North Sea oil news

Maersk Drilling will drill two development wells for Dana Petroleum in the Dutch sector of the North Sea in 2Q21.

The Duva field is being developed as a subsea installation with three oil producers and one gas producer, tied-back to the Gjøa semi-submersible platform.

Recoverable resources are estimated to be in the range of 2-6 million m3 of oil equivalent, corresponding to 13-38 million boe.

Wintershall Noordzee is currently finalising the hook-up activities to the D12-B production platform, from where the produced gas will be transported via the Neptune Energy-operated D15-A production platform, through the NGT gas transportation system to shore.

The contract covers the delivery of four subsea templates and up to 23 subsea trees and associated components.

Neptune Energy will remain as operator of the prospect with a 30% working interest in the licence.

Following the transaction, the PGNiG Group’s own gas production in Norway will increase to 0.9 billion m3 in 2021.

The contract covers the provision of platform drilling operations and maintenance services on Beryl Alpha and Bravo, Forties Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta in the UK North Sea.

First images from the Central North Sea survey are targeted for 1Q21.

Aker Solutions will engineer a high-voltage electrical boiler package as part of the electrification of Lundin Energy's Edvard Grieg platform.