287million might be recoverable over a 24-year period. Depending on how Phase-1 works out, further development is possible, with a recoverables target of 400mmb, though there is informal talk of more than 500mmb [...] Offshore Faroes 2003 JEREMY CRESSWELL . Not only is it a lifeline to Sullom Voe, getting this giant of a field onstream will be the end of a 27-year haul, given that Clair was located west of Shetland [...] t has been shelved at least once. But now the project is unstoppable, with construction past the halfway mark and apparently on track. Clair is a monster in more ways than one. It?s not just huge (220sq
quarantine challenge was to sing a song in a language we don't speak (then again less than 50k people speak it, which is a good thing: it means not many people will know how much we screwed up). Léa and myself [...] people. Only saw them 1.5 days more than two years ago and yet I miss them on a regular basis. Good old genius Josué made a beautiful arrangement of an amazing song for us <3 Marius Ziska - Ongin er Orsøk [...] myself were talking about doing a cover of this song for months already, and now was the perfect time. It was the first song I recorded during Recording Europe in the Faroe Islands, and my instant favourite
n, just a highway, a couple of fast-food restaurants, and miles upon miles of fields: I had landed in Hicksville, I just wasn’t aware of it. On the way to school, we stopped at a Wal-Mart, a gigantic [...] anywhere else. The school is excellent and the knowledge I have gained there is monumental. But my schooling has not only happened in the classroom. Before I left for America, a girl asked me if I didn’t [...] was to far away to go. I had told her with great confidence that it was only a plane ticket away. That is not true. America is much further away than that. To come here was like going to another planet where
discovery. Is it potentially commercial or is it not? That is the question being asked in the wake of conflicting reports. The 12/2-1z Rockall Basin well drilled last year appeared to encounter a significant [...] deepwater Nigeria, it is hardly surprising that the North-west European effort is so low key. And, as rigs gradually but inexorably migrate out of the North Sea, the more difficult it is likely to become in [...] would be obliged to release a great deal more data than has been made available. It would be more difficult to shroud a well in mystery for years on end ? tight hole status ? than is customarily the case,
That is at any rate the view held by the Danish company DONG, which, as a member of The Faroes Partnership, is participating in the drilling of the third exploratory well on Faroese territory. »It is easier [...] savings is that the drilling team has been able to optimise the drilling work as the programme has proceeded »When one drills so many wells, one acquires a thorough knowledge of the subsoil in a specific [...] By Lise Kirkegaard It takes more than a successful exploratory well for a drilling operation on foreign territory to be a success. It also takes integration into and understanding of the local culture
That is at any rate the view held by the Danish company DONG, which, as a member of The Faroes Partnership, is participating in the drilling of the third exploratory well on Faroese territory. »It is easier [...] savings is that the drilling team has been able to optimise the drilling work as the programme has proceeded »When one drills so many wells, one acquires a thorough knowledge of the subsoil in a specific [...] By Lise Kirkegaard It takes more than a successful exploratory well for a drilling operation on foreign territory to be a success. It also takes integration into and understanding of the local culture
There was a great buzz about the place back in 1978. When I arrived first there was a lot of construction work going on; such as earth moving, civil construction work, laying the foundations for a lot of the [...] created a prosperous society that enjoys one of the highest standards of living anywhere in Britain. A unique partnership between the industry and the local authority has secured the islands a steady stream [...] communities, it is worth noting that when oil was first found in the northern North Sea, some 30 years ago, many Shetlanders were not keen to seen the industry arriving. Shetlanders had been living a certain lifestyle
