Bond Offshore Helicopters Ltd., operator of the helicopter that ditched into the North Sea last Thursday, concurs with the initial findings of the AAIB interim Service Bulletin S2/2012 which indicates component failure. The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch’s bulletin states that, “An initial visual inspection of the main gearbox has identified a 360° circumferential crack on [...]
Development drilling operations have commenced at Breagh field in the UK Southern North Sea, Sterling Resources report. The Ensco 70 rig has been deployed to start the Breagh development drilling program in anticipation of first gas production from the field during the third quarter. Previously drilled wells 42/13- 3 and 42/13- 5Z, suspended for future [...]
Nautical Petroleum plc announces that the Carnaby exploration well 28/9-5 in Central North Sea Block 28/9 was spudded at 05:45 hours on Friday 11 May 2012. The well is being drilled using the Sedco 711 semi-submersible rig and is being managed by Applied Drilling Technology International (ADTI). The well is expected to take approximately 25 [...]
Oil & Gas UK’s Q1 2012 business confidence index published yesterday (10 May) reveals that the confidence of the upstream oil and gas industry across Britain has risen to 64 points on a 100 point scale – the highest since the survey was launched in Q1 2009. However, the leap in optimism is driven by [...]
Bond Offshore Helicopters Ltd, one of the UK’s leading providers of energy support services reports that at 12.13h yesterday an Eurocopter EC225 helicopter (registration G-REDW) outbound from Aberdeen going to the Ensco102 Maersk Resilient platform made a controlled descent 24 nautical miles off-shore. The Captain and Co-pilot made the controlled descent and landed on the [...]
Aberdeen Coastguard has confirmed that a helicopter has been forced to ditch into the North Sea 30 miles east of Aberdeen. 14 people on board have been confirmed to be in a liferaft and rescue units are now on scene. Aberdeen Coastguard was alerted at 12.15pm that a Bond helicopter was on route from Aberdeen [...]
TGS has commenced acquisition of a 3D multi-client survey covering 3,210 km2 in the Erlend Basin on the UK Continental Shelf, West of Shetlands. This is the first multi-client 3D survey in the Erlend Basin and builds on the improved imaging shown by the reprocessed TGS North Sea Renaissance 2D data. The survey covers open [...]
MPX North Sea Ltd has completed suspension operations on well 3/3b-13Z (Orlando) and the Awilco Wihunter has moved to Block 211/11b adjacent to the Magnus Field to drill the Timon Prospect. Well 211/11b-7 was spudded on 4th May 2012 and is anticipated to take around 40 days drilling to a total depth of approximately 11,000 [...]
Cairn, an Edinburgh-based private exploration and production company, has today completed the acquisition of Agora Oil & Gas AS (“Agora”) for a total consideration of approximately USD 453 million. Agora which is now a part of Cairn Group companies, is a Norwegian firm with non-operated exploration, appraisal and development assets in the UK and Norwegian [...]
Xcite Energy announces that drilling of the 9/3b-7 well on the Bentley field is progressing satisfactorily, having reached a total depth of 6684ft. The 17½” section has been drilled, 13⅜”casing set, cemented and pressure tested. The 12¼” hole has been drilled. After the 10¾” x 9⅝” liner has been set, cemented and pressure tested, drilling [...]
