Well-Safe Solutions has appointed a director of well abandonment, adding to the new company's list of decommissioning experts. Matt Jenkins has joined Well-Safe from Conoco where he led the firm's UK plug and abandonment (P&A) engineering…
Production at Noble Energy’s Tamar platform offshore Israel has come to a stop after a crack was found in an emission pipe used to release natural gas and pressure, according to partner Delek Drilling. The Tamar platform…
Uruguay's Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM) and national oil firm ANCAP have launched the Uruguay Round 3, an offshore licensing round. Image from iStock. Seventeen…
Australian operator OMV has found additional oil on its Barents Sea Wisting field through its latest appraisal well 7324/8-3, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). Wisting. Map from NPD…
It's time to put your company in the limelight: the 2018 Offshore Achievement Awards (OAA) has been launched and it looking for entries. The annual event was launched during SPE Offshore Europe 2017 in Aberdeen. The annual awards, organized…
Wellesley Petroleum’s Goanna prospect offshore Norway has revealed disappointing results, as no hydrocarbons were found, according to partner Faroe Petroleum. Image from iStock. The…
Aibel lifted the final three modules into place for the Johan Sverdrup drilling platform earlier this week. The platform arrived in Haugesund on 5 September, where the facility will remain for hook-up and preparation work, until it is handed over to Statoil in mid-2018…
BP has begun evacuating personnel from the Gulf of Mexico, as Category 5 Hurricane Irma churns in the Atlantic Ocean, making its way towards Florida. The projected path for Hurricane Irma. Image from the US National Weather Service…
Despite taking the job as head of a new industry regulator, in the midst of what has become one of the industry’s worst downturns, Andy Samuel is still a man who sees opportunity on the UK Continental Shelf – but not without continued effort…
Wellesley Petroleum has started drilling on the Goanna exploration well in the northern Norwegian North Sea. The well, 39/9-22 S, in license PL 881, is near the border with the UK and adjacent to the giant producing Statfjord and Snorre fields…
Operators are evacuating platforms and rigs as Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 hurricane, spins in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). Hurricane Harvey's path…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wellesley Petroleum a drilling permit for well 33/9-22 S, targeting the Goanna prospect in the North Sea. PL 881. Map from NPD. Well…
Oil and gas operators are preparing for the approach of Tropical Storm Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico, as the US National Hurricane Center warns Harvey could form into a hurricane by Friday. Coastal watches/warnings and forecast cone for storm center…
Statoil has struck a minor gas find at a wildcat well near the Heidrun field in the Norwegian Sea where it could become a possible tieback, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). Map of 6507/8-9…
KBR has confirmed that the company has been awarded the pre-front end engineering design (FEED) and project support services contracts for the development of the Tortue / Ahmeyim field, offshore Mauritania and Senegal. OE reported in…