Management
The North Sea Transition Authority’s latest UKCS Technology Survey highlights emerging trends in innovation and deployment priorities across 46 operators. The 2025 data set offers a basinwide snapshot of how cutting-edge technologies are advancing efficiency, integrity, and net-zero performance in the UK North Sea.
The contract will cover the design and manufacturing of tree systems, flexible flowlines, a manifold, and controls, as well as installation of the subsea production system.
The Essington-1 well is the first discovery in the Otway since 2021.
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The pact, which builds on the firms’ current partnership on the Buckskin project, covers four Keathley Canyon blocks including the Leon and Moccasin discoveries.
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In the shale oil business, cash flow is a life or death issue. For smaller players, money from investors and lenders is getting harder to find.
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Equinor has agreed to align its business model with the goals of the 2015 Paris climate accord and will review its corporate lobbying policy and the carbon intensity of its products, the company said. It will also link executive pay to climate-related targets.
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The explorer has so far encountered 400 ft of reservoir pay zone in an area where it has three other producing fields.
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Keen on Anadarko for a while, Occidental Petroleum is ready to do battle with Chevron for the big independent.
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Safety depends on developing a dedicated culture mind-set and mitigation of risks, from the planning and engineering phases to the work site. These papers selected by OGF technical paper editor Gerald Verbeek present various practices for reducing and eliminating the number of incidents.
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For employees to report on safety incidents, there must be a ‘just culture,’ where issues can be discussed freely and underlying causes investigated and corrected without fear of punitive actions.
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Companies in the petroleum industry, from exploration and production, to transportation, refining, and distribution, operate around the clock. This paper intends to raise awareness on the impact of fatigue in the petroleum industry and recommend a framework for fatigue risk management.
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This paper describes an operator’s experience with HFE during the construction and fabrication/installation phase of projects, including welding during the fabrication of buoyancy tanks, emergency preparedness, and the use of 3D model walk-throughs.
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The web-based interactive tool provides users specialized “ocean neighborhood analyses,” including maps and graphics by analyzing more than 100 ocean datasets instantaneously.