Offshore & subsea - 23 November 2016

TenarisHydril Blue, Wedge 513 and Wedge 523 connections used to improve operational efficiency in a deepwater exploration well in Vietnam.

Vallourec is supplying over 1700 t of pipe for the world's largest FPSO.

The well was drilled about 60 km northeast of the oil and gas discovery 7220/11-1 (Alta) and about 20 km east of 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg.

Statoil has also taken over operatorship of Brazilian offshore licence BM-S-8

On Tuesday 22 November at 1730 the drilling rig Scarabeo 5 reported a fire in an engine room. All personnel accounted for.