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1 October 2021
Neptune Energy begins Dugong Tail drilling campaign
Neptune Energy announced drilling has commenced on the Dugong Tail exploration well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The Dugong Tail is being drilled by the Deepsea Yantai, a semi-submersible rig, owned by CIMC and operated by Odfjell Drilling. It is located within the Neptune-operated Dugong Production Licence…
1 October 2021
Neptune Energy Norge AS – consent for use of Deepsea Yantai
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Neptune Energy Norway AS (Neptune) consent to use the Deepsea Yantai mobile drilling facility for production drilling at Fenja.
1 October 2021
Equinor – consent for extended operation of Statfjord Øst
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Equinor Energy AS (Equinor) consent for extended operation of the Statfjord East field.The PSA has given consent for extended operation of the Statfjord East field until 10 August 2026.
1 October 2021
Wood expands operations in Southern North Sea with Shell and NAM award
Wood, the global consulting and engineering company, continues to expand its operations in the Southern North Sea with the award of a new operations and maintenance contract with Shell UK (SNS) and Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM). The three-year contract, which comes with two one-year options to extend, includes the provision…
1 October 2021
First oil from the Solveig field
Lundin Energy AB (Lundin Energy) announces first oil from the operated Solveig field was achieved on Thursday 30 September 2021. Solveig is a subsea tie back development into the Edvard Grieg platform. The Solveig field in PL359, is located 15 km south of the Edvard Grieg field and the Phase…
1 October 2021
Long term contract award for PSV in Norway
As part of the Frame Agreement between Aker BP and Solstad Offshore, the companies have entered into a new contract for the PSV Far Solitaire. The new contract is for 3 years firm + 6 yearly options and will commence in direct continuation of the current contract, keeping the vessel…
1 October 2021
Wintershall Dea investigates conversion of north sea natural gas pipelines for CO2 transport
High potential for geological storage of CO2 in the southern North Sea Necessary pipeline infrastructure already exists Wintershall Dea starts research project with Regensburg University of Applied Sciences Wintershall Dea, Europe's leading independent gas and oil company, is working with the OTH Regensburg University of Applied Sciences to explore how…
1 October 2021
Hellenic Cables awards cable protection supply contracts to Tekmar Energy
Tekmar Energy Limited, a Tekmar Group Company, is pleased to announce the award of Bend Restrictor supply contracts by Hellenic Cables, the cables segment of Cenergy Holdings, for subsea cable projects in Denmark and Greece. The contract will see Tekmar Energy design, manufacture, and supply Bend Restrictors for the KBH02…
30 September 2021
Subsea 7 awarded major subsea contract
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a major1 contract that will be recorded in the backlog of the Subsea and Conventional business unit in the third quarter. The award extends the engineering, project management and procurement scope of the contract announced on 12 March 2021. The scope of work…
30 September 2021
Contract award for the PSV Viking Lady
Eidesvik Offshore ASA (“Eidesvik”) has been awarded a 3-year time charter contract with Aker BP ASA (“Aker BP”) for the PSV Viking Lady. The contract is awarded in direct continuation of the current charter under the companies’ frame agreement. The contract will commence in January 2022. In addition, Aker BP…
30 September 2021
PGS 3D Data Covers Angola 2021 Offshore Licensing
PGS has 3D seismic data, acquired in partnership with Agência Nacional de Petróleo, Gás e Biocombustíveis (ANPG), covering most of the available opportunities in the Angola 2021 bid round for offshore Kwanza and Lower Congo Basin. The 2021 offshore license round seeks to award eight areas, under Angola’s Petroleum Activities…
30 September 2021
OSI Wins FEED Study for Oil & Gas Subsea Cable System
Ocean Specialists, Inc. (OSI), an integrated marine services contractor providing turnkey projects, marine services technology development and expert consultant services to government, commercial telecom, offshore energy and ocean observing markets globally, today announced the award and kick-off of a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study for a submarine communications cable between…
30 September 2021
SSE Renewables enters into Japanese Offshore Wind Market
SSE Renewables has signed an agreement with Pacifico Energy, one of Japan’s largest developers of renewable energy, to create a joint ownership company that will pursue offshore wind energy development projects in Japan. The creation of the joint ownership company involves the acquisition by SSE Renewables of an 80% interest…
30 September 2021
APA Corporation Announces Keskesi South-1 Appraisal Well Results
