Offshore & subsea

MODEC has commissioned MAN Energy Solutions to supply a total of five radial compressor and two screw compressor trains for the largest FPSO vessel to ever be delivered to Brazil.

Two wells at the Cappahayden and Cambriol prospects, drilled this summer in the Flemish Pass Basin, have proven the presence of hydrocarbons.

Petrobras has agreed to purchase the FPSO P-71, currently under construction, for US$353 million.

Impact has acquired ExxonMobil and Equinor's interests in the Transkei & Algoa Exploration Right and the Tugela South Exploration Right, offshore South Africa.

Wintershall Dea has begun drilling the first of six wells on the operated Nova field in the Norwegian North Sea.

Drilling at the Luiperd well has encountered 73 m of net gas condensate pay in well-developed good quality Lower Cretaceous reservoirs.

The estimate for the new oil discovery is between 0.5 and 3.2 million m3 of recoverable oil equivalent.

OGUK’s Workforce Insight report 2020 has shown that the number of workers on offshore oil and gas installations decreased by around 4000 as the UK went into lockdown in March this year.

CGG is preparing for Phase II of its Nebula 3D survey in the Campos and Santos Basins offshore Brazil.

BP, Eni, Equinor, National Grid, Shell and Total have formed a new partnership, the Northern Endurance Partnership, to develop offshore carbon dioxide transport and storage infrastructure in the UK North Sea.

THREE60 ENERGY has won a multi-million pound contract to deliver duty holder services for DNO’s two assets in the UK Continental Shelf.

Deep Casing Tools, together with its regional partner for Asia Pac, EFTECH, has successfully ran 3 more of its Turborunner tools with Shell Sarawak.

A seismic consortium comprising PGS, TGS and WesternGeco has been awarded a multi-year contract by Petronas to acquire and process multi-sensor multi-client 3D data in the Sarawak Basin.

BP has started production from the Qattameya gas field in the North Damietta offshore concession.

EM&I have received approval from DNV GL in Aberdeen, UK, for their DNV GL-CP-0484 Approval of Service Suppliers Process for ‘A03 In Water Surveys (ROV)’ and ‘A16 Remote Inspection Techniques (Camera)’.