Serica Energy awarded UKCS licence
The award contains the HPHT North Eigg and South Eigg prospects. The primary prospect is North Eigg which is estimated to contain 360 billion ft3 (P50) and potentially over 1 trillion ft3 (P10) of recoverable gas.
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TGS completes Multibeam and Coring programme in Campos and Santos Basins
The study, known as a SeepHunter campaign, includes the results of 342 conventional cores and 29 jumbo piston cores and heat probes.
Shearwater GeoServices awarded offshore India campaign by ONGC
The survey covers 1600 km2 of 3D and 800 km of 2D data in a deepwater area of the Bay of Bengal.
Odfjell Drilling awarded platform drilling contract by ConocoPhillips
The contract work includes drilling operations, work-over campaigns, P&A activities and all preventative and corrective maintenance of ConocoPhillips’ drilling facilities on three offshore platforms in the Greater Ekofisk Area.
Australia's offshore regulator gives second of four approvals for Equinor exploration project
The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority has accepted Equinor’s environment plan for exploratory petroleum drilling in the Great Australian Bight.
Magma Global to provide subsea jumpers for Gulf of Mexico flowline intervention
Magma Global has been selected by C-Innovation to supply m-pipe® thermoplastic composite subsea jumpers for flowline intervention in the Gulf of Mexico.
Repsol awards Shearwater GeoServices hybrid node-streamer seismic survey in Malaysia
The project will cover approximately 1000 km2 of ocean bottom and towed streamer seismic on Repsol’s operated block offshore Peninsular Malaysia.
Bilfinger supports ONEgas to decomplex North Sea gas platform
ONEgas is decomplexing their gas field in the Netherlands Continental Shelf in order to centralise gas processing and switch platforms to unmanned operation.
Subsea 7 awarded gas field development contract offshore China
The contract scope includes transportation and installation of five steel catenary risers for CNOOC’s Lingshui 17-2 Gas Field Development Project.
DNV GL and DNO sign framework agreement for Norwegian Continental Shelf operations
DNV GL will support DNO in enhancing safety, maintaining compliance and reducing its environmental footprint.
BP awards Maersk Drilling three-well contract offshore Trinidad
The contract for the semi-submersible rig Maersk Discoverer has an estimated duration of 322 days and is expected to commence in July 2020.
BP drilling campaign confirms potential of gas resources offshore Mauritania and Senegal
Three appraisal wells drilled this year, GTA-1, Yakaar-2 and Orca-1, targeted a total of nine hydrocarbon-bearing zones. The wells encountered gas in high quality reservoirs in all nine zones.
Total acquires interests in two blocks offshore Angola
Total has acquired interests in Blocks 20/11 and 21/09 in the Kwanza Basin, offshore Luanda.
SOCAR/Petrofac joint venture secures project management services contract with BP
The three-year contract will support both onshore and offshore activity for BP operated projects in the Caspian Sea area including Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG), Shah Deniz, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC), South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) and Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP).
Transocean announces contract award for semisubmersible
The contract is expected to commence in 2Q20 and will contribute approximately US$91 million of contract backlog, excluding mobilisation reimbursement.