APA Corporation (Nasdaq: APA) announced results from appraisal drilling at Keskesi South-1 on Block 58 offshore Suriname. APA Suriname holds a 50% working interest in the block, with TotalEnergies, the operator, holding a 50% working interest. Keskesi South-1, drilled approximately 6.2 kilometers from the discovery well Keskesi East-1, encountered non-commercial…
30 September 2021
Bilfinger set to create €400m engineering and maintenance business following UK merger
Bilfinger UK and Bilfinger Salamis will merge to create new €400 million turnover business under the Bilfinger UK brand The move will combine the strengths of the two firms to expand the services and solutions it can provide to customers The new business will employ 5,000 people at peak periods…
30 September 2021
CNOOC Limited Announces A Large-sized Discovery of Kenli 10-2 in Boha
CNOOC Limited announced that the Company made a large-sized discovery of Kenli 10-2 in Bohai. The Kenli 10-2 oilfield is located in Laizhou Bay Sag in Southern Bohai Bay, with an average water depth of about 15.7 meters. The main oil-bearing formation of Kenli 10-2 oilfield is in the lower…
29 September 2021
IOG plc Successful Blythe Development Well 48/23a-H1 Flow Test
IOG plc ("IOG", or "the Company"), (AIM: IOG.L), the Net Zero UK gas and infrastructure operator focused on high return projects, is pleased to provide an update on the Blythe well 48/23a-H1, the second Phase 1 development well. Highlights · Blythe well successfully drilled, cleaned up and flow tested to…
29 September 2021
TGS Completes Successful 2021 Canada Acquisition, Promises License Round Insight
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, on behalf of the PGS-TGS joint venture, today announced completion of a successful seismic acquisition season offshore Newfoundland, Canada. The newly acquired data provides 3D data coverage to complement the existing 2D grid, enhancing geological and geophysical insights to explorers in…
29 September 2021
£130m subsea cable facility to boost UK offshore renewables sector
JDR Cable Systems (JDR), the global subsea cable and umbilical supplier and servicer, part of the TFK Group, has announced its plans to open a new state-of-the-art subsea cable manufacturing facility in Cambois, near Blyth, Northumberland. JDR has confirmed its intention to go ahead with the project, subject to final…
29 September 2021
bp continues growth in Gulf of Mexico with start-up of Thunder Horse South Expansion Phase 2
bp announced the safe and successful start-up of its Thunder Horse South Expansion Phase 2 project. The Phase 2 project is expected to increase output at one of the largest fields in the Gulf of Mexico, with peak annual average gross production of 25,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day…
29 September 2021
Awind AS become IWS Fleet AS
Awind AS, a fully owned subsidiary of Integrated Wind Solutions (IWS) has today changed name to IWS Fleet AS. The name change reflects the ambitions of Integrated Wind Solutions to become a leading provider of integrated services and solutions to the offshore wind industry. IWS Fleet AS has two high-specification,…
29 September 2021
Montara H6 well successfully brought onstream
Jadestone Energy plc (the “Company”), an independent oil and gas production company focused on the Asia-Pacific region, has announced that the Montara H6 development well has been successfully tied into the field facilities and commenced production. The well delivered an initial rate, after clean-up, approaching 10,000 bbls/d and following a…
29 September 2021
Hurricane Energy plc ("Hurricane" or the "Company") Production Guidance Update
Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company, provides an update on production guidance from the Lancaster field, which takes into account additional production and pressure data gathered since the annual maintenance shutdown in July 2021. On 30 April 2021, the Company provided annual production guidance for the…
29 September 2021
Equinor and Rosneft agree to cooperate on carbon management
On 28 September 2021, Equinor and Rosneft signed an agreement on collaboration in carbon management. The agreement builds on the two companies’ strategic partnership in Russia. Drawing on this longstanding cooperation and aiming to support the goals of the Paris Agreement, Equinor and Rosneft will join forces to develop low…
28 September 2021
DNO Updates North Sea Drilling
DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, today reported an oil discovery on the Gomez prospect in its operated PL006C license offshore Norway. The exploration well encountered hydrocarbons in the primary target in the Våle Formation of Paleocene Age. The reservoir is a 23 meters thick, homogeneous sandstone of…
28 September 2021
Delineation of the 6507/3-13 oil and gas discovery southwest of the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea – 6507/3-14
