Offshore & subsea

Following the relinquishment of LO 16/19 in the South Porcupine Basin, Europa’s licence position offshore Ireland comprises five 100%-owned licences.

Alligin forms part of the Greater Schiehallion Area and has been developed as a two-well subsea tieback into the existing Schiehallion and Loyal subsea infrastructure and the Glen Lyon floating, production, storage, offload (FPSO) vessel.

2G Robotics will join the Sonardyne group of companies, while remaining an independent business and brand, continuing to serve its customer base in unmanned and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs).

The ultramodern data was acquired over blocks Z5-C and Z5-D and surrounding open acreage as part of a multi-client programme agreed between CGG and Mozambique’s Instituto Nacional de Petroleo (INP).

The company has announced an increase in gross prospective resources to 5.14 billion boe in the Orinduik block offshore Guyana.

The Geoquip Marine survey vessel MV Investigator is at the proposed site for the NJOM-3 well, and is presently conducting the site survey.

The system will be installed on FTAI’s flagship DP3 vessel M/V Pride.

The survey will provide modern 3D data over held and vacant acreage in the frontier Papuan Basin.

The UK’s underwater engineering industry is set to recruit 8928 people in the next three years, according to the findings of a new report.

80 trillion ft3 of shallow gas resources has been discovered within an area of 5000 km2 between Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

KBR will act as the main PMC contractor responsible for managing the successful engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors for Packages A & B of the Dalma Gas Development Project, Packages 1-5 of the Hail & Ghasha Development Project, Hail & Ghasha Islands Project as well as the Deep Gas Project.

DOF Subsea has secured contracts for pre-lay and LBL array installation activities in Guyana, subsea installation work in Trinidad and well-head removal work in Canada.

PGNiG Upstream Norway now has a 30% interest in the PL636 and PL636B licences in the North Sea.

The five-year contract will take effect in April 2020.

The four companies have entered into related agreements on 30 January 2020.