North Sea oil news

Wood Group has received a contract to support Shell in the decommissioning of the Brent Bravo platform in the North Sea.

Leading global deck machinery specialist, ACE Winches has successfully mobilised a 6 point mooring system to anchor the Iron Lady Barge being used on the Brent decommissioning project.

Engineering firm buoyant after £600 000 of new contract wins.

Analysis from a leading international E&P company has shown that UAV inspection is twenty times faster and half the cost of traditional inspection methods.

According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s new calculations, the undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Barents Sea are twice as large as previously assumed.

Statoil is the operator for production licence 532 in the Barents Sea and has received consent to drill exploration well 7219/9-2 in a prospect named Kayak.

Integrity monitoring solutions specialist North East Corrosion Engineers (NECE), part of the ICR group, has secured a significant contract for the provision of corrosion and microbial monitoring services on four North Sea assets.

Decom North Sea, the membership organisation for the oil and gas late life and decommissioning sector, has published the programme for its flagship conference and exhibition, Decom Offshore 2017.

Aker BP ASA is the operator of production licence 442 in the North Sea. Aker BP has made a discovery in a prospect named Frigg Gamma Delta, around 20 km east of the Frigg field.

Despite the low cycle that the market is facing, a total of 30 crude and natural gas projects are expected to start operations in the North Sea by 2020.