Equinor Energy AS, operator of production licence 159 B, has concluded the drilling of appraisal well 6507/3-14. The well was drilled about 15 kilometres southwest of the Norne field in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea, and 200 kilometres west of Sandnessjøen. The 6507/3-13 oil and gas discovery was…
28 September 2021
Submitting PDO for Frosk in the Alvheim area
Aker BP (operator) and licence partners Vår Energi AS and Lundin Energy Norway AS submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Frosk field to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE). The development will contribute to production and reduce unit costs in the Alvheim area by utilizing…
28 September 2021
ODL – additional well added to Deepsea Stavanger Equinor Contract
Equinor has exercised one (1) additional well to be added to the Deepsea Stavanger contract. The well has been exercised under the Continued Optionality mechanism in the contract entered into between the parties in May 2020, as part of the overall Master Frame Agreement..The additional well shall follow the current…
28 September 2021
’Esvagt Corona’ extended with Repsol on the Yme field
ESVAGT extends contract with Repsol for standby services until the spring of 2023. ESVAGT has provided services to different operator’s activities on the Yme Field in the Norwegian sector since 2011, and these activities will continue. Respol has extended the contract with ‘Esvagt Corona’ for an additional 18 months. The…
28 September 2021
Tekmar Energy secures subsea protection and buoyancy order from Strohm
Tekmar Energy Limited, a Tekmar Group Company, has secured a contract from Strohm to design, manufacture and supply a subsea protection and buoyancy solution for a Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (“TCP”) Jumper. Strohm (previously Airborne Oil & Gas), the world’s first and leading manufacturer of fully bonded TCP, was awarded a…
28 September 2021
Fugro completes geohazard site investigation activity on Block 58 in Suriname
Fugro has finalised fieldwork on a site investigation programme for TotalEnergies off the north-west coast of Paramaribo in Block 58 of the Guyana-Suriname Basin. The project sits approximately 150 km offshore in water depths ranging from 60 m to 2100 m and involves acquisition and analysis of geophysical data and…
28 September 2021
Chariot Limited ("Chariot", the "Company") MoU for Development of Large-Scale Green Hydrogen Project in Mauritania
The Government of Mauritania, through the Ministry of Petroleum, Mines & Energy and Chariot (AIM: CHAR), the Africa focused transitional energy company, are pleased to announce that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) to progress a potential green hydrogen development, denominated as “Project Nour”, of up to 10GW.…
27 September 2021
Ampelmann responds to growing demand in the Middle East with two new L-type systems
An uptick in projects and an increasing demand for its solutions has prompted Ampelmann, the Dutch offshore access provider, to mobilise two new L-type systems to the Middle East. The company has long been the preferred choice for both national and international oil companies (NOCs and IOCs) in the region,…
27 September 2021
Siemens Gamesa celebrates long-term East Anglia ONE offshore service extension
Siemens Gamesa has announced an extension of the original contract term for servicing the 714 MW East Anglia ONE wind power plant, from five to 15 years with customers ScottishPower Renewables and Bilbao Offshore Holdings Limited. The deal, among the biggest in Siemens Gamesa’s Service business unit’s history, comes just…
27 September 2021
Aquadrill Announces Charter Hire Agreement for the Auriga
Aquadrill LLC ("Aquadrill” or the “Company") has entered into a charter hire agreement with a subsidiary of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (the “Manager”) to provide the Auriga for a one year drilling contract plus a one year mutually agreed option for operations in the US Gulf of Mexico. The charter…
27 September 2021
Eni achieves start-up from Cabaça North development project in the Eastern area of Block 15/06, deep offshore Angola
Eni started production from Cabaça North development project, in Block 15/06 of the Angolan deep offshore, via the Armada Olombendo Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The start-up of Cabaça North is yet another example of how Eni Angola, in full cooperation with ANPG and partners, keeps creating value…
27 September 2021
PGNiG takes over 21 licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
PGNiG Upstream Norway has obtained the consent of the Norwegian administration to take over all the assets of INEOS E&P Norge. Thanks to the finalization of the transaction, the PGNiG Group will acquire a package of prospective deposits, which will significantly contribute to the implementation of strategic goals in the…
27 September 2021
Edge Solutions and INEOS Styrolution collaborate to develop innovative protection for operational wind farms
INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, and Edge Solutions, a Dundee-based innovator dedicated to the optimisation of wind energy generation, announce today the development of armourEDGE protection for wind turbine blades based on a customised version of INEOS Styrolution’s Luran® SC material. ‘Leading edge erosion’ is a serious issue…
