Offshore & subsea - 23 June 2020

Recent media reports have said that Senegal has been forced to delay its first oil and gas projects by up to two years because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The system, initially delivered in the Intervention Riser System (IRS) configuration, provides a 6-3/8 in. through bore and is suitable for all types of well intervention operations up to 15 000 psi and in water depths up to 10 000 ft.

Exploratory drilling has begun at the Shirotno-Rakushechnaya prospect structure, located to the north of the V.I. Grayfer field in the North Caspian Sea.

Spirit Energy has received permission to drill a wildcat well in production licence 780, about 5 km north of the Ivar Aasen field in the central part of the North Sea.

The projects in scope are Breidablikk and the Gas Import System for the Snorre Expansion Project, for which contracts have been awarded, and Askeladd Vest, for which a letter of intent has been issued.