UK/UKCS
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March 23, 2017
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) is to award 25 licenses for 111 blocks or part blocks to 17 companies in the 29th Offshore Licensing Round to enable further exploration and production across frontier areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
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March 17, 2017
BP Plc is in talks with Ineos AG to sell the Forties pipeline, one of the most important pieces of oil infrastructure in the UK North Sea.
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March 15, 2017
Amec Foster Wheeler announced today that it has been awarded a contract extension by Centrica for its Morecambe Bay onshore and offshore gas production assets. The Engineering, Construction and Project Support (ECAPS) contract includes work for operations and maintenance, minor modifications and projects.
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March 13, 2017
Weir Flow Control has announced a major valve order of strategic importance for Maersk Oil. The multi-million-Euro deal comprises 132 Sarasin-RSBD special service pressure relief valves, together with 130 purpose-designed Blakeborough control and choke valves.
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March 10, 2017
SIMMONS EDECO, a supplier of wellhead and valve maintenance, asset integrity solutions and onshore drilling services to the global oil and gas industry, announced that it has entered into a framework agreement with EDF Energy to maintain its gas storage facilities in Cheshire, England.
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March 08, 2017
The prognosis for Centrica Plc’s business of storing natural gas is getting worse.
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March 07, 2017
UK oil and gas production will continue to grow through 2018, putting it on course for the longest expansion in almost two decades, amid project startups and productivity gains, an industry lobby said.
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February 23, 2017
Sparrows Group has secured a five-year contract to deliver hydraulic, lifting and rigging services for Maersk Oil’s UK floating assets.
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February 22, 2017
iSURVEY has secured a non-exclusive call-off contract with Shell UK, Shell NAM, Norske Shell and Shell E&P Ireland for the provision of rig positioning and surveying services.
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February 17, 2017
EnQuest has announced that the Kraken Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel arrived at the field on Monday, Feb. 13.
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February 15, 2017
Cygnus, located in licence areas P1055 & P1731, 150 km off the coast of Lincolnshire, is expected to contribute 5% of UK gas production – supplying sufficient gas to heat the equivalent of 1.5 million UK homes. The project added approximately £1.3 billion to the UK economy and supported nearly 5,000 jobs during its five-year development period.
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February 15, 2017
The Energy Industries Council (EIC), a trade association for UK companies that supply goods and services to the energy industries worldwide, officially launches its UK Energy Supply Chain: How to thrive and survive initiative today.
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February 13, 2017
Weatherford International plc announced today that its Secure Drilling Services facility in Aberdeen, Scotland, received API Specification Q2 certification — making it the first API Q2-certified facility in the United Kingdom.
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February 08, 2017
Getech, providers of natural resources exploration data and information expertise, has been awarded a contract by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), in collaboration with the 21CXRM Technical Advisory Committee, for a petroleum system-related study of the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) South West Approaches region.
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February 08, 2017
An extended 60-day public consultation on recommendations to decommission the Brent oil and gas field in the North Sea has begun following submission by Shell UK Limited (“Shell”), the field’s operator, of a comprehensive decommissioning program to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
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February 08, 2017
Almost a year after the first liquefied natural gas cargo left the Gulf of Mexico, the UK is still waiting to claim a slice of American supply.
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February 06, 2017
Europa Oil & Gas has announced that is wholly owned subsidiary has signed a farmout agreement (FOA)—in relation to a 12.5% interest in the PEDL143 licence, in the Weald basin—with a wholly owned subsidiary of Angus Energy.
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February 02, 2017
British subsea companies are expecting to increase overseas activity in the next 12 months, according to a survey conducted by industry body, Subsea UK.
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January 24, 2017
BP today announced it has agreed to sell part of its interests in the Magnus oil field and some associated pipeline infrastructure in the UK northern North Sea and in the Sullom Voe Terminal (SVT) on Shetland to EnQuest.
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January 18, 2017
Chevron North Sea has awarded Atkins a three-year framework contract for structural integrity services across selected fixed and floating platforms in the UK North Sea.
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January 17, 2017
Activity was low on the UKCS in 2016 as companies were in full survival mode during the oil price downturn and added Brexit uncertainty. However, there was a change of pace towards the end of the year, with the rise in oil price and larger deals signalling a return of confidence.
