Equinor, along with its partners in the Statfjord area, has identified and approved plans to extend production from the field towards 2040. A new business plan will ensure the higher use of resources, extract more value from the field, and allow plans for decommissioning Statfjord A in 2022 to be de
Oslo-listed seismic player Seabird said it has received a letter of award for a 3D survey in Asia. The survey starts at the end of Q1 and is expected to be completed in Q2 this year. The company said it will use a third party vessel and equipment for this survey as it seeks to […]
UK-based oil and gas technology development company, Deep Casing Tools (DCT), together with its partner Innovaciones Petroleras Omega (InPO), has signed a master service agreement with a national oil company. The agreement will see the operator award DCT contracts and orders with an initial value of
Shearwater GeoServices has received Letters of Intent for three Isometrix 4D towed streamer projects by Equinor, and a 4D Qseabed Ocean Bottom Seismic (OBS) project by Lundin Norway for the 2020 North Sea summer season. “We are delighted to see clients booking 4D capacity early for the 2020 season,
A hybrid remotely operated vehicle developed by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) took the first known automated sample performed by a robotic arm in the ocean. Last month, an international team of researchers used one of WHOI’s underwater robots, Nereid Under Ice (NUI), to explore Kolumbo
The Government of Senegal has approved the Rufisque Offshore, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore (RSSD) joint venture Exploitation Plan and granted the Exploitation Authorization for the Sangomar field development. Woodside submitted development and exploitation plan for the Sangomar (form
The Montrose Port Authority (MPA) has signed a seven-year extension to its contract with Baker Hughes for the provision of internal and external storage facilities. Captain Tom Hutchison, CEO of Montrose Port Authority said: “We are delighted to extend what is already a long-standing and mutually be
The UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has expanded its leadership team with three recent appointments. Scott Robertson has been promoted to director of operations, and replaces Gunther Newcombe who will be retiring in March 2020. Robertson will be responsible for the OGA’s Exploration, Production, Deco
Aker Solutions has received a contract to provide subsea control systems for Beach Energy’s Otway project Phase 4 and 5, offshore Victoria, Australia. “The award demonstrates Aker Solutions’ leading technology in subsea control systems and the on going drive to meet complex customer requirements in
AIS Training and Survivex, part of the 3T Energy Group, has secured a contract with well decommissioning specialist, Well-Safe Solutions, to manage and deliver all of its training requirements and provide an IT platform to support its Competence Management System. The three-year contract will see AI
Northrop Grumman’s AQS-24 mine hunting sonar has recently completed initial in-water testing of a Deploy and Retrieval (D&R) payload. Operated from the Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vessel (MCM USV), the AQS-24 D&R demonstrated the unmanned operations needed to perform a mine hunting mission
Equinor’s Johan Sverdrup field centre will be officially opened by Norway’s prime minister Erna Solberg today. The Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Sylvi Listhaug, will also attend the opening, Equinor informed. Since Equinor and the Johan Sverdrup partners Lundin Norway, Petoro, Aker BP and Total
Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) has completed the installation of 58 monopile foundations and two offshore substation foundations at the SeaMade offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea. Installation works kicked off in September 2019 with DEME’s offshore installation vessel
Energean and the Public Gas Corporation of Greece (DEPA) have agreed to cooperate to further support the EastMed Pipeline Project. Ahead of the Intergovernmental Agreement on the EastMed Pipeline, to be signed later today by the Ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Israel responsible for Energy, Energean
