Offshore & subsea

Neptune Energy has signed an operated exploration licence with the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) for Egypt’s North West El Amal offshore concession.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will offer over 78 million acres for a region-wide lease sale scheduled for 18 March 2020.

The ultra-deepwater drillships Noble Bob Douglas, Noble Tom Madden and Noble Don Taylor, which are currently executing drilling assignments for ExxonMobil offshore Guyana, are included in the framework agreement, and other drilling rigs may be added to the agreement.

Aker BP will hold a 35% interest in licence 838, which contains the Shrek discovery, and a 88.0825% interest in licence 127C, which contains the Alve Nord discovery and the Alve NE prospect.

Oceaneering is to provide comprehensive riserless light well intervention services offshore Angola in Blocks 18 and 31.

Petrofac has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with MODS, a digitalisation and dimensional control service company, to deploy its flagship product ‘Virtual Manager Enterprise’ (VME) at scale in the North Sea.

The company is to design and support installation of a Sea Swift offshore platform off the coast of Angola.

Gaffney Cline and Associates has been commissioned by the operator on behalf of the Duyung PSC partners to update its view of the Mako field.

Mozambique’s oil and gas regulator, the National Petroleum Institute, and senior representatives from SOCAR, the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic, will be actively promoting business opportunities for UK subsea companies at Subsea Expo.

A new gas module that was recently put onstream on the Troll C platform will accelerate and boost production from Fram by substantial profitable volumes.

The Geoquip Marine survey vessel MV Investigator completed its survey at the NJOM-3 well site on the Thali block offshore Cameroon on 7 February 2020.

The government of South Africa has approved Africa Oil Corp's acquisition of a 20% participating interest in the Block 3B/4B Exploration Right from Azinam Ltd. by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Africa Oil SA Corp.

The results of the surveys in the Ceiba and Okume fields are due to become available in 4Q20.

The surveys will obtain critical seabed and sub-seabed information to facilitate the planning and emplacement of the Pecan subsea infrastructure and the FPSO ship.

Hurricane is planning an accelerated Lancaster Area work programme, focussed on drilling an additional production well on Lancaster in 2020.