North Sea oil news
Hurricane Energy achieves first lifting from Lancaster field
The company's first cargo from the Lancaster field, offshore Shetland, UK, was sold on 18 June and marketed by BP Oil International Ltd.
Aker BP granted drilling permit for well 25/2-20
The drilling programme for well 25/2-20 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 442. Aker BP ASA is the operator with an ownership interest of 90.26%.
Equinor and partners make oil and gas discovery in Norwegian Sea
The discovery was made in exploration well Snadd Outer Outer/Black Vulture in production licence 159B in the Norwegian Sea.
DeltaTek Global completes SeaCure cementing deployment for Total
DeltaTek’s SeaCure service provides stabbed-in, inner string cementing for subsea wells.
Valhall QP topside removed
The single-lift operation took 2 hours to complete from positioning the vessel Pioneering Spirit around the 3800 t platform to the moment of the lift.
CNOOC extends UKCS jack-up rig contract with Maersk Drilling
The Mærsk Innovator is now firmly contracted to continue drilling infill wells at the Buzzard field on the UK Continental Shelf until February 2020.
Equinor awards contracts for Johan Sverdrup phase II
Phase 2 of the Johan Sverdrup development was approved by Norwegian authorities in May 2019, with start-up scheduled for 4Q22.
Equinor to publish CO2 storage data from Sleipner field
Since 1996, the Sleipner field in the North Sea has been used as a facility for carbon capture and storage by Equinor as operator and a group of partnering companies.
Well-Safe Solutions secures North Sea decommissioning contract
The decommissioning project in the Schooner and Ketch fields will start immediately with a plan to commence offshore operations at the end of 2019.
Tommeliten Alpha Project passes important decision gate towards production in 2024
PGNiG Upstream Norway and its partners decided to move to the select phase of the project, during which key technical decisions regarding the field development will be made.