PAO NOVATEK announced that its subsidiary OOO Arctic LNG 3 commenced drilling of the first well at the North-Obskiy license area located in the shallow waters of the Ob Bay. The initial well is drilled using a jack-up floating drilling rig “Amazon” leased from “Gazprom flot”. The drilling process is based on zero discharge principle, whereby all of the waste products are collected and transported 125 km to Sabetta onshore base.
Total has started up production of Kaombo, currently the biggest deep offshore development in Angola, located on Block 32, 260 km off the coast of Luanda.
TWMA has supported Apache on the project since 2013 and this contract award is the latest in a round of contract successes for the company.
The company reported adjusted earnings of US$1.7 billion after tax in 2Q18.
A Low Motion Semisubmersible (LMS) developed by the Keppel-NUS Corporate Laboratory, an industry-university partnership between Keppel Corporation and the National University of Singapore (NUS), has been awarded the Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2018 under the category of Applied Research and Development by The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES).
Trelleborg’s marine systems operation welcomes PIANC’s announcement that it will establish a new Working Group (MarCom WG 211), which will consult with a number of leading fender suppliers, including Trelleborg, with the objective of updating its 2002 Guidelines for the Design of Fender Systems – marking a significant step towards industry-wide fender best practice.
On behalf of BAPCo and Schlumberger, 2H Offshore designed a tripod CSP with boat landing that can support three surface trees with a total work area of just 90 square meters.
The contract covers the project management and engineering, transportation, installation and pre-commissioning of umbilicals and flying leads as well as manifolds.
PJSC "LUKOIL" announces the completion of drilling of the first production well from the wellhead platform at the Yury Korchagin field in the Caspian Sea.
Wellesley Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 925, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 35/12-7 in the North Sea.
The newly formed JV currently offers a full range of support to the oil & gas market in Nigeria and will further extend services into Sub-Saharan Africa.
Since the previous report, the company has added approximately US$405 million in contract backlog.
FES will deploy its Diverless Bend Stiffener Connectors to projects in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Guyana.
The company has grown from 3 to 19 staff recently and is on course to double its headcount by the end of next year.
The firm operational period will now extend to early October 2018.