Offshore & subsea

The UK subsea sector will have the opportunity to strengthen its international presence at the largest oil and gas exhibition in Australasia next month.

The company has entered into an agreement with its customer, Equinor, to license and install Automated Drilling Control (‘ADC’) systems on four high-specification, harsh environment rigs and a fifth semisubmersible.

The company will provide transportation and installation of offshore structures, pipelines and pre-commissioning work for the Pan Malaysia field development located off the shore of Sarawak, Malaysia.

The company has reached an agreement to align the its interests, under Santos operatorship, across four exploration permits in the Bonaparte Basin offshore Northern Australia adjacent to a large existing contingent resource.

Wood has secured a new US$13 million contract with Equinor to deliver engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) services to the Vigdis boosting station increased oil recovery (IOR) project.

Under the TechnipFMC/DOF joint venture agreement, TechnipFMC will manage flexible pipelay, and DOF will be responsible for marine operations.

Senior representatives of a major Brazilian oil company and of a leading FPSO lease operator visited EM&I’s Technology Centre for demonstrations of state-of-the-art methods for inspection and maintenance of floating offshore installations.

Having the best equipment for the task in hand is essential, but maintaining it to ensure it always delivers is arguably even more important, as John Curno of Bosch Rexroth discusses.

The vessel and crew will support Neptune Energy B.V. with its IRM campaigns on the Dutch Continental Shelf from March 2019 until 2021.

The company, which is the operator of production licence 248 C, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 35/11-22 S.

The company has exercised an option for the purchase of a second newbuild Gusto MSC CJ46 design jackup rig from the PaxOcean Group for US$83.75 million.

James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS), a leading provider of integrated marine services, has completed an important diving activity for an international oil and gas exploration and production company, Premier Oil UK.

The TSC U41™ is a diver- or ROV-deployable ACFM® inspection system for the detection and sizing of surface-breaking cracks.

Trendsetter’s scope of work included multiple clamp connection systems, subsea distribution equipment, MEG filter modules, 2 in. connection systems and subsea manifolds.

This follows sanction by BP, as the Operator, of the Atlantis Phase 3 project, announced in January 2019.