Petrofac’s Offshore Projects & Operations business unit has secured contract renewals for operations and maintenance work worth approximately $400 million on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). According to Petrofac, the largest of these awards is for the provision of operations and maintenance teams f
Lundin has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use the ‘Maersk Guardian’ drilling rig to permanently plug subsea well 7/8-5 S, in the Norwegian North Sea. According to PSA, the work is expected to take around 18 days. ‘Mærsk Guardian’ is a jack-up drilling rig, owned
Between 16 and 20 March 2015, the Petroleum Safety Norway (PSA) audited Statoil and Maersk Drilling regarding drilling operations at the Romeo and Julius exploration wells in southern part of the North Sea, using ‘Maersk Gallant’. The PSA says that the objective of the audit was to verify Statoil an
Ezion Holdings Limited has announced that Atlantic Marine Services B.V. (AMS) has dropped the lawsuit in the Singapore High Court against Ezion. Ezion said in the press release that AMS, a company managing Ezion’s liftboats in the North Sea, has agreed to release and discharge the company from all c
Dolphin Drilling Ltd, a subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy, has entered into a contract amendment for the provision of the Tender Support Vessel Borgsten Dolphin with Total E&P UK Ltd. The company has said that the amendment covers a revised contract period starting October 1, 2015 and continuing to J
Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 378, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 35/12-5 S, in the Norwegian North Sea. The well is dry. The well was drilled about 15 km southwest of the Gjøa field in the Norwegian North Sea and 80 kilometres southwest of Florø, Norway. According
Teekay’s flotel, the Arendal Spirit, has successfully completed acceptance tests in Brazilian waters and is now in full operation for Petrobras under a 3-year charter contract. The unit arrived to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in May, after a long journey from the COSCO shipyard in China, and underwent acc
ABS, a provider of marine and offshore classification services, has been selected by Baoham Offshore (HK) Ltd. to class a semi-submersible drilling rig and a liftboat. “This award is a reflection of the solid reputation ABS has built as a classification society over more than 30 years in China,” say
Saga Tankers has launched a mandatory takeover offer for the Oslo-listed Standard Drilling, a former drilling contractor, now an investment firm. The company owns 59.93 per cent of the total issued and outstanding shares of Standard Drilling, and is now looking to acquire the remaining shares. Saga
Swedish independent oil company Lundin Petroleum has started drilling the exploration well 16/4-9 S on the Luno II North prospect in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The Luno II discovery is located approximately 15 km south of the Edvard Grieg field. The well is located in PL359 and will explore the
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted drilling permits to Repsol Exploration Norge AS and VNG Norge AS for Norwegian Sea wells. Repsol received consent to drill wildcat well 6306/5-2 in production licence 642. The well will be drilled from the Bredford Dolphin semi-submersible drilli
Edison Energy Norge AS is getting ready to spud the Haribo prospect in PL616, located some 10 kilometres from the Valhall platform in the southern part of the Norwegian North Sea. According to Marine Traffic data, the semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Searcher is heading to Haribo location an
Wintershall has informed that the unmanned mini-platform L6-B has started to produce natural gas off the Dutch North Sea coast. The first so called “Minimum Facility” platform was built in just nine months and brought to its offshore location in June 2014. According to Wintershall, the advantage of
The Shell-operated Polar Pioneer drilling rig which will be drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea, offshore Alaska, has left the Port of Seattle and is now being towed to its drilling location. The departure of the Transocean-owned drilling unit on Monday morning local time did not go as planned for S
