Drilling & production

Duva is the third field involving Neptune Energy to be brought online this year, following Gjøa P1, also offshore Norway, in February and Merakes, offshore Indonesia, in April.

The jack-up rig Mærsk Innovator has been contracted to drill three subsea development wells in Block 28/9 on the UK Continental Shelf.

West Aquila has cancelled the resale contract for the 7th generation ultra-deepwater drillship West Aquila due to delay of delivery, as well as what it claims to be a repudiatory breach of contract.

Shell will use the VALARIS DS-10 for drilling one well offshore Namibia and Sao Tome and Principe.

The sale to Kentech was completed on 15 August, following receipt of Saudi Arabian regulatory approval.

The merger is expected to be completed in the second quarter of the 2022 calendar year with an effective date of 1 July 2021.

Production has started from the Cuica field via the Armada Olombendo FPSO vessel.

Woodside has confirmed it is in discussions with BHP over a potential merger involving BHP’s entire petroleum business.

Upwing Energy will present a paper on high-speed magnetic technology solutions for downhole machinery at the 2021 Offshore Technology Conference.

A boosting system supplied by OneSubsea has enhanced production at the Equinor-operated Vigdis oilfield in the North Sea.

DNO ASA has completed the acquisition of ExxonMobil's remaining stake in the Baeshiqa licence.

The company has said it will invest in appropriate accredited voluntary offsets to achieve scope 1 and 2 net zero emissions.

The cash and stock transaction is valued at approximately US$788 million.

Blythe is the second development well in IOG's Phase 1 North Sea project and is expected to take under three months to drill and complete.

The Liuhua 21-2 oilfield is is expected to reach its peak production of approximately 15 070 bpd in 2023.