North Sea oil news

Production operations have resumed following the Aoka Mizu FPSO's scheduled annual maintenance shutdown.

The newly fabricated topsides and bridges will replace the ageing facilities at TotalEnergies' Tyra field in the Danish North Sea.

Equinor will acquire a 40% participating interest in licences PL090 JS, PL248 I and PL925, while Wellesley will acquire a 10% participating interest in licence PL942.

Fugro will employ its specialised survey technology to inspect the subsea infrastructure, including pipelines and structures, and to undertake survey activities in advance of future drilling campaigns on the Cygnus field.

The work programme is scheduled to last approximately four months and to start the process of converting approximately 100 million boe (gross) of 2C resources into 2P reserves.

ICR will provide engineered composite repairs and weldless connectors for all of Shell's UK Continental Shelf assets.

Equinor and Ardyne are jointly funding the £1 million project, which will aim to develop a well decommissioning technology that will reduce the economic and environmental impacts of slot recovery and decommissioning.

The Zennor portfolio adds circa 40 million boe of reserves and more than 90 million boe of un-risked resource in the UK Continental Shelf to NEO.

The Kobra East & Gekko field, located in the Alvheim area of the North Sea, is operated by Aker BP.

The added well intervention scope has a firm duration of 31 days, which means that the Maersk Intrepid rig is now contracted until February 2022.