EnQuest have awarded Technip a large engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPCI) contract estimated to be worth between €250million and €500million for the Kraken development located in the North Sea, 400km northeast of Aberdeen and 130km east of Shetland, at a water depth of approximately 120m.

Lundin Petroleum’s subsidiary Lundin Norway has announced that drilling of exploration well 25/10-12S in PL625, in the Norwegian North Sea, has started.

Aberdeen’s Ashtead Technology launched a first-of-its-kind subsea training academy in Aberdeen in the world-renowned subsea center of excellence at Westhill.

Igor Sechin, CEO of Russian oil giant Rosneft, has said that the company will continue its Arctic drilling operation with or without ExxonMobil.

Three workers were killed and one is still missing after a fire broke out on a Socar-run platform, in the Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan, according to Reuters.

Chevron Corporation has announced a new oil discovery at the Guadalupe prospect in the deepwater US Gulf of MexicoThe Keathley Canyon Block 10 Well No.

GDF SUEZ E&P and BP have made an oil and gas discovery spanning two blocks in the in the UK Central North Sea.

Eni Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Italian oil giant Eni, is working on what they say is the world’s first center providing training for oil spill response in conditions of darkness.

Five major helicopter operators today announced a new industry association – HeliOffshore – for organizations with an interest in working together on safety in offshore helicopter transport.

Lundin Petroleum shows how the production platform for the Edvard Grieg field has moved from the drawing board to reality, and is now beginning to resemble a real offshore platform.