Offshore & subsea

UK Energy Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan also backed Subsea UK's plans for a Global Underwater Hub while speaking at Subsea Live.

The National Petroleum Construction Co. has been awarded a contract to deliver engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities for the offshore facilities required to enable full production capacity of 45 000 bpd of light crude.

The programme comprises three production wells and will develop additional natural gas and liquids reserves, extending the life of the Bayu-Undan field as well as production from the offshore facilities and the Darwin LNG plant.

The contract is with a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BW Offshore group.

BP currently holds a 27.5% non-operated interest in the Shearwater condensate and gas field, operated by Shell, in the UK Central North Sea.

The contract, which started in January 2021, has been awarded for three years and extends 80:20’s coverage to all of TEPUK’s North Sea assets.

The combined company will continue as Delmar Systems and as Vryhof.

The site survey is expected to commence at the end of July 2021 and be completed in 3Q21.

The transaction has been made with EnVen Energy Ventures, LLC.

The funding facility, provided by Arbuthnot Commercial ABL, will deliver working capital to support anticipated growth as well as potential future acquisitions.

The contract scope includes engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of 80 km of rigid risers and flowlines for the steel lazy wave production system, 60 km of flexible service lines, 50 km of umbilicals and associated infrastructure, as well as installation of FPSO mooring lines and hook-up.

The drilling programme for well 16/1-34 S concerns the drilling of an appraisal well in production licence 167. Lundin Energy Norway AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40%.

Finder Energy has acquired the UK North Sea P2502 and P2524 licences from Azinor Catalyst Ltd.

Shell is selling its interest in the Malampaya gas field to Malampaya Energy XP Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of Udenna Corp.

The Haltenbanken East project will be developed as a unit between four different licences, and comprises six discoveries and three prospects with a combined volume in the order of 100 million boe, mostly gas.