Drilling & production

Despite the low cycle that the market is facing, a total of 30 crude and natural gas projects are expected to start operations in the North Sea by 2020.

Savannah Petroleum PLC has provided an update on its upcoming drilling campaign in Niger.

Wood Group has been awarded a contract with Statoil to provide front end engineering design (FEED) to the subsea flowline system of the Snorre Expansion Project in the Norwegian North Sea.

Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has completed the Edvard Grieg Southwest appraisal well 16/1-27.

TMC Compressors (TMC) has been awarded a contract by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DMSE) to supply a marine compressed air system to a new-build floating storage and regasification unit (FRSU).

The contract will be executed by Wood Group’s Rio de Janeiro office focusing on the technical requirements of a floating production unit (FPU) and subsea structures, and all bid package evaluations and execution phase.

Lamprell, a provider of fabrication, engineering and contracting services to the energy industry, is pleased to announce the completion of the 'Shelf Drilling Krathong' jackup drilling rig and its delivery to Shelf Drilling Ltd.

The company's OneTrip® BOP Universal Test Tool is to be recognised at the Offshore Technology Conference.

Trelleborg’s offshore operation launches Buoyant Uraduct®, a protection system for subsea cables, umbilicals, flowlines and hoses.

Forum Subsea Rentals, a Forum Energy Technologies business, announces that new multiplexer video and data acquisition technology is available to their global rental market following significant investment in MacArtney’s EMO range.

Norwegian authorities have approved the PDO of the Trestakk discovery on the Halten Bank in the Norwegian Sea. Investments are calculated at NOK 5.5 billion, almost half of the original estimate.

2H Offshore has successfully completed the installation of the first of 17 production top tension risers.

The new technology to be presented at upcoming conference in Texas

BP has announced it has agreed to sell its Forties Pipeline System (FPS) business, with assets including the main Forties offshore and onshore pipelines and other associated pipeline interests and facilities, to INEOS.

LGO has confirmed that well GY-683 was spudded on Friday 31 March 2017 with Rig#18 at the Goudron Field in eastern Trinidad. The well is currently drilling ahead at a depth in excess of 350 ft.