UK North Sea sees chance for political reprieve in energy crisis
Six months ago, UK North Sea oil and gas faced the bleakest outlook in its 50-year history.
Six months ago, UK North Sea oil and gas faced the bleakest outlook in its 50-year history.
A roster of North Sea players has been brought together to begin pre-front end engineering and design studies (pre-FEED) for the Marigold field, which will be developed via Repsol Sinopec’s Piper Bravo platform.
Jose Luis Muñoz talks to Energy Voice on Repsol Sinopec Resources UK ramping up decommissioning, the challenges of “chronic underinvestment” in the sector, and the firm’s $1 billion near-term plan for North Sea projects.
Legal discussions over the Crown field continue, following the termination of the licence by Hibiscus Petroleum in September.
The Piper Bravo platform is being moved ahead as the preferred option to develop a joint Hibiscus and Ithaca Energy project in the North Sea.
The government will reportedly aim to fast-track approvals of key oil and gas fields this year, as the Chancellor pushes for continued North Sea investment.
A total of 20 FPSO awards are expected to be made in 2021 and 2022, bringing a boost to fabrication yards, according ot new analysis from Rystad Energy.
Malaysian oil firm Hibiscus Petroleum and Ithaca Energy, of Aberdeen, have agreed to jointly develop a pair of North Sea discoveries.
Ithaca Energy sank to losses of £400million in 2020 but the firm is eyeing extra barrels from a pair of North Sea prospects.
Malaysian operator Hibiscus Petroleum has picked Worley to provide engineering and design services for its Marigold project in the UK North Sea.
Malaysian operator Hibiscus Petroleum and Ithaca Energy expect to decide whether they can jointly develop a pair of North Sea fields by the end of this week.
Hibiscus Petroleum has said it has now entered into “exclusivity arrangements” on an FPSO for its Marigold project in the North Sea.
Anasuria Hibiscus is planning to sanction its Marigold development in the North Sea around March next year.
Anasuria Operating Company has appointed Peter Kavanagh, a former North Sea boss at Petrofac in Aberdeen, as its new chief operating officer.
Dana Petroleum is going back out to its supply chain for help plotting the way ahead for a UK North Sea development project.
Hibiscus Petroleum plans to move ahead with its Marigold project in the UK North Sea next year, with safeguards against delays around Covid-19.
Maintenance on its main production vessel and a drop in the oil price more than halved profits at Malaysia’s Anasuria Hibiscus.
Malaysian firm Hibiscus Petroleum has opted to use a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) to develop a number of assets in the UK North Sea.
Malaysian oil firm Hibiscus Petroleum said today that it expects to have a field development plan in place for two UK North Sea blocks by the end of this year.