Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the 7th generation drillship Maersk Valiant, which will be employed by Noble Energy for a one-well campaign offshore Colombia.
The FPSO will allow for the integration of potential future development phases, including gas export to shore and future subsea tie-backs.
Talos is the operator of Zama, located offshore Mexico, and holds a 35% working interest in Block 7 in a consortium with its partners Sierra Oil & Gas, a Wintershall DEA company, and Premier Oil plc.
Based on extensive mapping of the underground the remaining potential of the Statfjord area is still considerable, according to Equinor and its partners.
CGG has closed its strategic partnership transaction for marine seismic acquisition services with Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (Shearwater).
Both contracts are now firm until the end of December 2020 and will commence in direct continuation of the current contracts.
The one-month survey will cover parts of block A5 offshore Gambia in the rapidly emerging and prolific Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Conakry (MSGBC) Basin.
Royston has completed the overhaul of a critical power system onboard another Bluewater Services operated floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.
In a two-year deal valued in the region of US$50 million, Petrofac will integrate the services of its Operations, Projects and Well Engineering service lines.
The assets to be sold by BP include its interests in the Andrew area in the central UK North Sea and its non-operating interest in the Shearwater field.
The discovery was made at the Maka Central-1 well drilled offshore Suriname on Block 58.
Drilling in block 6507/8 is scheduled to begin in mid-January 2020, and is estimated to last for 67 days.
Vessel utilisation for 4Q19 was 80% compared with 32% for 4Q18. For the full year 2019, the vessel utilisation was 59%, whereas the utilisation for the full year 2018 was 33%.
The first phase of the plan to reduce emissions by 2030 means more than 5 million t in annual reductions, representing around 10% of total annual Norwegian greenhouse gas emissions today.
GMS will provide support for offshore activities on behalf of two Middle Eastern national oil companies.