Tulip Oil Netherlands Offshore BV has awarded Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) contract for the Q10-A unmanned offshore platform. Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven, CEO of Heerema Fabrication Group, stated, “We are very pleased with this award from Tulip Oil,…
Iceland’s hope of finding oil offshore its coast is fading after China and Norway decided to back out of the island nation’s only remaining exploration licence. Cnooc Ltd, China’s state-controlled producer, and Petoro AS, Norway’s state-owned oil company, have decided to relinquish their interest…
Libya’s state energy producer National Oil Corporation has announced the restart of production at Wintershall’s Sara oil fields more than two months after they were closed by protests, in the latest sign that the OPEC nation’s oil industry may be stabilising. The fields will…
Rapidly evolving climate policies and technological breakthroughs appear likely to have the biggest impacts in Canada’s energy future, forecasters from that country’s National Energy Board suggested on the 23rd January. “Obviously, economic growth will be a key energy demand determinant. But demand will depend…
Keeping pace with the development of onshore renewable energy technology. Dennis Culligan discusses this. Dennis Culligan of risk, insurance and claims management company Longdown|EIC Risk Consulting Ltd believes a full understanding of the onshore energy sector and its risks will be vital if insurers are…
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has signed an agreement with Premier Oil to study the feasibility of using the PB3 PowerBuoy for decommissioning operations in the North Sea. Ocean Power said on the 22nd January that work under the three-month contract would determine the viability…
The Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found two non-conformities and six improvement points during an audit of the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup project. The PSA said on the 23rd January that it conducted the audit from the 8th to the…
A consortium of BP and Kosmos Energy has won exploration rights to two offshore oil blocks in São Tomé and Príncipe’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the national oil agency said. The two companies won blocks 10 and 13 in a restricted tender, the agency’s…
North Africa focused oil and gas company, SDX Energy Inc, has made a gas discovery at its ONZ-7 development well, located on the Sebou permit in Morocco. Drilled to a total depth of 1,167 metres, the ONZ-7 well encountered five metres of net conventional…
Chevron-operated Erskine field in the UK North Sea is currently unable to produce due to an issue with a pipeline. The Erskine Field lies approximately 150 miles (241 kilometres) east of Aberdeen, in water depths of about 296 feet (90 metres). It is operated…
