Offshore & subsea

Shearwater GeoServices has announced the award of a large towed streamer 3D acquisition and Fast Track processing project in the Black Sea by Total E&P Bulgaria B.V.

Preliminary estimates place the size of the oil discovery, 11 km southeast of Gudrun, between 1 and 2.7 million m3 of recoverable oil.

VOS will continue its exclusive provision of four vessels to support BP’s North Sea and West of Shetland assets until 2023.

Ocean Infinity has been awarded a contract with ExxonMobil for AUV geophysical and geotechnical data acquisition within the Stabroek block offshore Guyana.

The FPSO Abigail-Joseph is expected to reach Nigeria by early May after which she will undergo final commissioning works.

Wood is delivering an engineering design project for Chevron’s Anchor deepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Agogo field offshore Angola now has 1 billion bbl, following the drilling of appraisal well Agogo-3.

The project offshore Mauritania will the first where Maersk Decom will provide an end-to-end plugging and abandonment solution under one single contract.

Energean Oil and Gas plc has signed an agreement for the acquisition of Total’s stake in Block 2, offshore Western Greece.

Chris Thompson, chairman of engineering firm Express Engineering, considers leveraging the supply chain to drive competitiveness in the subsea oil and gas equipment market.

Subsea Engineering and Technical Services provides subsea engineering services to the offshore oil and gas industry in the UK and internationally.

The additional oil production was delivered through infill drilling projects carried out as part of an aggressive production enhancement programme.

Keppel has said it has delivered the world’s fastest brownfield FPSO modification and upgrading project.

In the second part of this two-part article, Ray Burke, Baker Hughes, explores new integrity management technology that can get the most out of flexible pipe.

The contract, worth in excess of £100 million pounds, will see ASCO continue to provide a fully managed and integrated, logistics, materials management, waste and marine gas oil supply service.