Dana taking steps to rectify Triton FPSO safety issues
Dana Petroleum said today that it is rectifying an issue flagged by health and safety watchdogs on the Triton FPSO.
Oil set for longest losing run since 2014 as supply fears ease
Crude’s poised for the longest losing streak since 2014 as concerns of a supply crunch eased on a forecast for rising U.S. production and waivers for eight countries allowing temporary import of Iranian oil.
Iran oil waivers: How buyers are lining up after US exemptions
Armed with waivers to keep importing Iranian oil without running afoul of U.S. sanctions, some of the Islamic Republic’s top customers are preparing to buy.
Nuclear archive building wins architecture award
The £20 million nuclear archive in Caithness has won a national architecture prize.
Sikorsky says technical issue with S92 on North Sea platform ‘isolated’
A fault which left a helicopter stuck on a North Sea platform was "isolated" to that particular aircraft, manufacturer Sikorsky has said.
WorleyParsons wins two deals with Conoco in UK North Sea
Australian energy service firm WorleyParsons has clinched two contracts to provide services for ConocoPhillips in the UK North Sea.
Peterhead CCS project ‘not ruled out’ by Shell decom plans
Shell’s plans to decommission a North Sea pipeline have not derailed a major clean energy scheme in Peterhead, organisers have insisted.
OCA and trade union talks to continue
Crunch talks between the Offshore Contractors' Association (OCA) and North Sea trade unions will continue later this month after yesterday's meeting brought no resolution.
Oil and gas must embrace carbon capture, MPs warned
Jobs in energy-intensive industries like the oil and gas sector will disappear from the UK unless technologies such as carbon capture and storage are taken forward, a leading expert has warned.
Consultancy Add Energy reels in £1.1m in new contracts
New work for major oil and gas operators, drilling companies, floating production storage and offloading operators and power generation plants has reeled in £1.1 million for Add Energy in Aberdeen.
CCS backers ‘marched to top of the hill and back down’
A prominent Labour MP has accused the UK Government of marching carbon capture and storage backers “up to the top of the hill” only to march them “back down again” in the past.
A fit new approach to decommissioning
For the uninitiated, there may not be any obvious connections between North Sea decommissioning and Crossfit – a high-intensity fitness programme – however Oil and Gas UK’s (OGUK’s) new decommissioning manager sees things differently.
New AECC to open in ‘summer 2019’
Aberdeen’s new exhibition centre will open next summer and could put the city on the map as a “cultural destination”.
New decommissioning centre to move needle on costs, tech deployment
Buoyancy systems, laser cutting tools and thermite plugs all feature in a combined effort by industry and academia to turn the north-east into the world’s leading provider of decommissioning technology.
Explorer Wellesley Petroleum in shift to operator
The team at Wellesley Petroleum can see a crossroads up ahead.
CMS: New models for old oil platforms?
Decommissioning is now a significant part of the landscape of activity in the UKCS – annual decommissioning expenditure has topped £1 billion since 2015 and may come close to £2bn when Oil and Gas UK reports its estimate for 2018 later this month.
Aberdeen harbour: In demand for decommissioning
Demand for decommissioning services in Aberdeen Harbour have been steadily growing for several years now – but in 2018 the port has been a hive of decom activity. Nearly 2,000 tonnes of material has crossed the quayside from high-profile projects, such as the Maersk Leadon and Janice, and Shell’s Brent Alpha projects. The Harbour has also accommodated materials inbound from Nexen’s Plug and Abandonment Programme.
Benchmarking and beyond with Achilles
As global economies transition away from fossil fuels towards more sustainable energy sources, the shutting down of oil and gas operations presents a huge decommissioning challenge.
Decommissioning: It’s not over until it’s over
Is decommissioning and the demise of oil and gas being heralded prematurely within the UKCS, with prospects recently announced onshore near Gatwick and west of Shetland through BP and Total? Fracking in Lancashire has been given the go ahead and it won’t be long before we see this in the central belt of Scotland, utilising Grangemouth and extending its life even further.
Iqarus: Understanding the economic impact of a diabetes diagnosis
Around 3.7 million people in the UK have been diagnosed with diabetes, a figure that has more than doubled in the last 20 years. That’s not accounting for the additional estimate of almost one million people believed to be unknowingly living with the condition because they have not yet been diagnosed.
Forum discusses how to put city on the map
The transformation of Union Terrace Gardens, a giant statue of a bull for the side of the AWPR and a New York-style “Highline” have all been mooted as ways to reinvent the region.
Looming Brexit prompts UK drop in renewables index, EY claims
The UK has dropped one place in the renewable energy attractiveness index due to Brexit, according to EY.
‘Nice little industry’ emerging in Scottish tidal sector, top analyst says
A "nice little industry" is emerging in the north of Scotland tidal energy sector, a top renewables analyst has said.
Ashtead signs ROV equipment pact with Oceaneering
Subsea equipment firm Ashtead Technology has signed a global lease pact with a subsidiary of Oceaneering.