5 Jul 2016 Shell has announced plans to leave the giant legs of three offshore oil platforms in the North Sea when it completes decommissioning work. 22 Apr 2017 First up on the list of impressive giants of the seas is the Norwegian oil rig known as the Draugen platform - located 150km north of Kristiansund  9 Sep 2017 Tax revenues from North Sea oil, which since the 1970s add up to the 24,200- tonne topside of the first platform to go in the Brent field, which 

10 Aug 2015 The standards and rules for decommissioning offshore oil rigs are firmly established in the North Sea. When an oil platform is no longer  25 Aug 2016 One person dies and two are injured after a massive wave hit a Chinese-owned oil rig off Norway, while a barge breaks its anchor during Storm  5 October 2010 The cost of dismantling North Sea oil and gas platforms is forecast to reach £19bn over the next 30 years. A new report by industry specialists  In terms of the oil industry, "North Sea oil" often refers to a larger geographical set, including areas such as the Norwegian Sea and the UK "Atlantic Margin" (west of Shetland) which are not, strictly speaking, part of the North Sea. The UK list includes facilities in the Irish Sea. Map of Oil & Gas Drilling Rigs in the North Sea. Report North Sea Oil Spills, Fracking, Health & Safety Oil & Gas Issues. Blue Dots = Oil & Gas Health or Safety Issue Reported. Oil & Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Power Plants, Renewable Energy, Refineries. An oil platform, offshore platform, or offshore drilling rig is a large structure with facilities for well drilling to explore, extract, store, and process petroleum and natural gas which lies in rock formations beneath the seabed. Many oil platforms will also contain facilities to accommodate their workforce. The tall ‘Troll A’ offshore gas platform in the north sea, owned by shell oil. with a total weight of tonnes, the structure was built using of concrete and tonnes of steel, the walls of its legs measuring over a metre thick.

3 Feb 2020 No new oil- or gas fields were discovered in the Dutch part of the North Sea last year, Financieele Dagblad reports based on figures from 

7 Nov 2019 Shell actually built the Dunlin platform, but in recent years oil majors have been selling aging North Sea fields to smaller companies, in some  18 Dec 2019 Oil platforms are some of the biggest structures in the world. platform means spending all your time in the same space, miles out to sea. Located in the North Atlantic, 315km (196 miles) east of Newfoundland, Canada, the  2 Aug 2019 measured CH4 mole fractions around eight oil and gas production platforms in the North Sea which were neither flaring gas nor offloading oil  The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 when 167 men died. Oil production has slowed in the past decade but new discoveries are   6 Sep 2019 Britain's neighbours declare plan to abandon oil rigs in the North Sea 'grotesque'. Parts of three drilling platforms could be left behind by oil  24 Aug 2019 pilot project in the North Sea. oil platforms north sea (map). In the near future, 600 oil/gas platforms in the Northsea will be unemployed  8 Aug 2019 North Sea oil and gas rigs could be modified to pump vast quantities of carbon dioxide emissions into rocks below the seabed, research shows.

Decommissioning North Sea platforms: should we let sleeping giants lie? Share With massive decommissioning costs on the horizon in the UK North Sea, University of Aberdeen academic Tom Baxter has argued that there is no reason to actually remove offshore oil platforms.

This list of oil and gas fields of the North Sea contains links to oil and natural gas reservoirs beneath the North Sea. In terms of the oil industry, "North Sea oil"  As of January 2015, the North Sea was the world's most active offshore drilling region with 173 active rigs drilling. By May 2016, the North Sea oil and gas industry 

The Forties Oil Field is the largest oil field in the UK sector of the North Sea, 110 miles east of Aberdeen. It was discovered in 1970 and first produced oil in 1975 under ownership of British Petroleum, now called BP .

4 Sep 2019 Thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste including crude oil could be abandoned in decaying North Sea rigs by Shell with the permission of  DOF wins contracts for three platform suppliers. Norwegian supply shipping company DOF has been awarded new work for three of its platform read more >  10 Mar 2016 Statfjord, one of the North Sea's oldest oil fields, was discovered in 1974 by Mobil Exploration Norway and started producing in 1979 but was  Most of the platforms are located on the central part of the Dutch Continental Shelf. North Sea drilling rig. Spatial Planning on the North Sea. The use  North Sea. Maersk Drilling has more than 45 years' experience operating in the which is considered one of the harshest and most challenging areas to drill offshore. Our drilling rigs and operating base setup cover the UK, Denmark and   2 Jul 2019 The jackup Maersk Resilient will drill the Harvey appraisal well in the UK southern North Sea. Maersk Drilling. Offshore staff. LONDON – 

25 Aug 2016 One person dies and two are injured after a massive wave hit a Chinese-owned oil rig off Norway, while a barge breaks its anchor during Storm 

The decommissioning of offshore oil and gas installations and pipelines on the United Subsea wells will be plugged and abandoned using a drilling rig. Ensign Field Installation and Pipelines, Spirit Energy North Sea Limited, Draft  8 Jun 2016 Mal Hunter, who works on the Kittiwake platform east of Aberdeen, says: “We hear about platforms getting shut down, never to produce again and  Learn more about offshore drilling and finding oil in the midst of rough seas. Gallery Offshore oil platform 'Gullfaks C' stands up to a fierce, North Sea storm. 13 Apr 2017 As many North Sea oil and gas fields are now coming to the end of their productive lives, the industry is facing the massive, expensive and  Oil from all these fields is processed onboard the two platforms and exported to the Sullom Voe Terminal on the Shetland Islands via the Ninian Pipeline System. In 

Petroleum activities on the Norwegian shelf started in the North Sea and have Oil and gas from fields in this area are transported by ship or pipeline to  They were in need of a surveillance and tracking system to increase the safety of helicopters flying to oil and gas platforms in the area and also for other operations  8 Nov 2019 A North Sea oil rig was subject to huge waves smashing against it as a storm brought bad weather off the coast of Scotland on October 29. As an example, the offshore oil platforms in Saudi Arabia operate 1742 ESPs, An explosion and fire on this North Sea oil platform in July 1988 caused the  Located halfway between the United Kingdom and Norway, the Ekofisk is the most highly developed of the oil fields of the North Sea. Approximately two dozen   3 Feb 2020 No new oil- or gas fields were discovered in the Dutch part of the North Sea last year, Financieele Dagblad reports based on figures from  23 Dec 2019 Off-shore workers in North Sea oil rigs like the Cygnus oil platform, run by Neptune energy, have talked about spending Christmas at sea.