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SLB secures FEED contract from Equinor for electric subsea project on Fram Sør field offshore Norway
June 27, 2024
The Fram Sør solution will use SLB OneSubsea’s standard subsea tree design, upgraded with a fully electrified power, control and actuation system, while the elimination of high-pressure hydraulic systems will enable operators to go further and deeper, improving production and making even marginal fields more viable.
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June 25, 2024
The agreement’s scope is to deliver human resources solutions for Repsol’s multi-disciplinary resourcing needs in areas such as drilling and wells, geology and subsurface, HSE, logistics, operations, maintenance, decommissioning, administrative support and cost control.
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June 25, 2024
This SURF EPCI contract includes a substantial fabrication scope and offshore work over three years, with the first campaign beginning in 2025. Ocean Installer has also secured a separate contract for replacing a 4 km, 10” flexible flowline at the Troll B field in 2025.
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June 24, 2024
In March 2024, Equinor and DNO delineated the Heisenberg discovery, estimating recoverable volumes of 24 to 56 MMboe. They plan to drill a new well in the second quarter of 2024 to explore the Angel prospect and further delineate Heisenberg.
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June 24, 2024
The Atlantis field was discovered in 2020. Its total recoverable reserves are estimated at 65 Mmboe, with upside potential. This puts Atlantis among the largest offshore discoveries made on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in the last decade.
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June 20, 2024
Changes in the tax regime, in particular a windfall levy on oil and gas introduced two years ago and extended until March 2029, has affected independent oil and gas producers listed in the UK and their ability to raise money.
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June 20, 2024
This well is the first in production license 1170, awarded in 2022 (APA 2021), and was drilled by the Scarabeo 8 rig. The estimated size of the discovery ranges between 3.3 – 4.7 MMboe.
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June 20, 2024
Units of Wintershall Dea AG, INEOS Group, Equinor ASA and Orsted AS are among the companies that were granted rights to explore whether the Danish subsoil is suitable for commercial CO2 storage and establish whether the process can be done safely and securely, the Danish Energy Agency said Thursday.
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June 19, 2024
Preliminary evaluation of the offshore gas condensate discovery indicates gross recoverable resources in the range of 16-38 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe) with a mean of 25 MMboe, well above predrill estimates. Just over half of the resources were encountered in the Middle Jurassic primary target, and the balance in the Upper Jurassic secondary target.
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June 18, 2024
The country’s current daily production of about 1.2 MMboed is projected to drop to 0.7 MMboed in 2030 by industry regulator the North Sea Transition Authority. “Getting things right” and moving forward all investment opportunities currently under consideration by companies would temper that decline, meaning production in 2030 would be 0.9 MMboed, OEUK said in its Economy and People report on Tuesday.
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June 16, 2024
The contract scope includes project management, engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of a 22km 12” water injection pipeline. Subsea7’s scope also includes associated subsea structures and tie-ins at the Triton Floating Production Storage & Offloading (FPSO) vessel and the Bittern field.
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June 11, 2024
Deltic considers it “unlikely” that Selene will require further appraisal prior to field development planning commencing and could be brought into production “relatively quickly” following discovery given the proximity of existing infrastructure.
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Emerson to deploy completion monitoring systems for Equinor’s Rosebank oil and gas field offshore UK
June 06, 2024
Emerson’s suite of Roxar downhole monitoring tools will empower Equinor to use advanced oil recovery techniques, optimize reservoir performance and verify well integrity in real time. The Rosebank field is estimated to contain over 300 MMbbl of recoverable oil resources.
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June 05, 2024
The comprehensive campaign spans over 120 days and is segmented into five sub-campaigns, each addressing specific tasks crucial for the decommissioning process.
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June 05, 2024
Buzzard reached peak production of 80,000 boed after its phase II started production in 2022. Today it’s closer to half that level of output. The field was shut from April 27 for 12 days of planned maintenance. There is another planned turnaround in late August for about 14 days.
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June 04, 2024
Eirin is a gas field located 250 km west of Stavanger. The field will be developed as a subsea facility that will be adapted and prepared as a tie-in point for future discoveries in the area that can be expanded with new wells.
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May 30, 2024
Stable, long-term policies that enable fair returns are critical to ensure UK firms and their people can compete in the global race for energy investment. OEUK says over £200 billion can be unlocked and ploughed into our energy future this decade, but only if firms, skilled people and capital stay here in the UK.
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May 30, 2024
This deal involves the Clipper and Leman Alpha offshore field clusters and represents the latest move by major oil and gas companies to exit the aging North Sea basin in favor of more lucrative ventures.
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May 28, 2024
Spending on oil and gas extraction and pipeline transport will jump by 15% in 2024, compared with the 215 billion kroner spent a year earlier, Statistics Norway said on Tuesday. Spending in 2025 is forecast to be 216 billion kroner, the agency said.
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Subsea7 secures offshore contract for Belinda field’s Trion FPSO from Serica Energy for $150 million
May 27, 2024
The contract scope includes project management, engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of a 5-kilometre 8” production pipeline with a 3” piggy-backed gas lift line and an electro-hydraulic controls (EHC) umbilical.
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May 26, 2024
To accelerate field delivery of the subsea tieback to existing infrastructure, SLB OneSubsea will leverage configurable solutions compliant with NCS2017+ for standardized subsea production systems for application in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The objective for Troll Phase 3, Stage 2 is to accelerate production from the reservoir equivalent to about 55 Bcmg.
