The North Sea's first floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), the Petrojarl I, has been delivered to owner Teekay after a two and a half year project to make it ready for its next deployment. The Petrojarl 1, a Tentech 685 design vessel…
Newcomer Point Resources has entered the playing field as a mid-sized Norwegian exploration and production (E&P) company, signing a deal with ExxonMobil to acquire the supermajor’s operated upstream business in Norway. The Jotun A…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has carried out an audit of AkerBP's arrangements for the administration and management of emergency preparedness and materials handling at Ivar Aasen in the North Sea. Ivar Aasen…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted ExxonMobil consent to start-up the subsea facility for production well 25/11-E-29 AH on the Balder field, nearly one week after the supermajor gained approval from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA)…
ExxonMobil has received consent to use a new subsea well on the Balder field. ExxonMobil is the operator of the Balder field, in block 25/11 in the Norwegian North Sea, around 190km west of Stavanger. The Balder field belongs to production licence PL 001…
Oceaneering has entered into a master service agreement with Heerema Marine Contractors through to December 2020. Under the agreement, Oceaneering will provide up to 10 remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems with associated subsea tooling…
Quest Offshore's Andrew Jackson discusses how the depressed global market dynamics are affecting one of the world's premier deepwater basins. Oil from the Bonga North West underground reservoirs…
ExxonMobil is seeking a permit to plug 22 wells at its Jotun field in the North Sea, with start-up planned for April, according to news reports. The Jotun vessel. Image from ExxonMobil. The…
Suncor Energy's latest exploration well close to to the Balder field has been classified as dry by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Exploration well 25/10-14 S was drilled on production license 571 near the Balder field offshore Norway…
Norway's Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has given Lundin the green light to start production from the Edvard Grieg field. The field is in production license 338 in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. According to the NPD, the…
Lundin is on track to start up tohe Edward Grieg field this month after Norway's Petroleum Safety have the firm the green light for start-up and operation. The Edvard Grieg field is 35km of the Grane and Balder fields in 110m water depth…
It was the first floating production unit in the North Sea and it’s still going strong – with a deployment to its latest field, on its 12th contract, due to start next year. Elaine Maslin looks at Teekay Offshore’s Petrojarl I. The Petrojarl I FPSO…
ExxonMobil awarded Ocean Installer its first call-off contract for subsea well tie-back, engineering, IRM (inspection, maintenance and repair), ROV and associated services at the Balder field. The Normand Mermaid…
When developing the Lucius and Heidelberg fields in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Anadarko Petroleum opted for a “design one, build two” strategy. Audrey Leon reports on how the Lucius field, which began production in January, came to be…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) granted an extension to ExxonMobil to use the Jotun A floating production storage offloading (FPSO) vessel and Jotun B wellhead platform beyond their original expected lifetimes in the North Sea…