A two-week mission involving 10 marine robots has commenced off northwest Scotland. The third in a series of demonstrator missions, this latest phase sees the largest fleet of marine robotic vehicles simultaneously deployed in UK waters…
Union members have voted to end a strike in the North Sea, after Wood Group allowed members to reduce cuts to wages. Image from iStock. Members of Scotland’s biggest offshore union…
Danish giant AP Møller-Mærsk is dividing its company into two, after reviewing strategic and structural options for months that will also see its CEO, Jakob Thomasen, make his exit. Image from Maersk Flickr…
Petrofac Training Services has been awarded a contract for training and emergency response services with Statoil to support its UKCS operations. In the new five-year training partnership, Petrofac Training Services is appointed as Statoil’s…
Aasta Hansteen is the world's largest Spar-platform, and will be the first in Norway. The substructure is 200m-long, 50m in diameter and will weigh about 45,000-tonne. This summer the final mega block weighing 4500-tonne was installed and the substructure reached its full shape…
Norwegian geoscience firm Spectrum has started a 1800sq km multi client 3D seismic survey offshore Norway in the Western Barents Sea. The new survey, designed based on interest from industry will tie and complement Spectrum's existing 3D surveys in the area…
More than 300 oil service employees in Norway have gone on strike this morning after mediation talks yesterday were said to have failed. Industry Energy, a union which represents workers, claimed the Norwegian Oil & Gas association did…
Interest in new licenses in existing exploration plays offshore Norway has dropped by about a quarter. Some 33 companies have applied for licenses in Norway's 2016 awards in pre-defined areas licensing round, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said this morning…
Siemens is set to build a wind project offshore Denmark with innovative foundations and cable systems, the company said today (20 September). Four wind turbines and related equipment take a large step into the future of offshore wind…
Strainstall has been awarded a contract to provide mooring monitoring for the Hywind pilot park – the world’s first floating offshore wind farm. The contract with MacGregor will provide an integrated offshore mooring solution for the floating turbines…
Statoil, Centrica and ExxonMobil, and Tord Lien, the minister of petroleum and energy, celebrated the 5 billion boe mark that has been delivered by Statfjord since first oil in 1979 today (19 September). Arne Sigve Nylund (left)…
Statoil announced the opening of its new operations center for the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) that will see its workforce grow by 40; in addition its plans to drill three wells in the area. Scotland’s…
In less than a week, the topside for Statoil's Gina Krog project was installed on the field in the North Sea. Five thoroughly heavy lift operations were performed by the Saipem 7000, and all went according to plan. The development…
French operator ENGIE E&P has made a 25-70 MMboe discovery in the Cara well in the Norwegian North Sea. The well was drilled using the Transocean Arctic semisubmersible, in 349m water depth. It is 6km northeast of the ENGIE-operated Gjøa field (pictured)…
Gazprom received the first construction permit for the TurkStream pipeline's offshore section from the authorities of the Turkish Republic as part of the preparatory procedures for resuming the TurkStream project. The permit was received through diplomatic channels…
