Drilling & production

The Leviathan field was discovered in 2010, and the initial development phase was sanctioned in 2017.

The new contract award, under a 10-year Framework Agreement signed in 2017 with PDO, is an Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) services contract for the Mabrouk North East Development Project in Oman.

Equinor and Rosneft have taken an investment decision on the first stage of the North Komsomolskoye full field development.

Slava Kiryushin, global head of energy at DWF, highlights the expected trends of 2020 in the global energy sector. 

The country's Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons is expecting direct investment of a minimum of US$1.4 billion; a firm US$1.2 billion and a contingent forecast of US$273 million predicted for 2020, associated with the drilling of two wells and the continuous development of six existing wells.

The production of oil from Layang is estimated at approximately 3000 bpd, and an estimated 10 000 boe/d with natural gas combined.

The contract work includes drilling operations, work-over campaigns, P&A activities and all preventative and corrective maintenance of ConocoPhillips’ drilling facilities on three offshore platforms in the Greater Ekofisk Area.

The progress into the Pikka field’s FEED phase is subject to approval from joint venture partners and the finalisation of required third-party agreements.

Re-evaluation of data and core analysis indicates a material upgrade in liquid hydrocarbons contained in the Kirkham Abbey reservoir in the West Newton project area. The Upside Case estimates are liquids 283 million bbl and gas 265.9 billion ft3.

The contract for the semi-submersible rig Maersk Discoverer has an estimated duration of 322 days and is expected to commence in July 2020.

The project is located in the Gulf of Thailand and comprises a new bridge-linked wellhead platform structure along with the retrofitting of extension structures to the existing platforms.

Three appraisal wells drilled this year, GTA-1, Yakaar-2 and Orca-1, targeted a total of nine hydrocarbon-bearing zones. The wells encountered gas in high quality reservoirs in all nine zones.

The three-year contract will support both onshore and offshore activity for BP operated projects in the Caspian Sea area including Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG), Shah Deniz, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC), South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) and Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP).

The contract is expected to commence in 2Q20 and will contribute approximately US$91 million of contract backlog, excluding mobilisation reimbursement.

The partnership will enable the E&P industry to build and deploy their own artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across the full breadth of their upstream workflows.