North Sea oil news

The harsh environment jack-up rig Maersk Resolute will be employed to plug and abandon a total of 31 wells in the Dutch sector of the North Sea.

Based on preliminary estimates the size of the discovery is between 25-50 million bbl of recoverable oil equivalent.

Gas production will be doubled from the Duva field in the North Sea, enabling an increase of 6500 boe/d from the first half of April.

The transaction includes the undeveloped Cambo and Rosebank fields in the UK North Sea.

A Wood Mackenzie report examines the levers the North Sea can pull to increase production and argues indigenous oil and gas still has a major role to play.

The offshore works saw the recovery of 135 concrete mattresses, more than 12 km of rigid pipelines, 15.5 km of flexibles, and around 1500 grout bags.

The agreement, the first well services contract between the companies, includes well integrity remediation services and SCP mitigation.

Oil Plus will develop and deliver a proactive topsides maintenance resilience and equipment reliability programme for the unnamed operator.

The end user, a major operator, will deploy Oceanic Environmental Control Fluid in a field in the North Sea.

The key assets being acquired include non-operated interests of 20% in the Greater Catcher Area, 50% in the Scolty and Crathes fields as well as 21.83% in the Scott and 1.59% in the Telford licences.