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  • SeaBird Shrinks Loss

    17 August 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Oslo-listed SeaBird has narrowed its quarterly loss for the period ended June 30, 2018 on 11 percent higher revenues and lower charges, compared to prior-year second quarter. The seismic data provider for oil and gas companies posted loss of around $3.6 million for the second quarter of 2018, compared to loss of $11.1 million in […]

  • TGS Continues to Expand MSGBC Basin Seismic Data Library

    4 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    TGS is further expanding its North-West African Atlantic Margin (NWAAM) multi-client library in the MSGBC Basin as it plans to acquire more than 11,000 kilometers of long-offset broadband 2D seismic data together with magnetic and gravity data, in Senegal and Gambia. This expansion is being undertaken in cooperation with Petrosen in Senegal and the Ministry of Petroleum […]

  • CCB Gets Statoil Subsea Equipment Maintenance Job

    29 April 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Coast Center Base (CCB) has signed a nationwide contract with Statoil for the maintenance of subsea equipment and tools. The contract, which comes into effect immediately, includes demobilization, storage maintenance and overhauling of subsea equipment that forms part of Statoil’s underwater tools portfolio. CCB also has an option for additional maintenance work in connection with […]

  • Equinor gets safety nod for extended operation of Gullfaks C

    8 March 2019

    Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has received consent from the country’s offshore safety agency to extend the life of the Gullfaks C platform and associated pipelines located offshore Norway.  The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) said on Friday that Equinor had applied for consent to extend the operating life of Gullfaks C to June 30, 2036. […]

  • Norway: 1600 workers on strike across 28 offshore units

    17 July 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore workers have extended their strike to 19 offshore units after the strike started last week on nine offshore rigs and platforms over pay disagreement.

  • Spirit Energy picks up drilling permit for North Sea wildcat

    24 January 2018
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Spirit Energy Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well offshore Norway. 

  • Sterling Resources enters two-year gas sales deal with British Gas

    9 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Canadian-listed oil and gas company Sterling Resources has entered into a gas sales agreement with British Gas Trading Limited (BGT), a subsidiary of Centrica plc. Sterling said on Friday that the agreement provides for its share of Breagh field nominated gas volumes to be sold on a day-ahead basis to the UK reference price at […]

  • Det norske detects hydrocarbon leak on Alvheim FPSO, stops production

    28 July 2016
    Infrastructure

    On Thursday morning, Det norske oljeselskap was informed about a hydrocarbon leak in the pump room aboard the Alvheim floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, located in the North Sea offshore Norway.  Det norske oljeselskap is the operator of the Alvheim field with 65% working interest. Partners in the license are ConocoPhillips with a 20%, and […]

  • Searcher Seismic wraps up Echidna survey off Ireland

    21 July 2015
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Searcher Seismic, in cooperation with MAGE, has announced the acquisition of the Echidna Regional Broadband 2D seismic survey covering the Porcupine & Slyne Basins and the Goban Spur offshore Ireland, is now complete. Searcher Seismic started the survey in March 2015. According to the company, comprised of approximately 9,100 km of long-offset broadband 2D seismic data, […]

  • Wintershall Receives Permission to Drill New Well in PL 418

    1 February 2013

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norway AS a drilling permit for well 35/9-8 in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. Well 35/9-8 will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling facility at position 67°17’6.71’’N and 3°40’33.63’’E following completion of drilling of wildcat well 6407/1-6 S for Wintershall in production licence 475. […]

  • Spectrum Starts 2nd Phase of Seismic Shoot in Brazil

    23 November 2012

    Spectrum has started the next phase of its 2D campaign in Brazil to acquire an additional 6,000 km over the Foz do Amazonas basin. The program immediately follows on from the phase 1 survey of 15,000 km, which was completed successfully and ahead of time. The phase 2 survey will be completed in the fourth […]

  • Statoil Gets Green Light to Use Ocean Vanguard Rig on Johan Sverdrup (Norway)

    10 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) has been granted consent to use the Ocean Vanguard mobile drilling rig for drilling on the Johan Sverdrup discovery in the North Sea. The consent covers drilling of two wells: 16/2-12 and 16/2-14 Well 16/2-12 is an exploration well which has been given the prospect name “Geitungen”. Water depth at the […]

