North Sea oil news

It is anticipated that a discovery at North Eigg would be developed utilising Serica’s nearby 98% owned and operated infrastructure on the Bruce platform. Results of the North Eigg well are expected in mid-October and will be announced by RNS.

TechnipFMC will continue to provide a wide range of engineering, studies and technical services to Neptune Energy. This includes installation work and operational support for Neptune’s development projects and producing fields.

Equinor has initiated a safe shutdown of the Gudrun, Oseberg South, and Oseberg East fields after members of the Norwegian Organisation of Managers and Executives (Lederne) trade union went on strike from midnight.

The permits, for wells off the coast of Norway, have been granted based upon the petroleum resource act paragraph 13.

This project will see the reprocessing of 3500 square km of data in the Greater Catcher Area covering quads 21, 28, and 29 of the North Sea on the margins of the UK Central Graben.

The company will use the funds for the purchase of its third rig.

Marine engineering and propulsion specialist Royston has completed the overhaul of diesel generators on board the semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit Stena Spey.

With all offshore preparation activities safely executed and successfully completed within schedule, the remaining Dunlin structure was left ready for an efficient lifting campaign by HMC’s vessel Sleipnir. More than 95% of the Dunlin Topsides will be recycled and reused at a recycling facility in Vats, Norway.

The N05-A platform will run entirely on wind energy from the nearby Riffgat wind farm, which will help to reduce the carbon footprint of the operation.

Longboat Energy, the emerging full-cycle North Sea E&P company, has announced that the Cambozola exploration well in licence PL1049 offshore Norway was dry and will now be plugged and abandoned.