Offshore & subsea

CNOOC and 80883 (RMB Counter) has announced that it has achieved a high yield well in Beibu Gulf, which produces over 1000 m3/d of oil.

Deltic Energy has announced that the Valaris 123 drilling unit has been mobilised and is on route to the Selene well location.

Seatrium has announced that it has secured a series of repairs and upgrades contracts with an aggregate value of US$180 million from their partners.

QatarEnergy has signed an agreement with Chevron to acquire a 20% working interest in a production sharing contract for block 5 offshore Suriname.

Parkmead has announced that further to the provisional award of three blocks as part of the 33rd UK offshore licensing round, the P2634 licence has now been formally awarded to Parkmead by the UK Government’s North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA).

TechnipFMC has been awarded a large integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (iEPCI™) contract by Energean for its Katlan development in the Mediterranean Sea.

Diamond Offshore Drilling hasannounced that it has entered into a contract with BOE Exploration & Production LLC for the Ocean BlackRhino for work in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

Tenaz Energy has entered into an agreement with Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V., a 50/50 joint venture between Shell PLC and ExxonMobil Corporation, to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of NAM Offshore B.V. for base consideration of €165 million (US$246 million), prior to closing adjustments and contingent payments.

The company has announced an extension of its deepwater Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) data acquisition campaign in West Africa.

BW Energy has signed a letter agreement to acquire shares in Reconnaissance Energy Africa and 20% interest in onshore exploration license PEL 73 in Namibia.

TotalEnergies has announced that its subsidiary TotalEnergies EP Nigeria signed a sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Chappal Energies for the sale of its 10% interest in the SPDC JV licenses in Nigeria.

North Sea operators must take action on well decommissioning to support the UK’s supply chain, clean up their oil and gas legacy and stop costs spiralling, the industry regulator has warned.

PTTEP has developed the marine science data platform called PTTEP Ocean Data Platform to collect marine science data, marks Thailand’s first time of using offshore petroleum platform as data collection station.

CNOOC Ltd and 80883 has announced that the Bozhong 19-6 Condensate Gas Field D1 Well, the first ultra-deep well in Bohai Bay, achieved high yield.

ADNOC has announced the deployment of RoboWell, AIQ’s pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) autonomous well-control solution, in its operations at the offshore NASR field.