Offshore & subsea

Work on the 228 m length Stena DrillMAX saw a 48 000 running hours service on a Wartsila W16V32 engine carried out by a team of engineers in Las Palmas in The Canary Islands.

The semi-submersible rig Mærsk Developer is to perform well intervention for Karoon Energy at the Baúna field, offshore Brazil.

Oil production in March was 0.7% lower than the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s forecast, and 0.2% lower than the forecast so far this year.

The aim of the tool is to better qualify and quantify forecasting for operators and regulators.

York started production in 2013 and was planned to produce until 2020, but production has been extended until 2023/24.

Gas is being delivered to eastern Australia with the commissioning of the Gippsland Basin Joint Venture’s West Barracouta project.

Advance Energy now has a 50% interest in the Buffalo project offshore East Timor, with drilling expected to begin in late 2021.

The opening of the centre in Gateshead, UK, is part of Express Engineering’s broader product strategy to supply assembled and tested actuators, connections and tooling for wellheads and subsea production systems for the oil and gas sector.

Worley will provide engineering and design services for the integration and subsea tieback of the Ballymore oil and gas field, operated by Chevron.

Leading the group is unmanned aviation business Flylogix, who alongside US gas sensor technology company SeekOps and supported by OGTC, are operationalising the accurate measurement of methane emissions in the offshore environment.

The drillship Maersk Viking will be employed to drill an ultra-deepwater exploration well in Block F13 offshore Gabon.

The partnership will see Gregg Drilling mobilise its seabed drills onto Ocean Infinity's Armada fleet of uncrewed and optionally crewed vessels.

Taurob and Equinor are partnering up to introduce autonomous ATEX-certified robots to Equinor's oil and gas installations offshore Norway.

Once online at BP's US$9 billion Mad Dog 2 project, Argos, a semi-submersible, floating production platform, will be the company’s fifth operated platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Located in Abu Dhabi and Qatar, the contracts incorporate a wide range of recurring brownfield riser analysis projects, with future greenfield opportunities.