Dolphin Geophysical has secured a contract to carry out a 3D seismic survey in the North Sea from an undisclosed client. The survey will be acquired by the high capacity 3D vessel M/V Polar Duke, commencing in August for the duration of approximately five weeks. ”We now have a full backlog for the Summer Season”, says Håvard Åsli, Regional Marketing and [...]
Flexlife, a specialist provider of flexible pipe technologies and engineering services, has successfully used its new integrity monitoring technology at Chevron’s Captain field in the UK North Sea. FlexGuard is an early detection system for possible riser integrity issues, designed to provide continuous real-time data on the condition of flexible risers. With more than 3000 [...]
TAQA, the global energy company based in Abu Dhabi, on Saturday, June 1, 2013, completed the acquisition of UK North Sea oil and gas assets from BP. TAQA takes over as operator of the Harding field and production platform in the Central North Sea, complementing the company’s existing assets in the Northern North Sea. The [...]
Ezra Holdings Limited, a Singapore-based offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry, today confirmed that its subsea division, EMAS AMC’s pipelay vessel the Lewek Centurion has been contracted by Cecon in the North Sea for some 60km of pipeline installation work, in support of Cecon’s 2013 project [...]
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Lundin Petroleum has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7/4-3, offshore Norway. The well was drilled 24 km north of the Lundin Petroleum operated Brynhild field in the North Sea, offshore Norway, and approximately 22 km east of the UK Everest field. The exploration well 7/4-3 was targeting the Upper Triassic and Upper Cretaceous reservoirs [...]
International energy consultancy Xodus Group has secured a contract worth £1.3 million to deliver the subsea Front End Engineering Design (FEED) study for the Premier Oil Catcher project in the Central North Sea. The scope of work will involve two phases. A review of previous and current studies, preliminary process flow diagrams and investigative work [...]
Norway’s Det norske oljeselskap ASA has come to an agreement with Total E&P Norge AS with regards to transfer of participating interests in three licenses. In the Barents Sea, Det norske assigns ten per cent of license 535, which contain the Norvarg discovery, to Total. After the transaction Det norske holds ten per cent share [...]
Bilfinger Salamis UK has been awarded a major contract by Chevron Upstream Europe (CUE) to provide a full range of fabric maintenance services on the company’s North Sea platforms. The flagship contract, with a potential value of approximately £50 million, runs for three years and has two additional renewal options. The contract builds on the [...]
Rocksource Exploration Norway AS, operator of production licence 506 S, has completed drilling of wildcat well 26/5-1. The well is dry. The well was drilled about 62 kilometres east of the Frøy field in the central part of the North Sea offshore Norway. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in [...]
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Talisman Energy Norge AS a drilling permit for well 2/1-16 S, in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. Well 2/1-16 S will be drilled from the Mærsk Giant jack-up rig, at position 56°51’1.72’’ north and 3°18’52.69” east. The drilling programme for well 2/1-16 S relates to drilling of [...]
