Total has exercised its option to farm into and take operatorship of Providence Resource-operated licence offshore Ireland. The licence is located in the Southern Porcupine Basin, some 220 kilometres off the south-west coast of Ireland. It is operated by Providence with Cairn and Sosina…
US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has released an updated resource assessment for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A), the Western Beaufort Sea, adjacent State and Native lands, and State waters, which estimates the mean undiscovered, technically recoverable resources both on and offshore…
Ineos has partially re-started the Kinneil facility following the completion of the mechanical repair works on the Forties pipeline system. Earlier this week, Ineos, the operator of the pipeline, said it expected to bring the pipeline and Kinneil terminal and gas processing plant progressively…
Premier has announced that first oil from the Catcher Area was safely achieved at 15.45 hours on the 23rd December 2017. Initial stabilised production from the Catcher field will be at an expected rate of around 10,000 bpd. This will be ramped up in…
Dutch Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has secured another contract linked to Maersk Oil’s multi-billion dollar Tyra Redevelopment Project in the Danish North Sea. Maersk Oil has now awarded an additional contract to HMC for extensive offshore lifting services in the Tyra East and West…
Maersk Oil has contracted McDermott International to provide engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning services for the Tyra Redevelopment project in the Danish North Sea. Scott Munro, vice president Americas, Europe and Africa at McDermott, said: “We have had a long relationship with Maersk Oil,…
Over the last two years, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has been one of the more dynamic offshore sectors globally. Recently, this was confirmed, when the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank, issued its Global Petroleum Survey 2017. It ranks NL as the…
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Ineos revealed on the 21st December that repair work on the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) is scheduled to complete around Christmas, based on current estimates. The company expects to bring the pipeline progressively back to normal rates early in the new year and has…
Westside New Zealand Limited has been granted one 12-year offshore permit in the Taranaki Basin, offshore New Zealand. The permit PEP 60402 has an area of 547 square kilometres. The new petroleum exploration permit has been granted as part of Block Offer 2017. This was…
