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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Following similar orders placed in November 2012 and August 2013, Norway-based Siem Offshore contracted Wärtsilä to supply the design and integrated solutions for four new platform supply vessels (PSVs). The ships will be built at the Remontowa Shipbuilding yard in Poland…
A&P Falmouth has been awarded a contract by Seatricity to build a wave energy device to be deployed at the offshore renewable test facility Wave Hub. A&P Falmouth, in Falmouth, UK, will manufacture, fabricate, and assemble the wave energy converting device…
Norway's ClampOn has won an order to supply 130 topside leak monitors for Statoil’s Gina Krog project (pictured). The contract was awarded by Solberg & Andersen in Bergen, Norway, and will be part of their ValveWatch condition monitoring system…
Finland's Wärtsilä has signed a contract for a range of pumping solutions for a new floating storage unit (FSU) to be used on the Mariner oilfield in the North Sea (pictured). Wärtsilä's contract is with South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI)…
Hyundai Heavy Industries (Hyundai) has awarded Kvaerner a sub-contract to provide services for inshore and offshore hook-up and commissioning assistance for the topsides for the Aasta Hansteen spar project (pictured). The inshore-work…
UK-based engineering and project management firm AMEC and its partners in the AJS joint venture, Jacobs and Stork, have secured a five-year contract extension for the integrated services contract for the Shell ONEgas assets in the southern North Sea…
Statoil and its partners on the giant Johan Sverdrup field have chosen a four-platform development concept, with power from shore. The field, containing 1.8-2.9billion boe, is one of the five largest discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)…
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