North Sea oil news

Hurricane Energy has been given further time by the Oil and Gas Authority to carry out work in the Lincoln subarea of Licence P1368 in the UK North Sea.

Petrofac will provide well operator, well engineering and project management services to decommission four wells within the Rubie and Renee fields, 200 km north east of Aberdeen.

The Skogul field is located in the immediate vicinity of the Vilje field, in which PGNiG Upstream Norway has a 24.24% share.

The Rowan Norway mobile facility will be used for the plugging and abandonment of six wells in the Ekofisk field.

The rig time was reduced from seven days on a conventionally drilled well to four days using Neodrill's CAN technology.

The Archer Topaz modular rig has been contracted by TAQA to perform a 21-well plug and abandonment campaign for their Northern North Sea Cormorant Alpha platform.

Oil production in April was 1.9% higher than the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s forecast.

Maersk Supply Service will remove four 30 in. jacket-mounted drilling conductors and two associated conductor guide frames using an I-class vessel.

Previous deal partner Petrogas is no longer part of the transaction.

Licence P2170 is located in the Greater Buchan Area in the North Sea.