Offshore & subsea

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.

The extension, awarded eight months ahead of the renewal date, takes Petrofac’s contract for operations, maintenance, engineering and construction support for NEO Energy’s UK activities, through to December 2022.

The eight-year contract with the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate will see Halliburton deploy and operate Diskos, Norway's national repository of seismic, well and production data.

The agreement will see an array of torque tools, control systems and associated peripherals from the subsea control systems specialist made available to customers through Ashtead Technology’s nine customer service hubs.

The company is reprocessing the Kyranis 3D seismic survey, which covers blocks in current exploration license rounds offshore Timor-Leste and Australia.

The company has spudded the Elgood development well, 48/22c-H1, located in the UK North Sea.

The two-and-a-half-month project will commence in April 2021 and will be conducted by the SW Vespucci.

Block 115/09 covers an area of 7382 km2, with a water depth ranging from 90 m to 1000 m, and is bordered by Block 116, also operated by Eni.

The wildcat wells will be drilled about 10 km west of the Fram field.

The code is designed to promote ‘best practice’, so that ROV inspections are as safe, economic and efficient as possible.

The contract is for Velesto’s jack-up rig NAGA 4 to drill seven firm wells, with an estimated contract value of US$17.68 million.

The agreement includes both 3D new acquisition offshore the Lamu Basin and reimaging vintage data offshore Kenya.

The duration of the survey is approximately four months and will be executed in 2021 using the company's ZXPLR deepwater ocean bottom node technology.