Offshore & subsea

Production optimisation specialist, Enpro Subsea, has completed two subsea hydraulic intervention campaigns for two operators in West Africa.

The well was drilled with a floating jack-up rig Neptune, mounted on a riser block platform.

Oil and gas production has started at the P-68 FPSO located in BM-S-11-A Concession in Berbigão, Sururu and West Atapu.

The Stena Forth has been contracted to drill one well, being the Marina-1 exploration well, in Karoon’s 40% owned and operated Block Z-38 in the Tumbes Basin in Peru with drilling scheduled to commence early in 1Q20.

The agreements will be awarded to Aker Solutions AS, Axess AS, Oceaneering Asset Integrity AS and IKM Operations AS, taking effect from 1 January 2020.

The company has announced a major rig fleet expansion programme to support its upstream growth plans and enable the delivery of its 2030 Smart Growth Strategy.

WFS Technologies was named as the Economic Disruptor of the Year for Scotland and Northern Ireland at The Spectator’s annual awards for its wireless Seatooth products.

JDR is designing and manufacturing eleven 66kV dynamic inter-array cables and two static export cables for the Hywind Tampen project.

The Mærsk Developer semi-submersible rig is expected to begin operating offshore Trindad and Tobago for BG International Ltd in 1Q20.

The exploration well in the Brulpadda prospects encountered 57 m of net gas condensate play in Lower Cretaceous reservoirs.

The underwater inspection in lieu of dry-docking (UWLID) project was undertaken for Borr Drilling in the North Sea.

The company expects to complete the sale of the G1201 vessel in December as these conditions are met, including delivery of the vessel in December 2019.

In the second part of this two-part article, Graham Gillies, Baker Hughes, explains the three layers of technology innovation that, if adopted by the subsea supply chain, could overcome many of the challenges created by the current economic situation.

The FPSO will be chartered for 21 years and deployed in the Búzios field in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil.

The mooring line monitoring technology that has been developed by BMT has been supplied to LMC to monitor mooring pull-in and inclination of the chain stoppers during the FPSO hook-up installation phases and long-term operation of its internal turret mooring system on the Helang FPSO.