Offshore & subsea

Wood has secured a three-year extension to a framework agreement with Shell to continue to deliver completions management, certification software and support to its assets globally.

The two highly prospective blocks in the Central North Sea cover an area of 13.6 km2 and are close to the substantial Piper, MacCulloch and Dumbarton/Donan oil fields and include the Palaeocene Crown Oil Discovery.

Active Caisson Management delivers a single sourced solution for inspection, cleaning, coating and planned and programmed maintenance and repair scheduling to drive cost efficiencies and maintain asset integrity throughout the lifecycle of a caisson.

Aberdeenshire based company creates new posts in response to increased demand for its services.

These two appointments follow upon the nomination of new global chief executive officer Mark Jones, at the end of last year as part of the global strategy of delivering consistent services around the world.

Held in Aberdeen next month, the event will bring operators and the supply chain together in a highly focused environment, to discuss decommissioning project challenges and opportunities.

Wood will provide maintenance services, modifications and shutdown support as part of the contract which covers Shell’s onshore facilities in Batangas and offshore assets in the Malampaya field, near Palawan Island.

DeltaTek will provide cementing services via its SeaCure technology, in support of Siccar Point’s drilling and field development operations within the North Sea.

Turnkey solution installed without disruption to platform operations in the North Sea.

The engineering and technology group, which announced its launch last month is rolling out an ambitious and transformative strategy to meet the immediate and long-term strategic value-add needs of their clients.

Terry Childs, Head of Riglogix, provides an overview of the Gulf of Mexico jackup market.

Wood has further extended the SURF IM Network, which aims to share experience and lessons learned from subsea integrity and reliability issues and is supported by 10 major global operators.

United Oil & Gas Plc has announced that the fast track version of the recently acquired 3D seismic dataset over the Walton-Morant licence, offshore Jamaica, has been delivered by the operator, Tullow Jamaica Ltd.

The Shell-operated Brent field, is located 115 miles east of the Shetland Islands, in 140 m water depth, and has been in production since 1976.

Trelleborg’s offshore operation will showcase its range of high-performance solutions, from topside to subsea at the Offshore North Sea (ONS) in Stavanger, Norway.