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DeepOcean Secures Subsea IMR Work for UK Operator

Sep 25, 2024

Ocean services provider DeepOcean has entered into a long-term frame agreement with a UK-based operator for the provision of diverless subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services offshore U.K.Two call-offs have now been executed for offshore work in 2024 since the contract award…

New Oil and Gas Discovery in North Sea Confirms Heisenberg Prospect’s Reserves

Sep 24, 2024

Equinor and its partner DNO have made an oil and gas discovery in the northern part of the North Sea, delineating the play-opening 2023 Heisenberg discovery and confirming its volume estimate of 24 to 56 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe) with mean of 37 MMboe…

Equinor Makes Oil and Gas Discovery in North Sea

Sep 17, 2024

Equinor and its partners have made an oil and gas discovery on the Gudrun field in the North Sea, offshore Norway, using Odfjell Drilling's Deepsea Stavanger semi-submersible drilling rig.The discovery was made in wildcat wells 15/3-13 S and 15/3-13 A…

SLB OneSubsea Eyes C-Power’s Wave Energy Tech for Powering Subsea Assets

Sep 13, 2024

SLB has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) through its OneSubsea joint venture with C-Power aimed at exploring the use wave energy as a lower-cost, lower-carbon power source for subsea energy applications.Subsea Integration Alliance partners SLB OneSubsea and Subsea7 will together with U…

Partly Electrified Equinor’s Troll Field Starts Operating with Reduced Emissions

Sep 11, 2024

Equinor-operated Troll B and C platforms in the North Sea have become partly powered from shore, which will result in the reduction of annual emissions from the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) by 250,000 tonnes of CO2.The achievement is in…

Archer Nets Long-Term Drilling Deal with OKEA

Sep 11, 2024

Oilfield services firm Archer has secured a new five-year platform drilling contract with OKEA for work at Brage development, offshore Norway.The new contract has an initial estimated value of $79 million (NOK 850) million over a firm five-year…

Oil Production Starts at Aker BP’s Tyrving Field

Sep 03, 2024

The production of oil from the Tryving filed in the Alvheim area offshore Norway, operated by Aker BP, with Petoro and PGNiG Upstream Norway as partners, has begun.The Tyrving development leverages the planned extended lifetime for the Alvheim…

RWE Installs HVDC Converter Platform at Sofia Offshore Wind Farm

Sep 02, 2024

RWE has installed an offshore converter platform at 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm, its largest offshore wind development under construction in UK waters.The offshore converter platform (OCP), which converts high voltage alternating current (AC) to high voltage direct current (DC)…

DNO Concludes Acquisition of Stakes in Five Norne Area Oil and Gas Fields

Sep 02, 2024

Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO has completed the acquisition of stakes in five oil and gas fields, including an operatorship, in the Norne area in the Norwegian Sea from Vår Energi.Following the closing of the transaction, DNO’s wholly-owned…

Subsea7 Hires GEG to Fabricate Subsea Spools for Aker BP’s Yggdrasil Field

Aug 15, 2024

Global Energy Group (GEG) has been awarded a contract from Subsea7 Norway, to fabricate 134 subsea spools for the Aker BP-operated Yggdrasil field in the North Sea.The work will be executed from GEG’s flagship multi-user energy facility at the Port of Nigg…

DNO Norge Gets Clearance for North Sea Drilling Operation

Aug 14, 2024

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted DNO Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea, to be conducted using Noble Corporation's Noble Invincible ultra-harsh environment jack-up rig.The drilling permit is for a wellbore2/6-7 S in production license 1086…

Norway Greenlights Equinor’s Drilling Ops in North Sea

Aug 09, 2024

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Equinor a permit to drill a wildcat well in the North Sea, using Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Atlantic rig.The drilling permit is for wellbore 35/11-30 S in production license 090, which is operated by Equinor with 45% working interest…

Petrofac Secures Multi-Million-Dollar FEED Contract for Aramis CCS Project

Aug 01, 2024

TotalEnergies EP Nederland has awarded a multi-million-dollar front-end-engineering design (FEED) contract to Petrofac for a CO2 injection platform as part of the Aramis carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the Netherlands.The project…

North Sea Oil and Gas Producers Say UK Windfall Tax is a 'Wrecking Ball'

Aug 01, 2024

Britain's decision to increase a windfall tax on oil and gas producers to help pay for its push to grow renewables will lead to a sharp drop in revenue and accelerate the ageing basin's decline, North Sea drillers said.The new Labour government…

Viaro Energy Acquires Shell and ExxonMobil’s UK Southern North Sea Assets

Jul 30, 2024

UK-based oil and gas company Viaro Energy reached an agreement with Shell and ExxonMobil for the acquisition of a full working interest in the Shell-operated UK Southern North Sea assets owned by the two supermajors.Viaro Energy made the deal…

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