North Sea oil news

The Subsea Inspection Services will support underwater inspections of subsea pipelines, assets and facilities to energy companies operating offshore.

Chrysaor Holdings Limited, the UK oil and gas independent, is to acquire a package of assets in the UK North Sea from Shell UK Limited and its affiliates for a price of US$3.0 billion.

Lundin has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 16/1-27 on the Edvard Grieg field.

A new on-demand wireless ribbon lighting system has been launched following a collaboration between award-winning Scottish technology companies WFS Technologies Ltd and PhotoSynergy Ltd (PSL).

Subsea 7 has won the award of a subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) contract by Maersk Oil. (Image: Maersk).

Statoil is the operator of the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea, west of Mo i Rana in Nordland county. The field has been developed using a floating production and storage unit, tied to the well templates on the seabed. Water depth at the Norne field is 380 m.

With UK subsea exports valued at almost £5 billion, Subsea UK is encouraging British firms to set their sights on international expansion to sustain long term growth.

Global science-based technology company, 3M has completed a global oil and gas industry first by deploying its Ceramic Sand Screens using a light well intervention vessel instead of a full rig.

PGNiG has obtained interests in two more exploratory and production licenses in the Norwegian Sea as well its first production license in Pakistan.

Enpro Subsea has announced a research and development grant from Scottish Enterprise which will see the firm investing £1.5 million to develop its flow assurance technology further to address emerging markets in deeper waters.