Drilling & production

Maria Phase 2 is a four well subsea tie-back to existing infrastructure in Harbour’s operated Maria field.

“Adura” has been chosen as the name for Equinor and Shell’s incorporated joint venture (IJV).

The installation, completed earlier this year, forms part of Salunda’s growing activity in the Americas deepwater market.

The agreement is to scale the adoption of automated and autonomous drilling solutions.

Maritime Developments (MDL) has been awarded a contract by Saipem to provide specialist equipment and operational support for two recent flex-lay campaigns offshore Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mauritania.

Supported by industry funding, Laconia Phase III, covering approximately 150 OCS blocks in the Keathley Canyon protraction areas, will be acquired by TGS and imaged by Viridien to target prospective but difficult-to-image subsalt reservoirs.

As part of the collaboration, PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd. will deploy Halliburton Landmark’s DecisionSpace® 365 Geosciences Suite and Unified Ensemble Modelling solutions with the objective to unify exploration and development workflows and accelerate time to first oil.

This is the third discovery exploration well in production licence 891.

The FPSO came on stream on 31 March, while the first cargo was loaded on 25 May, shipping around 700 000 barrels to Spain.

Repsol Resources UK has awarded Halliburton a five year contract to support the full well lifecycle on their platform assets in the UK North Sea.

The US Energy Information Administration has forecast crude oil production in the Federal Offshore Gulf of America [Gulf of Mexico] (henceforth GoA) will average 1.80 million bpd in 2025 and 1.81 million bpd in 2026, compared with 1.77 million bpd in 2024, in its most recent Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).

Onshore crude oil production in the US Lower 48 states (L48) has more than tripled since January 2010, driven by tight oil production growth in the Permian region.

Mento is one of bp’s 10 major projects expected to start up worldwide between 2025 and 2027 that bp announced earlier this year as part of its strategy to grow the upstream.