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Emerson to deploy completion monitoring systems for Equinor’s Rosebank oil and gas field offshore UK
June 06, 2024
Emerson’s suite of Roxar downhole monitoring tools will empower Equinor to use advanced oil recovery techniques, optimize reservoir performance and verify well integrity in real time. The Rosebank field is estimated to contain over 300 MMbbl of recoverable oil resources.
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June 05, 2024
The comprehensive campaign spans over 120 days and is segmented into five sub-campaigns, each addressing specific tasks crucial for the decommissioning process.
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June 05, 2024
Buzzard reached peak production of 80,000 boed after its phase II started production in 2022. Today it’s closer to half that level of output. The field was shut from April 27 for 12 days of planned maintenance. There is another planned turnaround in late August for about 14 days.
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June 04, 2024
Eirin is a gas field located 250 km west of Stavanger. The field will be developed as a subsea facility that will be adapted and prepared as a tie-in point for future discoveries in the area that can be expanded with new wells.
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May 30, 2024
Stable, long-term policies that enable fair returns are critical to ensure UK firms and their people can compete in the global race for energy investment. OEUK says over £200 billion can be unlocked and ploughed into our energy future this decade, but only if firms, skilled people and capital stay here in the UK.
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May 30, 2024
This deal involves the Clipper and Leman Alpha offshore field clusters and represents the latest move by major oil and gas companies to exit the aging North Sea basin in favor of more lucrative ventures.
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May 28, 2024
Spending on oil and gas extraction and pipeline transport will jump by 15% in 2024, compared with the 215 billion kroner spent a year earlier, Statistics Norway said on Tuesday. Spending in 2025 is forecast to be 216 billion kroner, the agency said.
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Subsea7 secures offshore contract for Belinda field’s Trion FPSO from Serica Energy for $150 million
May 27, 2024
The contract scope includes project management, engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of a 5-kilometre 8” production pipeline with a 3” piggy-backed gas lift line and an electro-hydraulic controls (EHC) umbilical.
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May 26, 2024
To accelerate field delivery of the subsea tieback to existing infrastructure, SLB OneSubsea will leverage configurable solutions compliant with NCS2017+ for standardized subsea production systems for application in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The objective for Troll Phase 3, Stage 2 is to accelerate production from the reservoir equivalent to about 55 Bcmg.
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May 22, 2024
Equinor has exercised an option for a batch of eight wells to extend the use of the Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Aberdeen on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The exercised options are planned to start in Q4 2025. The options have a value of approximately $121 million.
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May 21, 2024
A new report by Robert Gordon University (RGU) has revealed that the UK will fail to achieve a ‘just and fair’ energy transition by 2030 unless there is urgent alignment across the political spectrum to sustain UK offshore industry jobs, supply chain investments and the economic contribution of the workforce.
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May 20, 2024
Proven and probable reserves in the Belinda field are estimated at about 5 MMbbl of oil equivalent (80% oil). Production is scheduled to commence in 1Q2026 following the tie-back work to the Triton FPSO.
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May 20, 2024
The contract covers crew change and transportation services from the Deepsea Yantai Rig to Shell’s Sola and Bergen bases. CHC will utilize an S-92 aircraft to support the rig.
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May 16, 2024
Chevron Corp. put its stake in the UK’s Clair oilfield up for sale in a move that will mark the U.S. supermajor’s exit from the North Sea after more than half a century.
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May 16, 2024
Under this arrangement, Equinor will boost its ownership in the Heidrun field and Noatun discovery, while scaling back its stakes in the Tyrihans and Castberg fields, along with the Carmen and Beta discoveries.
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May 14, 2024
In the more than two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, sending energy prices soaring, Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor has quietly picked up the crown that once belonged to Russia’s Gazprom PJSC. Norway now supplies 30% of the bloc’s gas; Gazprom provided about 35% of all Europe’s gas before the war.
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May 08, 2024
This year, the APA acreage will be expanded by a total of 37 bocks in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea. Three of the additional blocks are in the northwest of the Norwegian Sea and 34 blocks are in the east of the Barents Sea.
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May 07, 2024
SLB OneSubsea will deliver the subsea production system which will include two subsea trees, a two-slot template, an umbilical, and a control system. Subsea7 will install the subsea production system and design and install the flowline systems, spools, and protection measures, including rock installation.
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May 06, 2024
The Eldfisk North Project comprises three 6-well subsea templates approximately 7 km from the Eldfisk Complex. The total resource potential is in the range of 50-90 MMboe, while total capital expenditure is estimated at almost $1.24 billion.
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May 06, 2024
Optime Subsea's second-generation ROCS has gradually become the new industry standard for well completion operations. Because it has eliminated the need for the umbilical, which traditionally connects the surface to the seabed for controlling the tubing hanger in subsea well completions, and the associated topside hydraulic control unit.
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May 03, 2024
The North Sea Transition Authority has announced the allocation of 31 new oil and gas licenses, marking a significant step towards reinforcing energy security in the UK, says Offshore Energies UK (OEUK).
