Offshore & subsea

The Monument exploration well found approximately 200 ft (c. 60 m) of net oil pay with good reservoir characteristics in Paleogene sandstone.

The company, under contract to TGS, has completed the offshore 'seep-hunting' surface geochemical analysis and geotechnical campaign of the MSGBC Basin.

Upstream Production Solutions has entered into a three-year contract with Triangle Energy for the provision of operations and maintenance services to the Arrowsmith stabilisation plant (ASP) and Cliff Head Alpha offshore platform in the Perth Basin, Western Australia.

A client of SeaBird Exploration has cancelled two OBN surveys off West Africa due to the Covid-19 situation.

The new deadline for the closing date of Lebanon's ongoing second offshore exploration licensing round is 1 June 2020.

Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery in production licence 1008 between 1 and 2.4 billion m3 of recoverable gas.

The hull is being towed to the Sembcorp Marine Admiralty Yard in Singapore, where the topsides will be integrated, before the completed FPSO is towed to the Karish field in Israel for installation and hook-up.

Oil has been discovered n the pioneer well of the Uirapuru block, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt offshore Brazil.

The latest Kwanza Shelf survey will provide key data for the Angolan 2021 Licence Round.

Sapakara West-1 was drilled to a depth of approximately 6300 m (20 700 ft), and successfully tested for the presence of hydrocarbons in multiple stacked targets.

The 5600 km2 survey will be undertaken over 90 days and is an extension of Atlantic Margin surveys acquired between 2017 and 2019.

ANP announced the suspension in compliance with a request from the country's Ministry of Mines and Energy.

The project is due to commence in 2Q20 and last approximately 3 months.

The expanded coverage over the Malvinas and Austral Basins adds to Searcher’s existing data in the area.

Australia's National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has advised of its acceptance of the Scarborough offshore project proposal.