North Sea oil news

Kyrah McKenzie, Wood Mackenzie, UK, considers the implications of the oil price crash and coronavirus for the North Sea upstream industry.

Well 6204/11-3 will be the first exploration well to be drilled in production licence 829.

Lloyd's Register conducted a detailed technical study on behalf of the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) into potential options for decarbonising the offshore energy system.

The Oil and Gas Authority's Energy Integration Project report has found that oil and gas platform electrification is essential to cutting sector production emissions in the near term, and critical to the industry’s social licence to operate.

The company has been contracted by NEO Energy to operate the Victoria well in the southern North Sea.

The inspection was carried out in UK waters, 250 km east of Scotland, using an ROV and the company's remote operations centre in Aberdeen.

The Bressay oilfield was discovered east of Shetland in 1976 and Equinor became operator in 2007.

Ampelmann and Olympic Shipping are supporting topside commissioning work on Ithaca Energy’s FPF-1 offshore semi-submersible in the North Sea.

The order from Spirit Energy includes Plexus’ POS-GRIP 5000 psi leak proof “HG” metal to metal sealing surface production wellhead and associated spares and equipment for a new gas well in the UK North Sea.

Petrofac will provide Well Management and Well Operator support for 25 production wells across the Affleck, Balloch, Dumbarton, Flyndre and Lochranza fields in the North Sea.