In celebration of Energy 2050 – Securing Our Future Energy Voice asked companies to describe in just a few words what the North Sea oil and gas industry means to them. This one-minute video was put together with the help of staff working across the sector in the run-up to Offshore Europe.
Statoil successfully installed its largest jacket ever onto the North Sea's seabed. Watch the video to find out more about the fantastic engineering feat.
Lundin Petroleum has moved the offshore installation jacket and topside into place on its Edvard Grieg field. This video shows the installation jacket as it is moved into waters offshore Norway.
Energy Voice editor Rita Brown sat down with Maersk Oil chief executive Jakob Thomasen to discuss how the HPHT Cluster Area Allowance helped the firm invest $4.5billion in its North Sea Culzean field, if the government has learned from its 2011 ‘tax grab’ and if any of the 200 jobs at risk with Janice could be saved with the new development.
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Statoil's mammoth Mariner jacket has left its base in Spain.
ABB has reached an important milestone after installing the DolWin beta which is said to be the world’s most powerful offshore converter station in the North Sea. The 320-kilovolt converter station is housed on an offshore platform and has 916 megawatts (MW) power transmission capacity. It has enough energy to power more than 1million households with clean energy.
Energy Voice editor Rita Brown flew out with the UK Energy Minster, BP and the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) to visit one of the oil major’s cornerstone assets. It follows our exclusive report on how the company is set to invest $1billion into its Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) as part of a special life extension scheme.
Work is well underway on Chevron's Wheatstone Project. One of Australia's largest resource projects, it will also be the country's first natural gas hub.
Scottish sand control specialist Darcy has seen its patented down-hole screening technology achieve an industry first following a successful trial with energy giant Statoil.
Statoil is using military technology to detect hydrocarbon leaks at its Eagle Ford operations.
Statoil’s largest ever jacket project is one step closer to completion.
This short clip shows the topside being installed on BP's £4.5million North Sea Clair Ridge project. The footage comes after the oil major revealed three huge topside modules had been installed on the "quarters and utilties" (QU) platform following their long journey from a shipyard in South Korea. BP and its project partners - ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Shell - aim to produce 640million barrels of oil over 40 years from the field.
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Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and republican candidate for the US presidency, has told a group of voters he would favour ending government subsidies for all forms of energy. Bush said this would include oil and gas if he makes it to the White House next year. This video, which was posted online by environmental group 350 Action, shows the brother of former President George W. Bush saying that if he was elected, he would "phase out, through tax reform, the tax credits for wind, for solar, for the oil and gas sector, for all that stuff".
A topside has set sail on a journey to the largest new gas field to be discovered in the southern North Sea for 25 years. The Cygnus accommodation module, which weighs 4,600 tonnes, has left the Burntisland Fabrication’s Methil yard towards its final destination off the Lincolnshire coast. Gas is expected to start flowing from the Cygnus field later this year. The field is expected to meet the needs of 1.5million homes and will be the UK’s second largest production site of natural gas.
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Lundin Petroleum has completed installation of the topside modules on the Edvard Greig field. The company said four modules had to be lifted into place on the pre-installed jacket – the main deck frame, utility and living quarters module and the processing modules and the flare boom with a total weight of 22,000 tonnes. Heerema’s heavy lift vessel Thialf carried out the lift operation.
The full-scale of Shell's incredible Prelude FLNG project has begun to take shape as the last of the topside modules have been moved into place. The oil giant has captured footage of the moment the module was safely installed.
This time-lapse footage shows the second module of the Gina Krog living quarter being lifted into place. It was built by Aluship in Poland and was placed onto the first module, which was built at Apply Leirvik in Norway.
Statoil has installed the steel jacket for the Gina Krog platform in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. This stunning footage shows the jacket, which weighs more than 17,000 tonnes. Weighing more than twice the steel weight of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, it has now been secured into the seabed.
The Chancellor's first all-Tory Budget delivered "no real surprises" for the North Sea oil and gas industry, according to a leading tax expert. Richard Britten joined the Energy Voice team at its offices to watch the Budget live in the newsroom. The Government reinforced its previous pledges to reduce the North Sea’s supplementary tax charge from 30% to 20%.
The managing director of Craig Group has called for more investment in North Sea drilling as the Chancellor George Osborne prepares to deliver the first Conservative budget in 18 years. Douglas Craig was speaking at North Star Shipping’s unveiling of the vessel Grampian Devotion. Earlier this week, the Chancellor was urged to use the budget to tackle a “recession in confidence” in the North Sea sector, which has affected the north-east economy.
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This footage commemorates the 27th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster which changed the lives of hundreds of workers and families in the North Sea oil and gas industry. Sue Jane Taylor - the artist who also created the iconic memorial to those who lost their lives which now stands in Aberdeen - was behind the video which looks at what's still being done to improve workplace safety today. On July 6, 1988 167 men lost their lives following an explosion on the platform - which left only 61 survivors.