Offshore & subsea

Petrobras has postponed the Integrated Project of Parque das Baleias by about one year, with the start of operation and first oil delayed to 2024.

The Energy Enticer had a safe and successful mobilisation to Qatar Petroleum’s North Field in early September 2020.

Weatherford achieved the industry’s first 12 ¼-in. casing sidetrack, delivering a 22 ft window in a single trip for an ultra-deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Equinor has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft to explore ways to support the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage project as a technology partner.

The Walker Ridge programme covers approximately 300 OCS blocks including two priority areas of significant industry interest.

Enpro’s technology enabled the safe access and removal of ‘attic’ oil from concrete storage cells at the base of the Brent Bravo platform in 140 m water depth.

Wood has entered into a three-year agreement to deliver operations, maintenance, modifications, and offshore services.

The scope of work includes data acquisition and real-time riser analysis for dynamic positioning rig operations for up to seven wells in water depths between 150 m and 700 m.

PJ Valves will supply valves packages to the Marlin 2 and Mero 2 FPSO projects.

Petrobras has awarded DOF Subsea a three year MPSV vessel contract for the Mero field.

DNV GL performed remote safety inspections of one box boom pedestal crane on the Valhall Flank West and two knuckle boom cranes on the Skarv field, both as part of annual surveys.

The pilot project will aim to predict and analyse fatigue in the hull of a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the North Sea.

An agreement was reached in a meeting last Friday between Norwegian Oil and Gas and the Norwegian Organisation of Managers and Executives (Lederne).

Neptune Energy is to increase its interest in the Dugong licence to 45%.

If the ongoing strike on the Norwegian continental shelf continues until 14 October, the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea will have to close production until further notice.