27 September 2021
CNOOC Limited Announces Bozhong 19-4 Oilfield Comprehensive Adjustment Project Commences Production
CNOOC Limited announced that Bozhong 19-4 oilfield comprehensive adjustment project has commenced production. Bozhong 19-4 oilfield comprehensive adjustment project is located in the south of Bohai Sea, with average water depth of about 21 meters. In addition to fully utilizing the existing processing facilities of Bozhong 25-1 oilfield, the project…
27 September 2021
Harbour Energy plc “Harbour” or the “Company” or the “Group” Half-year results for the six months to 30 June 2021
Harbour Energy plc announced its half-year results for the period ended 30 June 2021. Financial and operational performance is provided on a reported basis with Premier Oil’s portfolio included from 31 March 2021. Highlights All share merger between Premier Oil plc (“Premier”) and Chrysaor Holdings Ltd (“Chrysaor”) completed; integration and…
24 September 2021
Chariot awarded well services contract by Halliburton
Chariot, the Africa focused transitional energy company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a binding letter of intent with Halliburton, one of the world's largest oil field service companies, for services on Chariot’s planned Anchois gas appraisal well within the Lixus licence, offshore Morocco. more
24 September 2021
PGS Awarded Contract Offshore Suriname
PGS has secured a 3D acquisition contract by ExxonMobil for work offshore Suriname. Ramform Tethys is scheduled to commence acquisition during Q4 2021, and it is planned to complete in Q1 2022. “We are very pleased with this contract award by ExxonMobil. We are increasingly familiar with Caribbean waters and…
24 September 2021
Swire Energy Services wins Ørsted aviation contract for world’s largest offshore wind project
Global energy services provider, Swire Energy Services’ (SES) growth in aviation continues with the award of a new contract with Ørsted in the UK Southern North Sea. The two-year contract, with the option of two one-year extensions, covers the provision of helideck services and helicopter refuelling system services for Hornsea…
24 September 2021
£1million decarbonisation competition for the electrification of offshore oil and gas installations
A £1million competition has been launched to help decarbonise offshore oil and gas production. The competition, managed by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), is designed to advance the widespread electrification of offshore installations on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), which are powered by gas or diesel. Organisers are looking…
24 September 2021
RWE invests in new Grimsby Hub operations & maintenance base
RWE, one of the world’s leading offshore wind companies, is to make a major strategic commitment to the UK’s east coast with the creation of a state-of-the-art operations hub at Grimsby’s Royal Dock. The new ‘Grimsby Hub’ facility will expand the existing Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm base and will…
24 September 2021
Horizon: progress update on WZ12-8E development, China
The standalone self-installing platform (HYSY163) which was fabricated in Qingdao, China was substantially completed. Harbour and jack-up trials of the platform were then finalised prior to towing of the platform to the Beibu Gulf.more
24 September 2021
Seismic vessel utilization recovers to pre-Covid-19 level as market embraces energy transition jobs
The Covid-19 pandemic has been devastating for the seismic industry for several quarters, keeping nearly half of its global fleet inactive – until recently. A Rystad Energy report shows that the seismic fleet’s hibernation is now over, as vessel utilization has recovered to pre-Covid-19 levels in the third quarter of…
23 September 2021
Waves Group Wins Hollandse Kust Noord and West Alpha MWS Contracts
Waves Group is pleased to announce it has been awarded the Marine Warranty Surveyor (MWS) contracts for the installation of TenneT’s Hollandse Kust Noord and West Alpha export power cables. This reinforces our excellent working relationship with TenneT, with work currently ongoing on the Hollandse Kust Zuid which is set…
23 September 2021
Shearwater GeoServices awarded Australian 3D seismic survey by Beach Energy
The Prion 3D Seismic Survey is expected to start in late October, in the Bass Strait of Australia. Lasting nearly two-months, the approximately 890 sqkm survey will be conducted by the Geo Coral. The survey will use an advanced multicomponent sensor streamer system enabling superior broadband data for use in…
23 September 2021
Jersey Oil & Gas Announces Interim Results for Six Month Period Ended 30 June 2021
Jersey Oil & Gas, an independent upstream oil and gas company focused on the UK Continental Shelf region of the North Sea, is pleased to announce its unaudited Interim Results for the six month period ended 30 June 2021. click here to view the results