  • Apply Sørco Wins Gullfaks Topsides Modifications Contract (Norway)

    6 July 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Apply Sørco has been awarded a contract by Statoil for topside modifications related to subsea compression on Gullfaks field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The project will increase the wellhead pressure and production from the field. The contract includes installation of new equipment and technical solutions on the platform to operate the […]

  • Salamander Energy Abandons Dry Well Offshore Thailand

    3 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Salamander Energy plc provides an operational update on testing operations at the Far East prospect in its operated B8/38 licence, Gulf of Thailand.  Further to the announcement on 26th June 2012, a barefoot DST was conducted over a zone of potential oil pay in the Ratburi carbonates. The test results are conclusive, analysis of produced […]

  • UK: Wood Group Kenny Lands EFA from Shell for SURF, FEED Services Worldwide

    15 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Wood Group Kenny has been awarded an Enterprise Frame Agreement (“EFA”) by Shell Global Solutions International BV (“Shell”) to provide subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) engineering and construction management services to Shell worldwide, with primary focus on the Asia Pacific region, along with other project-specific awards in Europe. The EFA was awarded for a […]

  • E.ON Ruhrgas Wins Licence to Drill in Norwegian Sea

    25 May 2011
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted E.ON Ruhrgas Norge AS a drilling permit for wellbore 31/8-1, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 31/8-1 will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling facility at position 60°22’11.23” N and 3°34’04.94”E after it has completed drilling development well 6507/5-A-1 H on the Skarv field in […]

  • Statoil Hosts Vega Field Opening Ceremony in Bergen, Norway

    18 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    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 […]

  • SNCM Sinking Further in Debts

    5 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Debt-laden ferry operator Societé Nationale Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM) is sailing in turbulent waters and will probably have to resort to court protection from creditors as the latest court ruling from Thursday orders the operator to pay USD 289 million of French state aid, reports Reuters. The struggling company has accrued losses of around USD 323 million over the past decade despite […]

  • Sovcomflot tanker starts first-ever fully LNG-fuelled Northern Sea Route pass

    29 August 2019
    Vessels

    Sovcomflot’s LNG-fuelled Aframax crude oil tanker has started a transit through the Northern Sea Route.

  • BP steps forward with Atoll gas discovery development

    20 June 2016

    UK-based energy giant BP has sanctioned the development of the Atoll Phase One project, an early production scheme to bring up to 300 million cubic feet a day gross of gas to the Egyptian market starting in the first half of 2018.

  • German Lower Saxony Funds Research Project on Lobster Settlement at Offshore Wind Farms

    19 April 2013
    Environment, Research & Development

    With just under EUR 700,000, Lower Saxony is supporting a pilot project for the settlement of the European lobsters at the offshore wind farm “Riffgat”. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have started to rear 3,000 lobsters, which they will release back into the water in 2014. They […]

  • Race Bank to Get First Blades Produced in Hull

    30 November 2016

    With the official opening of Siemens blade factory in Hull set to take place today, DONG Energy informed that the first blades manufactured at the factory will be used at its Race Bank offshore wind farm. Brent Cheshire, DONG Energy’s UK Country Chairman, said: “DONG Energy is absolutely committed to investing in the UK so […]

  • Equinor Gets Nod for Snorre Life Extension

    10 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Equinor has received consent to continue use of the Snorre A and Snorre B facilities through 2040. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said it believes there is a basis for continuing operations on Snorre A and B to produce remaining resources in the field. Equinor had consent to use Snorre A until 1 May 2022 and […]

  • Prosafe-Westcon dispute over cost overruns lingers on

    6 April 2017

    Prosafe, an operator of semi-sub accommodation rigs known as flotels, is still in dispute with Westcon over cost overruns related to Safe Scandinavia’s conversion from flotel to tender support vessel (TSV). In its 2016 annual report on Thursday, Prosafe said that the litigation process relating to the final costs of the conversion of the Safe Scandinavia […]

  • New deal doubles UK inspection specialist’s North Sea workload

    27 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Inspection Verification Bureau (IVB) has secured a verification deal with Wintershall Noordzee, doubling its work in the Southern North Sea.