Offshore & subsea

Lloyd's Register conducted a detailed technical study on behalf of the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) into potential options for decarbonising the offshore energy system.

The equipment will be placed onto the Anna Nery FPSO vessel on behalf of Yinson.

The drillship Noble Sam Croft will begin drilling in 4Q20 after the rig finishes its current programme offshore Suriname.

Hurricane has concluded that there is a reasonable probability that the oil water contact in the Lancaster field is shallower than the range of oil water contacts envisaged in the 2017 Competent Person’s Report by RPS Energy.

The Oil and Gas Authority's Energy Integration Project report has found that oil and gas platform electrification is essential to cutting sector production emissions in the near term, and critical to the industry’s social licence to operate.

The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks in the Middle Jurassic (Sleipner Formation) and the Upper Triassic (Skagerrak Formation).

The company has been contracted by NEO Energy to operate the Victoria well in the southern North Sea.

The inspection was carried out in UK waters, 250 km east of Scotland, using an ROV and the company's remote operations centre in Aberdeen.

The volumes are estimated to be in the range of 40 – 120 million boe – the largest discovery in Norway so far this year.

Well 6507/4-1 will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility in production licence 1009.

The amended Walton Morant Licence covers an area of 22 400 km2, and has numerous plays and prospects already identified across three separate basins.

The contract comprises the design, engineering, fabrication and installation (including assistance to hook-up and commission) of both normally unmanned installation production platforms for the IOG-operated Southwark and Blythe gas fields in the UK Southern North Sea.

The Bressay oilfield was discovered east of Shetland in 1976 and Equinor became operator in 2007.

Wildcat well 7219/9-3 was drilled about 25 km south of the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea and 220 km northwest of Hammerfest.

Ampelmann and Olympic Shipping are supporting topside commissioning work on Ithaca Energy’s FPF-1 offshore semi-submersible in the North Sea.