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Talisman awards Wood Group contract

Feb 25, 2014

Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has been awarded its first major contract in the UK in 2014. The five year contract from Talisman Sinopec Energy UK is valued at US$500 million and includes an option for two additional, two year extensions. Under the scope…

Senergy joins Plexus JIP

Feb 25, 2014

Lloyds Register Group subsidiary Senergy has joined oil and gas engineering services firm Plexus Holdings' on-going joint industry project (JIP) to develop and commercialize a new and safer subsea wellhead, using Plexus' patented POS-GRIP technology…

ALS acquires BMP

Feb 24, 2014

ALS Oil & Gas, the new international oilfield services company, formed through the acquisition of Reservoir Group by ALS Ltd. in 2013, has acquired the North American completions services provider, BMP Enterprises LLC (BMP). The acquisition…

Exploration key to North Sea

Feb 24, 2014

How to increase exploration drilling rates on the UK Continental Shelf forms the largest section in today’s Wood Review report (see http://www.oedigital.com/component/k2/item/5082-all-eyes-on-north-sea-oil for more).  Better seismic, data sharing…

All eyes on North Sea oil

Feb 24, 2014

The UK’s North Sea oil and gas industry was put under a national spotlight today, both by the industry and the nation’s politicians. The industry and government welcomed the outcome of industry veteran Sir Ian Wood’s UKCS Maximizing Recovery Review final report…

OAA date nears

Feb 21, 2014

Organizers of the Offshore Achievement Awards (OAA) are expecting another record-breaking year for attendance at next month’s ceremony, following the introduction of two new categories and an increased number of entries. The awards, organized…

Helicopter review recommendations

Feb 21, 2014

Industry body Oil & Gas UK has welcomed a review of offshore transportation in North Sea, including measures to increase safety. The review, carried out by the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), was commissioned in the wake of a string…

Low mobility in Langlitinden

Feb 21, 2014

Det Norske Oljeselskap's well 7222/11-2 on the Langlitinden prospect in production license 659 in the Barents Sea is being completed. Partner Lundin Petroleum said logs and samples have been acquired. Oil with very low mobility was sampled in Middle Triassic sandstones…

Statoil drills dry North Sea well

Feb 21, 2014

Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production license 628, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 25/9-4. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said the well was dry.  The well was drilled about 25km from the Jotun field in the central part of the North Sea…

Total taps Trell oil off Norway

Feb 21, 2014

The TOTAL E&P Norge operated exploration well 25/5-9 on the Trell prospect in production license 102 F/G in the Norwegian North Sea has discovered oil in the Paleocene Heimdal Formation. The well intersected 19m of net pay in excellent quality Heimdal reservoir…

IHC launches new pipelay vessel

Feb 20, 2014

IHC Merwede launched the new pipelaying vessel Sapura Topázipo (pictured) at its shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, the Netherlands. The naming of the fully integrated IHC Merwede vessel was carried out by Puan Sri Datin Seri Yazreen Yahya…

Atlantis lists on AIM

Feb 20, 2014

Turbine supplier and tidal energy project developer Atlantis Resources has started trading on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), operated by the London Stock Exchange.    The placing gave the firm a £72.1 million market capitalization…

Barents gas disappoints Statoil

Feb 20, 2014

Statoil has made a small gas discovery in the Kramsnø prospect in production license 532, near to the Johan Castberg oil field, in the Barents Sea. The discovery is the fourth well in a five-well drilling campaign targeting oil in PL532…

Surface unmanned vehicle launched

Feb 18, 2014

Portsmouth, UK, based Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) has launched an oilfield services unmanned surface vehicle, the C-Worker (pictured). The 20ft-long multi-use offshore unmanned surface vehicle was developed to conduct subsea positioning…

Petrofac lands North Sea extensions

Feb 18, 2014

Oilfield service provider Petrofac has secured contract extensions in the North Sea worth £65 million. Total E&P UK (Total) has awarded a two-year contract extension following a five-year contract for technical services on the Alwyn and Dunbar platforms…

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