Offshore & subsea

Operator Equinor is planning start-up during the course of September 2019.

Assuming an early September FID date, under the development schedule to be submitted in the finalised Phase 1 Field Development Plan, First Gas is expected to be reached in July 2021 from the Southwark field in the North Sea.

The three-year contract will see OPEX Group roll out its X-PAS predictive analysis service on the Buzzard, Golden Eagle and Scott platforms in the North Sea.

Neivan Boroujerdi, principal analyst, North Sea upstream, at Wood Mackenzie, said the focus for any new buyer will be on increasing recovery and pushing out abandonment costs.

The Netherlands headquartered business will supply two, 180-m-long TCP Jumpers to support the Sinopec subsidiary’s operations in the Okwori field, off the coast of Nigeria.

The Oil & Gas Innovation Centre is supporting a series of projects that will help the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Applied Dynamics Research team develop new offshore drilling operations.

Brazil is set to award seven more FPSO awards in 2020.

Bender is working with oil and gas operators on a range of control systems, electrical distribution networks and historic devices to help classify and eradicate faults and improve system health.

CannSeal’s technology is now available to US and Gulf of Mexico operators looking to extend the life of a mature well or re-establish well integrity.

The company will be exhibiting on Stand 3J05 and showcasing its capabilities for the oil, gas and subsea industry.

Initial engineering work will begin in Perth, Australia, later this year, and then will transfer to Dakar, Senegal in 2020.

The Dvalin gas field is being developed as a subsea field tied back to Heidrun, which lies some 15 km to the northwest.

The well encountered 55 m of net oil pay which supports a recoverable oil resource estimate which exceeds Tullow’s pre-drill forecast.

Jonas Höwing, Sandvik Materials Technology, MENA, looks at the challenges of using stainless steel for hydraulic and instrumentation systems in marine environments.

The extension is for the FEL 2/13, which is located on the west flank of the South Porcupine basin offshore Ireland and includes the Kiely prospects and the Doyle Cretaceous channel complex.