North Sea oil news

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.

Aker BP ASA has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 2/8-19.

Welltec is now the largest shareholder of Isealate, and will be exclusive global partner to the innovative company based in Stavanger, Norway, providing patented patch-thru-patch technology.

Neptune Energy Norge AS, operator of production licence 153, has concluded the drilling of appraisal wells 35/9-16 S and 35/9-16 A on oil and gas discovery 35/9-3 (Hamlet).

The outcomes would enhance the UK’s energy security and would ensure that emissions from North Sea oil and gas production remain world leading.

The company has announced it will spend more than US$1 billion over the next five years securing energy supplies for the UK and speeding the transition to net zero.

The licences contain two firm wells on the Oswig and Velocette prospects anticipated to drill in the summer 2022 and 2Q23 respectively. All the licences are operated by OMV which will retain a 40% working interest post-transaction.

The companies have signed a MoU for transfer of the Krafla operatorship from Equinor to Aker BP, making Aker BP the operator of all discoveries in the NOAKA area.