Drilling & production - 17 October 2012

Aker Solutions is to provide 34 km of umbilicals for the Block 15\06 West Hub development project in the Angolan deepwater region.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has announced that Norway produced 15% less crude in September than had been estimated and was consequently likely to miss its overall production target for 2012.

As part of an ongoing lawsuit between Chevron and plaintiffs from various Amazonian villages, an Ecuadorian court has ordered the seizure of approximately US$ 200 million worth of company assets.

The location of the FSRU has been changed at the request of the Indonesian government and as a result the agreement has been revised, Höegh will also now be reimbursed for the cost of the mooring system.

Poland’s Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, has announced plans to tax oil and gas companies at roughly 40% of their profits as the government begins to outline what it hopes will be seen as an investment-friendly regulatory framework.

Wärtsilä Moss AS is providing Inert gas generator units to an FPSO unit for the Icthys LNG project in the Browse Basin.