UK/UKCS

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December 20, 2024
READ (including subsidiaries READ Cased Hole and ANSA) has announced a new chapter in their corporate evolution within global well-integrity services and solutions.
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December 19, 2024
Expro has won a contract valued at over $10 million for the provision of a well decommissioning solution. The solution combines subsea safety systems and surface processing design to enable both safe well entry and effective fluids management.
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December 19, 2024
Mermaid Subsea Services (UK) Ltd has set a new industry benchmark for North Sea decommissioning. Across the course of 2024 the Aberdeen-headquartered company successfully plugged and abandoned (P&A) 30 wells in the UK North Sea using the Island Valiant vessel.
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December 17, 2024
Elementz, a new Aberdeen-based company specializing in subsea asset integrity management software, has unveiled the board of directors that will oversee its goal of achieving turnover of £2 million in year one.
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December 16, 2024
Following an announcement that the UK and Norway governments have agreed to support a new Green Industrial Partnership that will combine their capabilities on clean energy and drive economic growth, OEUK published a response.
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December 12, 2024
TechnipFMC has been given full notice to proceed with the previously announced contract for the first all-electric integrated project by the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), a joint venture between bp, Equinor, and TotalEnergies.
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December 11, 2024
Offshore Energies UK has announced that international disaster recovery specialist Lucy Easthope will provide the keynote speech at its 2025 Health, Safety and Environment Conference.
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December 10, 2024
Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) has announced development of the UK's first CCS project in partnership with TotalEnergies. NEP, in which TotalEnergies holds a 10% shareholding interest, will permanently store up to an initial 4 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
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December 05, 2024
Equinor and Shell will combine their UK offshore oil and gas assets and expertise to form a new company which will be the UK North Sea’s biggest independent producer, the companies’ UK subsidiaries have announced.
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December 04, 2024
OEG Energy Group has moved into a new global HQ in Dyce, Aberdeen, following a seven-figure sum investment in a multi-year lease. This marks a significant milestone in the organization’s 50-year journey, serving as a launch for its global expansion goals.
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December 04, 2024
Kent has secured a three-year global Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management (EPCm) framework contract by bp (P&O Projects). The framework covers the full scope of EPCm services, supporting bp’s asset lifecycle, from small and large projects to minor modifications.
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December 02, 2024
Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) says Scotland’s new hydrogen export strategy can build on the nation’s industrial strengths and unlock a £93 billion export opportunity if firms are now backed with a clear action plan to attract investment and talent.
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November 25, 2024
(Bloomberg) - The U.K. government expanded its sanctions against Russia’s energy industry on Monday, blacklisting dozens of tankers responsible for moving the nation’s oil as well as two insurers involved in the trade.
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November 22, 2024
Oil States has introduced an industry-first Low Impact Workover Package (LIWP). The LIWP is engineered to empower operators to safely and cost-effectively plug and abandon aging subsea wells while minimizing wellhead loads and streamlining operations.
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November 18, 2024
Paradigm has announced an expanded Aberdeen facility which will house its growing workforce and asset base, enabling it to deploy technologies that lower the carbon impact and cost of traditional oil and gas exploration and production operations.
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November 13, 2024
EnerMech has won a multi-million-pound contract to become the preferred provider of Flexible Hose Assembly (FHA) and Small Bore Tubing (SMT) management services for a major E&P organization’s U.K. assets. 
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November 11, 2024
Mermaid Subsea Services has successfully completed what is believed to be the largest vessel-based U.K. North Sea decommissioning campaign in history. The project spanned two years and involved the plugging and abandonment (P&A) of 21 wells.
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November 07, 2024
Camilla Salthe, Equinor’s Senior Vice President of Exploration & Production International UK is the latest industry leader to join the Board at Offshore Energies U.K. (OEUK) as the sector focuses on delivering homegrown, cleaner energies to the U.K.
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November 07, 2024
nexos, formerly known as Global E&C, has won an HVAC contract with energy transition operator EnQuest to provide services to their offshore assets in the U.K. Continental Shelf (UKCS).
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November 06, 2024
The latest data from this year’s OEUK Decommissioning Report being published later this month show a challenging picture of spiraling costs, political uncertainty and competition for the specialist equipment needed to dismantle oil and gas platforms and seal abandoned wells.
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October 31, 2024
(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. government went no further in toughening up the tax regime for North Sea oil and gas producers than measures already announced, keeping capital allowances in the windfall tax following protests from the industry. 
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