At the outset of the plenary session Tuesday morning, conference chair Malcolm Webb led the room in a moment of silent reflection for the victims, survivors, families, and rescue personnel involved in the helicopter crash off Shetland last week…
Emas AMC’s newly converted S-lay deepwater pipelay vessel Lewek Centurion has just completed its first contract since its conversion, laying pipe for Wintershall in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The vessel was acquired from Helix Energy Solutions in July…
Twenty years after it came online, the UK’s longest serving permanently-moored FPSO has been given a new lease on life. Elaine Maslin reports on the extent the UK’s largest offshore project in 2012. When production from the central North Sea Gryphon field came online in October 1993…
Cubility’s MudCube shale shaker made a name for itself on its first commercial installation on Maersk Drilling’s Maersk Giant in the North Sea. The North Sea has long been a critical area of exploration and production within the oil and gas industry…
The combined application of the ISO-MAX security packer and selective rotation and circulation tool (SRCT) helped a North Sea operator prevent losses during well displacement, thus ensuring well integrity and improving the chances of a successful completion…
New vessels, acquisitions, and expertise are driving Dutch growth. Elaine Maslin reports. The Dutch offshore sector is leveraging its engineering and seafaring traditions to grow its presence in the global oil and gas industry. The…
The Danish offshore is a mature oil and gas province with 40 years of production, but the Danish Energy Agency’s latest annual report,* says that the country is expected to remain a net exporter of oil through 2020, while gas production is…
High activity levels in the North Sea are making an attractive market for Damen Shipyards. Last year, its biggest newbuild market was in tugs and work boats, with 80 delivered. Now, the firm has turned its attention to oil and gas industry support vessels with its new Damen Offshore Series…
Norway’s offshore region covers 2.04 million sq km and is split into five areas: the northern, southern and central parts of the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. Over the five regions, there have been 1400 exploration wells drilled since 1966…
Höegh FLNG awarded pre-FEED Höegh FLNG Ltd. has been awarded a pre-FEED study for a jetty-moored 2MMTA FLNG near-shore barge for a North American LNG export project. The study will be executed in 2H 2013. Meta wins Shell tiebacks Meta Downhole Ltd…
Huisman has secured a contract for the delivery of a 1,500mt @ 32m “leg-encircling crane” for Seajacks new offshore wind farm installation vessel, Scylla. The contract for the 1,500mt crane was awarded to Huisman by the South Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries…
EnQuest will have a new prestigious North Sea base in the Granite City after planning permission was granted for a high-quality office development on the derelict Aberdeen Seafood Park site in the harbour area. The firm, which is the largest UK independent oil producer in the UK North Sea…
Senergy was awarded a framework agreement by Statoil ASA to provide geotechnical representatives for site investigation work. The agreement, which has been secured through Senergy’s survey and geo-engineering division, is for projects on the Norwegian continental shelf…
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS (KOGT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA (KOG), has signed an agreement with Statoil for the delivery of subsea structures, in-line tees, tie-in and connection systems for the Polarled gas pipeline…
Noreco has announced that due to a defect gas compressor, the Ula field in the Norwegian North Sea, will not be able to receive and process production from satellite fields, the field's operator, BP, has informed. This means that the Oselvar field will also be shut down…