North Sea oil news

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.

Operator Wintershall DEA estimates that it can recover 18 billion m3 of gas from Dvalin.

Westwood Global Energy Group has published a note giving a preliminary assessment of the deal from each company’s perspective and the outlook for the merged company and the wider North Sea M&A market.

Westwood Global Energy has published a note giving a preliminary assessment of the deal from each company’s perspective and the outlook for the merged company and the wider North Sea M&A market.