Offshore & subsea - 11 December 2018

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor Energy AS a drilling permit for well 36/1-3, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.

The ramp-up of Vandumbu will lead to a total production of about 170 000 bpd.

Vår Energi is the largest independent exploration and production company on the Norwegian continental shelf, with a net production rate of more than 170 000 boe/d in 2018.

The contract will create two new roles (a customer support engineer and a technical advisor) and will also increase the service engineer team by 10%.

UTEC, a global surveying company in subsea services group Acteon, has been awarded a subcontract by McDermott International for a series of survey work scopes offshore eastern India.