
UK authorities have approved the plan for the removal of the Petrojarl Banff FPSO and Apollo Spirit FSO from Canadian Natural Resources’ Banff and Kyle fields in the UK sector of the Central North Sea.

Hurricane Energy’s request to extend the deadline for activities planned on the Lincoln license off the UK has been approved by UK authorities.

Petrofac’s Engineering & Production Services business has begun the activity on its previously awarded well decommissioning contract for the Rubie and Renee fields located off the UK.

Island Victory, Island Offshore’s installation vessel, has started work on an enormous anchor system being deployed at Equinor’s Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea.

South Korea’s shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industry has lifted the first topside module onboard the Coral Sul floating liquefied natural gas unit that will be used for a project offshore Mozambique. With the lifting of the power generation module, the FLNG project led by Italy’s Eni marks the beginning

Prosafe sank deeper into the red in the first quarter of 2020 due to impairment charges resulting from the oil price collapse and the coronavirus pandemic.

Allseas’ giant Pioneering Spirit offshore construction and decommissioning vessel was the home of the first-ever drone to vessel delivery in the Netherlands last week.

Delek Group and Delek Energy have signed an agreement with a third party for the sale of the rights to royalties regarding 26.4705 per cent of rights in the Karish and Tanin leases for oil, gas, and other valuable materials produced and processed at the leases.

Beach Energy is preparing for exploration drilling in the Canterbury Basin offshore New Zealand, which could include up to 11 wells.

Bahamas Petroleum has signed a drilling contract with Stena Drilling for the provision of a rig for its Perseverance #1 well, located offshore The Bahamas, thereby ditching its previous plans to use a Seadrill-owned rig.

Russian oil and gas company Lukoil completed the installation of a jacket for an accommodation platform topside at the V.I. Grayfer field in the Caspian Sea.

Italian offshore contractor Saipem has signed a two-year frame agreement with Norwegian energy giant Equinor covering engineering services worldwide.

An independent resources audit of the Conrad Petroleum-operated Mako gas field, located in the Duyung PSC offshore Indonesia, has confirmed a significant upgrade, showing that the Mako field is one of the largest gas fields ever discovered in the West Natuna Basin.

Beach Energy has cancelled its proposed Otway development pre-drilling anchoring program, which was under evaluation by Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA).