Luxembourg-domiciled Subsea7 has tucked a new assignment in the UK under its belt, which will enable it to work on the development of a field that will be tied back to an existing floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel working in the North Sea.
UK-based produced water treatment specialist Adaptive Process Solutions (APS) has conducted a field trial of its microbubble infusion unit (MiFU) technology aboard a floating production, storage, and offloading installation (FPSO) vessel in the North Sea, resulting in lower oil in water (OiW) levels.
Offshore energy’s trade body is pushing back against campaign damage to its reputation and political harm to its prospects.
Unpredictable tax changes on Britain’s oil and gas production are making the industry “uninvestable” to internationally mobile finance, it is claimed.
While climate change campaigners say fossil fuel emissions are already busting temperature limits, the case for continued supply is that there will continue to be demand.
Perenco UK, a subsidiary of Perenco Group, has brought on stream a near-field discovery within the Ravenspurn South area of the Southern North Sea, boosting its gas production on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
Prices for North Sea and West African crude grades have increased this month.
The Red Sea shipping crisis and OPEC+ output cuts have tightened oil markets.
U.S. benchmark oil prices are also supported by higher demand for American crude in Europe due to the Red Sea disruption to flows.
Europe’s oil refineries are stepping up crude purchases following a surge in the price of diesel and disruptions to imported shipments from the Middle East. The situation is driving up the cost of physical barrels of oil.
The costs of decommissioning oil and gas platforms in the UK’s North Sea could overtake capital expenditure in the industry by 2040, a new report from Offshore Energies UK has suggested.
Shell is suing Greenpeace for $2.1 million in damages after the environmental group’s activists boarded the company’s oil production vessel in transit at sea this year, according to Greenpeace and a document seen by Reuters.
Recently, Norway and the UK managed to overcome certain challenges and increase investments heavily into the energy sector, especially in the North Sea region.
he UK government has announced plans to allow a big expansion of drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea in a move that environmental activists have described as a taking a “wrecking ball” to the country’s climate commitments.