A trial is set to begin in New Orleans, Lousiana today, to determine how much BP will pay in Clean Water Act penalties for its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana last week said that for purposes o
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use West Epsilon rig for production drilling on the Gudrun field located in the North Sea. Gudrun is 50 kilometres north of the Sleipner Øst and Sleipner Vest fields. Water depth is around 110 metres. Gudrun has been de
Petrolia’s subsidiary, Petrolia Norway AS, has announced that drilling of exploration well 26/10-1 in PL674BS, offshore Norway, has started. The well will investigate the hydrocarbon potential of the Zulu prospect in PL674BS, located 100 km west of Stavanger on the Norwegian west coast and approxima
British Transport Police has issued an appeal to trace offshore worker with links to Great Yarmouth after woman sexually assaulted in Grantham. British Transport Police (BTP) officers yesterday released images of a man they wish to speak with after a woman was sexually assaulted on a train travellin
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of maintenance, process safety and occupational health and safety at Ula platforms, located in the North Sea. BP Norge AS (BP) is the operator on the Ula field, an oil field in block 7/12 in the southern part of the North Sea. The
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of groups at particular risk and emergency preparedness on Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig. From 10 to 13 November 2014, the PSA carried out an audit of the efforts of Ocean Rig and RWE Dea to identify and follow up gr
Companies in the deepwater drilling market have lost more than half of their value over the last year; Transocean, Seadrill, ENSCO and Diamond are currently priced 56% lower on average compared to January 2014 in line with the decrease in oil prices, Douglas-Westwood, an energy market intelligence c
Claxton, an Acteon company, is extending its large surface riser inventory to meet operators’ needs as more heavy-duty jack-up rigs enter the North Sea. The company, which already has more than 560 feet of rapid call-off surface riser stock, is adding new joints in the size and pressure required to
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Statoil’s design engineering of Cat J drilling rigs. The basis of the audit was Barriers and At-risk groups. The PSA said that the audit’s themes concerned occupational health and safety, drilling and well activities, materials
The articles you have read the most in the past week include Offshore Energy Today’s coverage of two videos; the first video shows Borgholm Dolphin offshore facility being rocked by waves and strong winds in the North Sea and the second one shows the Alvheim FPSO being battered by the winter storm N
Ruling on the issues raised in the Phase 2 trial of the Deepwater Horizon case: the quantification of oil spilled and BP’s source control efforts following the accident, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana found BP was not grossly negligent, reckless, wilful, or wanton
Spanish oil company Repsol has completed the exploration well, located offshore the Canary Islands. The well, spudded in November, in the Atlantic Ocean about 60 kilometres from Lanzarote and Fuerteventura was drilled to analyse the possible existence of hydrocarbons. According to the company, the a
Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) is reducing its ownership in licence 9/95 on the Danish continental shelf from 20.1 per cent to 16 per cent. The licence is located close to the gas discovery Svane, in the Danish sector of the North Sea. The ownership is being transferred to Nordsøfonden, which
Ocean Rig UDW Inc., a provider of offshore deepwater drilling services, has received firm commitments from lenders for up to a $475 million syndicated secured term loan to partially finance the construction costs of the Ocean Rig Apollo. The company says that the facility amount is for the lesser of
