Snam and Fluxys yesterday reached an agreement to acquire E.ON’s 15.09% stake in Interconnector (UK), owner and operator of the subsea pipeline between the UK (Bacton) and Belgium (Zeebrugge) providing a strategic bi-directional link between the UK and the continental gas trading places. Last January, Snam and Fluxys entered into a strategic alliance aimed at [...]
An underwater turbine that is set to be used in Scotland’s first and only consented tidal power project has successfully completed an initial testing period in Orkney, and is providing electricity for homes and businesses on the island of Eday, one of Orkney’s northern isles. The 1MW power generator was installed last December, in some [...]
Stork Technical Services, the leading global provider of knowledge-based asset integrity management services for the oil and gas, chemical and power sectors, won the ‘Associate Member’ prize at this year’s IADC North Sea Chapter (NSC) Annual Safety Awards. The award recognises an Associate members’ safety achievements over the past year which can include launching schemes [...]
A WIRRAL based environmental consultancy is to manage marine-life protection measures at one of the biggest wind farms currently in construction in Europe, after securing a £multi-million contract with Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited. CMACS Ltd will deliver a robust monitoring programme throughout the wind farm’s construction, ensuring the safety of marine mammals, [...]
Apache Corporation yesterday afternoon announced that an extension well had initial production rates higher than any oil well drilled at the Beryl Field in the U.K. North Sea since 2001. “We’re very excited about this well because we’ve found virgin reservoir pressure in two of three zones containing more than 300 feet of net true [...]
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond while speaking on Monday in Norway, referred to progress made on NorthConnect, according to the UPI news portal. The NorthConnect is a planned venture to join the British and Scandinavian electricity grids by laying a subsea cable that would act as a two-way traffic route in renewable power, exchanging Scotland’s [...]
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Aker Solutions is acquiring the mechanical workshop company Lyngdal Mek. Verksted (LMV), thereby increasing its capacity to assemble, test and overhaul drilling equipment especially for the North Sea market. This is the second recent acquisition by Aker Solutions’ drilling technologies business in its home region, following the takeover of Herman Hansen Mek. Verksted, another assembly [...]
Statoil transfers operatorship of the Vilje field in the North Sea to Marathon Oil Norge. The agreement does not involve any change of stakes in the production licence (PL 036D). “Statoil is interested in good area solutions. We therefore find it natural that Marathon, as the biggest operator in the area, gets to optimise the [...]
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French supermajor Total informed the Department of Energy and Climate Change that their dynamic kill operation to try to stop the gas release from the Elgin well began yesterday. DECC have been working closely with TOTAL and gave environmental consent to the company earlier in May to pump heavy mud into the well via a [...]
DeTect has completed the installation of the MERLIN Avian Radar System at the wind farm substation on Thornton Bank, reports Windtech International. Last year in January, the Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM) acquired the radar system to track the bird movement along the coast at Zeebrugge. After the completed monitoring at [...]
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