BP joins £200M biofuels project Jun 26, 2007
Supermajor BP will build a “world scale” biofuels plant in the United Kingdom with mass-produced food groups Associated British Foods and Dupont, it was announced Tuesday.

ConocoPhillips ups U.K. carbon-capture ante Jun 25, 2007
ConocoPhillips has “passed the conceptual stage” and is in the early stages of engineering studies for a large-scale carbon-capture, “regassification” and offshore carbon-storage project for the industrial northeast of England at Immingham.
By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI

ENI notches “no-show” in Norwegian Sea Jun 25, 2007
Italian oil company ENI has a dry well in the tough geology of the Norwegian Sea, where the promising Voering basin south of the Barents Sea keeps its sandstone secrets.

Northern gets all-clear for Adriatic expansion Jun 25, 2007
U.K.-based Adriatic Sea explorer Northern Petroleum has been granted the green light by Italian authorities to begin improving the prospects of three offshore oil discoveries — Giove, Medusa and Rovesti.

Revus reels in reserves at Murchison Jun 25, 2007
Revus Energy has agreed to buy from Statoil a stake in the Murchison field and the Delta discovery via new stakeholdings, it was understood Monday.

DONG’s Siri to live long on new Ninni oil Jun 21, 2007
Danish oil company DONG and partners announced on Thursday the finding of more tightly packed oil and gas at the Ninni East field than was reckoned to be in place.

Oilexco on road to development at Huntington Jun 20, 2007
Calgary-based North Sea developer Oilexco has tested the Huntington light-oil discovery and attained flows of 5,577 barrels per day of oil and 3.4 million standard cubic feet per day of gas, or more than thought.

PGS to buy electro-magnetic MTEM for $275M Jun 20, 2007
Norwegian survey outfit Petroleum Geo-Services will buy electromagnetic services outfit MTEM for $275 million, it was announced Tuesday.

Statoil re-hires “light” well team for $100M Jun 20, 2007
Statoil has granted a NOK600 million ($100 million) contract extension for light-well intervention, or LWI, to Island Offshore Management and partners FMC Technologies and Aker Kvaerner Well Services.

Bourbon Dolphin “might have made it” if given slack Jun 20, 2007
More slack from rig operators on a mooring wire might have given the Bourbon Dolphin anchor-handling vessel a chance to escape its North Sea rollover and sinking, a court in Aalesund, western Norway heard on Monday.

Norway emissions mixed, as new rules take hold Jun 19, 2007
Emissions of carbon-dioxide and nitrogen oxide were little changed offshore Norway last year, but the count of volatile organic compounds — often harmful carcenogens that persist in the environment — was falling, new numbers say.

Norwegian engineers aim for Big Oil Jun 19, 2007
The big oil companies are where most Norwegian engineering grads want to end up, according to a new survey which also suggests the new cadres may not be of the groundbreaking variety.

Ability rig order marks Norwegian walk in desert Jun 18, 2007
Norway-based Ability Drilling has executed an option and ordered an onshore drill rig and a workover rig from southwest Norwegian TTS Marine Drilling equipment, a business of Sense EDM of Kristiansand.

Carbon tender crowns UK-Norway storage study Jun 15, 2007
The United Kingdom will invite six consortia to bid in a November tender aimed at drawing the U.K. companies best able to make the mass capture, transport and storage of carbon offshore a reality.
By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI

Hydro forms “permanent” seismic joint venture Jun 15, 2007
Hydro Technology Ventures has formed a joint venture company with Input-Output, Inc. and Reservoir Innovation to develop, pilot test, and commercialize a full-wave seismic system for the permanent monitoring of offshore reservoirs.