Eni and Total won operator rights to blocks 28 and 29 respectively in the offshore Namibe basin, while Angola’s state oil company Sonangol and Equinor and BP were awarded smaller stakes.
ION is reimaging 22 000 km2 of data over the country’s deepwater blocks to create a contiguous volume for a holistic exploration perspective of the margin.
The jack-up rig is built to Keppel’s proprietary KFELS B Class design and is the fifth of eleven jack-up rigs that Borr Drilling has ordered from Keppel.
Unity deployed its Temporary Abandonment Cap Test Tool (TACTT) to pressure test two suspended mudline wells in the North Sea in support of an end of life campaign undertaken by Petrofac for a multinational operator.
The acquisition includes the Feubo facility located in Hattingen, Germany, which will become Crosby’s centre of excellence for offshore mooring components.
The award includes 7 licences in the North Sea, 2 licences in the Norwegian Sea and 3 licences in the Southern Barents Sea.
The electrification of the platforms, located in the Norwegian North Sea, will aim to reduce CO2 and NOx emissions.
Maersk Voyager will be employed offshore Angola and Namibia for a campaign which includes the deepest water depth ever drilled offshore.
8 of the production licences are in the North Sea, 8 in the Norwegian Sea and 7 in the Barents Sea.
The firm period agreed with PetroRio for the lease and operation of the FPSO Polvo has been extended to 3Q21 (from 3Q20), with options until 3Q22.
The consent applies to the drilling and completion of two wells on the Bauge field in production licence 348.
The contract is expected to commence in August 2020 and run through April 2022 with an option to extend.
The company was drilling northwest of the Balder field in the central part of the North Sea when it made the discovery of several oil and gas-bearing intervals.
The three-day exhibition and conference, Subsea UK’s flagship annual event, with the theme of “New Perspectives” will focus on exploiting the Blue Economy, the energy transition and cross-sector collaboration to capitalise on emerging opportunities.
The project work scope covers the engineering, procurement, construction, transportation and installation of a SURF system and associated subsea production systems (SPS).