Offshore & subsea

Once the idle period is complete, the rig will be mobilised to South Africa by Total to commence its charter as planned.

The recovery group convened by OGUK will aim to develop a strategy for the sector to recover as part of OGUK’s three stage framework revealed at the end of April.

The anti-fouling and topside coatings will be used by Total for the advanced drilling platform Deepsea Stavanger, off the coast of South Africa.

Block 52 is located in the prospective Suriname-Guyana Basin, where several major hydrocarbon discoveries have been made recently.

Neptune will pay a US$5 million termination fee to Energean Oil and Gas.

The scope of the contract includes the design of two offshore riser platforms.

The three surveys will cover approximately 10 000 km2 offshore Labrador and Newfoundland, Canada.

Qatar Petroleum has entered into a farm-in agreement with Total to acquire a 45% participating interest in blocks CI-705 and CI-706, located in the Ivorian-Tano Basin.

Petrobras has started well testing of the Forno area in the Albacora field, located in the Campos Basin pre-salt.

The survey will be carried out in the Forties field by the Amazon Warrior.

Well 35/10-6, in production licence 827 S, has been permanently plugged and abandoned.

Aquaterra Energy will design a new single well conductor supported platform for DeNovo Energy, to be located in the Zandolie field.

Under the company’s Fast4Ward programme the total number of hulls ordered to date stands at five, with three allocated to projects.

The new class notation IVBS-BRA developed by Bureau Veritas will help clients to demonstrate compliance with Brazilian regulations for operating FPSOs and FPUs in the country's deepwaters.

The survey took place in water depths of 750 to 3500 m and is Nigeria’s first regional multi-client multibeam and seafloor sampling (MB&SS) study.