NAM is converting various manned Dutch North Sea platforms to normally unmanned installations or removing functionality from existing platforms to cut maintenance costs.
Frames to support Shell North Sea platform changes
Frames has secured a three-year goods and services purchase contract with ONEgas - the combined business unit of Shell UK and Shell’s Dutch subsidiary Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij.
Dec 16th, 2019
With a sleeve installed in the completion that can be opened and closed down in the well, it is now possible to fracture several zones with only one trip into the well.
Well stimulation technique successful in North Sea Valhall wells
Dec 13th, 2019
Equinor1213
Castberg partners rule out Barents Sea oil terminal
Dec 13th, 2019
Gd1213
Northwest Europe gas output set for steep decline
Dec 13th, 2019
Wood will modify the Snorre A and Gullfaks A platforms to receive power from the Hywind floating wind park.
Wood to modify North Sea platforms for Hywind wind farm
Dec 11th, 2019
Featured
One of the platforms at the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf.
Iran cuts platform maintenance times
Dec 5th, 2019
Rystad1241
Offshore to drive record non-OPEC production growth next year, says Rystad
Dec 4th, 2019
Websiteimage Sunset
API updates offshore safety and environmental standard
Dec 4th, 2019
The company performed its largest reservoir stimulation job to date for an unnamed major in the Danish North Sea.
Stimulation technique boosts production in Danish North Sea well
Dec 4th, 2019
Websiteimage Sunset
Husky details offshore start-ups and shutdowns in 2020
Dec 3rd, 2019
Stauper’s compact flotation unit ‘polishes’ produced water by introducing gas bubbles from the bottom of a vessel where the bubbles attach to the oil particles left in the water.
Equinor approves produced water treatment technique
Dec 3rd, 2019
Work is continuing on the Tyra offshore facilities to ensure ‘safe state’ in January 2020.
Danish North Sea Tyra production shut for redevelopment
Dec 2nd, 2019
The Heimdal platform in the Norwegian North Sea.
Two hospitalized following North Sea Heimdal explosion
One of the employees injured last week during an accident on the Heimdal platform in the Norwegian North Sea remains in a serious condition, according to operator Equinor.
Dec 2nd, 2019
The Greater Stella Area production hub is in the Central Graben area of the UK central North Sea.
Ithaca drills first wells as North Sea Captain operator
Ithaca Energy has issued an update on its UK North Sea operations, which include the recently acquired operatorship of various fields from Chevron.
Dec 2nd, 2019
BIG-P production is tied into the existing block A infrastructure, and supports the company’s long-term gas sales contracts into Singapore.
Premier starts up offshore Indonesia gas fields
Premier Oil has produced first gas from its Bison, Iguana and Gajah Puteri fields in block A in the Natuna Sea offshore Indonesia.
Dec 2nd, 2019
Aerial view of the Mittelplate A drilling and production platform.
Digital twin extending life of North Sea Mittelplate platform
Wintershall Dea is looking to optimize operations and work processes on the 30-year-old Mittelplate platform in the German North Sea by constructing a digital twin of the facility and the associated land-based Dieksand complex.
Nov 26th, 2019
Gas hydrates with no anti-agglomerants.
Low-dose hydrate inhibitors present new flow assurance option
A relatively new technology for hydrate mitigation is the family of chemical additives known as low dose hydrate inhibitors.
Nov 26th, 2019
The Statfjord A platform is in the Norwegian North Sea.
North Sea Statfjord field enters fifth decade of production
Equinor has commemorated 40 years of production from the Statfjord oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea.
Nov 25th, 2019
The Miskar gas field is in the Gulf of Gabes off Tunisia.
BV to safeguard equipment integrity at Miskar offshore Tunisia
Shell Tunisia Upstream has awarded Bureau Veritas Solutions – Marine & Offshore a three-year agreement covering asset integrity management support.
Nov 25th, 2019
One of Vår’s stated goals is to create local industrial ripple effects with its projects, particularly for those in the Barents Sea off northern Norway.
Vår issues offshore Norway maintenance contracts
Vår Energi awarded three-year frame agreements to Apply Sørco and Aker Solutions covering modifications and maintenance support for the oil company’s operated assets in the Norwegian sector.
Nov 25th, 2019
The Gloria platform was transported to shore on the cargo barge GSP Big Foot 2.
Romania’s oldest platform decommissioned
GSP Offshore has removed and transported the Gloria platform from the shallow-water Sinoe field in the Black Sea to Agigea harbor in Constanţa, Romania.
Nov 22nd, 2019
Rystad11221
Deepwater to propel record Gulf of Mexico oil production
Despite massive cuts in investment the US Gulf of Mexico is set for another year of record oil production in 2020, according to Rystad Energy.
Nov 22nd, 2019
The Magnus oil field is in the UK northern North Sea.
Compressor, tank concerns halt operations at North Sea platforms
EnQuest has issued updates on measures it is taking to sustain production from its UK North Sea fields.
Nov 21st, 2019
Energean114
Energean ties up further gas sale from Karish/Tanin
Energean has agreed to supply around 0.5 bcm/yr of gas from the Karish/Tanin fields offshore Israel to MRC Alon Tavor over a 15-year period.
Nov 21st, 2019
ADNOC will apply Honeywell Forge Asset Monitor and Predictive Analytics solutions at its Panorama Digital Command Center at its headquarters in Abu Dhabi.
Honeywell to provide digital services to ADNOC equipment
ADNOC has formed a 10-year predictive maintenance partnership agreement with Honeywell.
Nov 21st, 2019
Websiteimage Sunset
CNOOC brings Caofeidian 11-6 onstream
CNOOC Ltd. has started production from the Caofeidian 11-1/11-6 oilfield comprehensive adjustment project in the Bohai area offshore China.
Nov 20th, 2019