Month: November 2021

Baker Hughes has been working alongside AGR Well Management, COSL Drilling Europe AS, Subsea 7 and Worley as part of a supply chain alliance to deliver CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited’s (CPEL) Buzzard Phase II (BPII) development, which commenced production on Sunday November 21, 2021. Located about 100 kilometres (km) northeast of Aberdeen in approximately 96 …

Supply Chain Alliance Supports Buzzard Phase II Achieve First Oil Read More »

In Australia, Expro has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract for the abandonment of 18 subsea wells and the removal of open water production trees. The project will require Expro to deliver an integrated subsea solution, including its industry-leading Intervention Riser System (IRS), to access the wells and undertake plug and abandonment work. Also in …

Leader in the subsea well access space Expro signs four major subsea well access contracts in Australia and Malaysia Read More »

bp today confirmed it is planning a new large-scale green hydrogen production facility in the North East of England that could deliver up to 500Mwe (megawatt electrical input) of hydrogen production ‎by 2030. To be developed in multiple stages, HyGreen Teesside is expected to match production to demand ‎and build on experience to drive down …

bp plans major green hydrogen project in Teesside Read More »

Part-turn intelligent electric actuators from Rotork have been installed in several gas pressure reducing stations in Belgium to provide reliable flow control without the release of undesirable greenhouse gas emissions. Rotork has a long-standing history with Fluxys Belgium, which operates 4,000 kilometres of pipeline, a liquefied natural gas terminal and an underground storage facility in …

Rotork assist Belgian gas transmission system operator with reduction of undesirable greenhouse gas emissions Read More »

Neptune Energy and its joint venture partners, BP and JAPEX, have completed the safe and successful installation of the manifold and umbilical for the Seagull project in the UK Central North Sea. TechnipFMC, working under the Neptune Energy Alliance Agreement, undertook the construction activities on the development from the CSV Deep Star vessel. The activities …

Neptune Energy completes Seagull manifold installation Read More »

Exploration and production of oil and gas from the North Sea is still needed if the UK is to meet its energy needs, while ensuring a successful energy transition to net zero, the Chairman of the Oil and Gas Authority, Tim Eggar, has said today. Speaking to delegates at the combined PROSPEX and PETEX conference …

OGA Chairman Tim Eggar insists continuing North Sea exploration is vital Read More »

The agreement for phase C of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm follows an announcement in 2020 that SEEL would offtake 480 MW generated from phases A & B. Combined, the agreements represent 20% of the Dogger Bank’s anticipated generation capacity of 3,600 MW. “Offshore wind is playing an increasingly important role in supplying the UK …

Shell signs new power deal with world’s largest offshore wind farm Read More »

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE: HLX), an international offshore energy services company headquartered in Houston, Texas, has been awarded a 5-well complete abandonment project by New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE), to be performed by the Helix Q7000 and 10K Intervention Riser System (IRS). The contract with MBIE is the second …

Helix Energy Solutions Awarded 5-Well Complete Abandonment Contract Offshore New Zealand Read More »

An estimated 1.2 million tonnes of disused oil and gas installations ranging from massive rigs to the well heads that sit on the seabed in hundreds of metres of water, are to be brought to shore for reuse, recycling and disposal in the coming decade, says a new industry report. Decommissioning Insight 2021, published by …

A decade of decommissioning: UK offshore industry to spend £16.6 billion recovering disused oil and gas installations from the North Sea Read More »

Neste is entering into execution phase with its partners in the MultiPLHY consortium. The MultiPLHY project aims at installing, integrating and operating the world’s first high-temperature electrolyser system in multi-megawatt-scale (~2.4 MW) at Neste’s renewable products refinery in Rotterdam to demonstrate production of green hydrogen for the refinery’s processes. The technology of the high-temperature electrolyzer …

Neste proceeds into execution phase aiming to demonstrate production of green hydrogen Read More »