North Sea oil news

Premier Oil has received the requisite level of support from each class of its creditors for its proposed merger with Chrysaor Holdings Limited.

Dolphin Drilling has secured a new combined contract with Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO Norge AS.

Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 0.5 and 1.6 million m3 of recoverable oil equivalent.

The November/December issue of Oilfield Technology begins by reviewing the state of the North Sea. The issue then moves on to cover Drilling Technologies, Deepwater Operations, Flow Control, and more.

Wintershall Dea has begun drilling the first of six wells on the operated Nova field in the Norwegian North Sea.

OGUK’s Workforce Insight report 2020 has shown that the number of workers on offshore oil and gas installations decreased by around 4000 as the UK went into lockdown in March this year.

BP, Eni, Equinor, National Grid, Shell and Total have formed a new partnership, the Northern Endurance Partnership, to develop offshore carbon dioxide transport and storage infrastructure in the UK North Sea.

THREE60 ENERGY has won a multi-million pound contract to deliver duty holder services for DNO’s two assets in the UK Continental Shelf.

Well 7018/5-1 will be drilled from the West Hercules drilling facility.

Archer has secured a two-year contract extension with a major North Sea operator.