More production from the UKCS
The “Projections of UK Oil and Gas Production and Expenditure Report” published by the OGA, expects that UK oil and gas production over the period 2016–2050 is reaching 3.9 billion…
Development and Production
Premier further develops Catcher area
In its 2018 Full Year Results, Premier Oil announces a record production of 80.5 kboepd of which 46.8 kboepd from UK assets. Highlights from Premier’s UK activities are the increase…
North Sea production is growing again
Rystad Energy has identified three key drivers for the expected production growth: production itself, breakeven prices for new projects and total spending. Production evolution The production in the North Sea…
Cara developed as Duva
Neptune Energy, together with partners Idemitsu, Wellesley Petroleum and Pandion Energy submitted their Plan for Development and Operation for Duva to the NPD. Duva’s recoverable resources are estimated to be…
Tulip Oil starts gas production in Dutch North Sea
Tulip Oil Netherlands Offshore announces the start-up and commissioning of the Q10 offshore gas development in the Dutch North Sea, only 15 months after taking the Final Investment Decision (FID).…
New production record in 2023
Bente Nyland, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s Director General, presented mostly good news from the Shelf in 2018. With great enthusiasm about the high activity she looked back at 2018 and showed…
Demands immediate production stop at Groningen
On January 17, the Dutch High Court will have a hearing to consider demands to immediately end the gas production from the Groningen field. Local and regional authorities and even…
First oil less than 8 months after discovery
Apache Corporation announced it has initiated production from its Garten development on Block 9/18a Area-W on the UKCS. The discovery well, which is located 6 kilometres south of the Beryl…
Tie-back to Oda?
In a press release Faroe Petroleum announced that operator Spirit Energy has started drilling exploration well 8/10-7S within the PL405 Oda license. The partners in PL405 licence are Spirit Energy…
First remotely operated platform
Oseberg Vestflanken 2 field in the North Sea came on stream on October 14. Recoverable resources are 110 million barrels.
UK bouncing back
The last years have demonstrated the resilience of UKCS. Both production and production efficiency have increased. It is a matter of strategy.
"We need to start now"
Equinor is planning on drilling 20-30 exploration wells annually and actively explore for gas.