North Sea oil news

PBS has secured an extension to the general maintenance and operations contract (GMOC) awarded by TotalEnergies in 2020 to cover its North Sea assets.

Aker has announced that production has started from Hanz in the North Sea. Hanz is operated by Aker BP, with Equinor and Sval Energy as partners.

Petrofac has been awarded a contract extension by bp, continuing support across its North Sea portfolio.

DNO ASA has announced completion of an appraisal well and sidetrack that further delineated the 2023 Heisenberg oil and gas discovery in Norwegian North Sea license PL827SB.

Viaro Energy has announce that it has received regulatory approval from the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) for the assignment in the Bressay oil field licence, following the recently completed acquisition agreement with EnQuest.

Cost-efficient decommissioning has received a significant boost with the relaunch of a bigger, better digital data dashboard providing vital information about upcoming work to potential suppliers.

Corinth Pipeworks was awarded a contract from TechnipFMC for 27 km of high frequency welded (HFW), steel pipes for the Utsira High Project development project in the North Sea.

Serica Energy has announced the completion of the acquisition by its wholly owned subsidiary, Serica Energy (UK) Limited, of 30% non-operated interests in the P2498 and P2170 licences (together the Greater Buchan Area (‘GBA’)) from Jersey Oil & Gas (‘JOG’).

Shell, Equinor, bp, Total and NEO are among the 17 separate companies which have been offered a total of 24 licences in the second tranche of the 33rd oil and gas licensing round.

Equinor was awarded 39 new production licences by the Ministry of Energy in this year's Awards in Predefined Areas (APA).