Offshore & subsea

XWI has now been run on the Chevron-operated Jansz field, a gas-filled structure 250 km off the coast of North West Australia.

Subsea 7 announced the award of a contract by Shell for the Penguins Redevelopment Project, located approximately 150 miles north-east of the Shetland Islands. 

Petrofac has secured a two-year contract extension on Eni UK Limited’s Liverpool Bay Development, valued in the region of US$65 million.

With first oil scheduled for 2022, the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea has a production horizon of 30 years.

Reliance Industries’ recent move to invite bids for provision of an FPSO for its MJ gas and condensate field stands as the latest example of deepwater projects that are fuelling a revival of activity in India, a Rystad Energy study reflects.

The discovery is currently estimated to contain 15 - 35 million bbls of recoverable oil equivalent.

The Royal Family are amongst a range of north-east dignitaries and organisations who have given their blessing for the four new super-quays at Aberdeen’s £350 million South Harbour to be named after some of the most iconic castles in Scotland.

Umbilicals International (UI) has opened its doors to a new manufacturing facility in Rosyth, heralding the move as purposeful and optimistic during tough market recovery.

The contract includes the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) of the Pluto Water Handling Module.

Marine and offshore safety equipment specialist Dräger Safety UK is organising the event in Aberdeen, UK, on 14 June.

After initial preparations, the actual installation job took only three hours and was achieved in one single lift.

Well re-entry and completion operations for the Lancaster EPS have now commenced under the control of Petrofac Facilities Management Limited (Petrofac), who are the well operator.

Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to drill appraisal well 6608/10-18 in production licence 128 D in the Norwegian Sea.

Shell is the operator for production licence 373 S in the North Sea.

Offshore Technical Compliance (OTC), the industry leader in compliance related services, has promoted Nicole Hartzheim to director of business development for OTC and OTC Solutions.