    23 December 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Premier Oil informed that it will have to put off the start‑up of first oil at its Solan field, located in the UK sector of the North Sea, due to unfavorable weather conditions during preparations. Since its last update, the company has made progress on the commissioning of the offshore installation systems required for first oil on the Solan […]

  • Fairmount Glacier Towed Pipelay Vessel Castoro Sei to Rotterdam

    18 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Tug Fairmount Glacier has towed pipelay vessel Castoro Sei to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from where the vessel will start her seasonal activities on the North Sea. The Fairmount Glacier hooked-up with Castoro Sei in Genoa, Italy. The Castoro Sei is a 28,000 ton DWT 152 meters long semi-submersible pipelay vessel operated by Italian Saipem. For […]

  • Bayerngas UK Purchases Shares of Babbage Gas Field

    9 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Bayerngas UK Ltd announced it has agreed to purchase from Centrica Resources Ltd their 13% interest in UKCS License P456 containing the Babbage Gas Field. The Field is located in UKCS Block 42/2a in the Southern North Sea and came on-stream in 2010. Current production is from three wells. A second phase of drilling is […]

  • UK: Scana to Deliver Mooring Winches for Dana’s Western Isles FPSO

    13 March 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Scana Industrier ASA has through its subsidiary Scana Offshore Vestby, entered into an agreement with UK-based Dana Petroleum for delivery of mooring winches for their new floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) which will be used in the company’s Western Isles Development Project. The total value of the contract is 57 MNOK. The contract […]

  • E.ON Ruhrgas UK Signs Contract with AGR to Use its RMR® Technology in North Sea

    16 May 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Following  a NOK18m (£2m) deal, AGR Drilling Services has an important new client for its Riserless Mud Recovery system (RMR®). Oil and gas company E.ON Ruhrgas UK E&P Ltd has signed a contract with AGR to use its innovative RMR® technology in the North Sea. The contract, which lasts until the end of March 2013, […]

  • Statoil Officially Opens Vega Field (Norway)

    18 March 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Vega field in the North Sea was officially opened during a ceremony in Bergen yesterday, 17 March. The subsea field adds important natural gas and condensate to Statoil´s production on the Norwegian continental shelf. Regardless of a challenging development, the partners on the Vega field have completed the development project on time and within […]

  • Faroe secures drilling permit for Brasse East appraisal

    31 October 2018
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Faroe Petroleum a drilling permit for well 31/7-3 S located offshore Norway. 

  • Eni hunting for rig to drill North Sea prospect

    29 January 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Italian oil company Eni is searching for a drilling rig to drill an exploration well on its Rowallan prospect in the Central North Sea. 

  • Lundin gets drilling permit for appraisal well in North Sea

    5 January 2018
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin a drilling permit for a well located offshore Norway. 

  • Nexen hires Maersk Drilling rig for Buzzard campaign

    2 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    The drilling campaign is for the Buzzard Phase II Development Project and is planned to start around July 2018.

  • COSL Drilling is looking for 250 offshore rig workers

    28 August 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling contractor COSL Drilling Europe needs about 250 rig workers to staff two of its semi-submersible drilling rigs ahead of new contracts.  Back in July, the driller was awarded two new contracts for its drilling rigs. The first one was awarded by Nexen Petroleum for the COSLPioneer drilling rig for work in the UK sector […]

  • ‘Songa Endurance’ starts drilling for Statoil

    31 December 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Songa Endurance semi-submersible drilling rig has started drilling operations under its contract with Statoil in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The rig’s owner Songa Offshore broke the news on Thursday, saying that the rig “is now on operating rate”. The Songa Endurance is on an eight-year drilling contract with Statoil at the Troll oil and […]

  • Life extension for Shell’s Draugen (Norway)

    20 May 2015
    Exploration & Production

    A/S Norske Shell has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to extend the lifetime of the Draugen platform, in the Norwegian Sea.  Draugen is an oil field in the Norwegian Sea, around 150 km north of Kristiansund. A/S Norske Shell (Shell) is the field’s operator. Production on the field began in October 1993. When […]

  • Lundin Spins Drill Bit at Johan Sverdrup Appraisal Well

    3 January 2014

    Lundin Petroleum  has announced that drilling of the appraisal well 16/3-8S on the Johan Sverdrup discovery located in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), has started. The well is located on PL501 at the crest of the Avaldsnes High in the eastern part of the discovery with the objectives to establish […]

  • IKM Wins Kepodang Gas Field Job from McDermott (Indonesia)

    30 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    PT IKM Indonesia has been awarded a contract by PT McDermott Indonesia for the Kepodang Gas Field Project. McDermott won the contract from PC Muriah, which is an affiliate of PETRONAS Carigali. Under this contract, McDermott will procure, build, install and commission a 5,802t central processing platform and a 1,298t wellhead platform. The Muriah PSC […]

  • Bayerngas UK Buys Centrica’s Stake in License P456

    9 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Bayerngas UK Ltd today announced it has agreed to purchase from Centrica Resources Ltd their 13% interest in UKCS License P456 containing the Babbage Gas Field. The Field is located in UKCS Block 42/2a in the Southern North Sea and came on-stream in 2010. Current production is from three wells. A second phase of drilling […]

  • Scarabeo 5 to Drill on Statoil’s Visund Sør Production Well (Norway)

    27 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has been granted consent to use the Scarabeo 5 mobile drilling rig for drilling and completion of a production well on Visund Sør. Visund Sør is an oil and gas field located between the Gullfaks C and Visund facilities, approx. 125 km west-northwest of Bulandet in Sogn og Fjordane County. The field will be […]

  • Lundin Gets Drilling Permit for North Sea Well (Norway)

    20 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/2-13, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/2-13 will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling facility at position 58°49’59.50’’N 02°39’12.25’’E for Lundin Norway AS in production licence 501. The drilling programme for well 16/2-13 concerns the drilling […]

  • Statoil Gets Green Light for Drilling in Norwegian North Sea

    5 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of wells 16/2-8 and 16/2-9S in the North Sea with the Transocean Leader mobile facility. The wells will be drilled in production licence 265, with Statoil as the operator (40%). The other licensees are Petoro AS (30%), Det norske oljeselskap ASA (20%) and Lundin Norway AS […]

  • Carnival Cruise Line Unveils Name of Its Newest and Largest Ship

    6 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Carnival Cruise Line has announced the name of its new XL-class ship to be delivered in 2020.