Offshore & subsea

The four-year contract is valued at about NOK 800 million and includes an option for a one year extension. 

Bibby Offshore has been awarded the contract with a consortium of companies including The Port of Cromarty Firth. The scope of the contract includes the subsea infrastructure associated with the Osprey and Merlin subsea fields and other infrastructure tied back to the Dunlin Alpha Platform.

Effective immediately, the contract is for two years with three one-year extension options, and includes the provision of rigging and scaffolding services on the facility, currently operating in the Pierce field.

Over US$54 billion will be spent on Brazil’s upstream oil & gas capital expenditure to 2020, says GlobalData.

Benthic, a global geosciences company, has secured a contract for an offshore geotechnical investigation in the proposed Azeri Central East platform location in the Caspian.

Three production wells are currently completed, and production is expected to ramp up through 2018.

The company has secured two contracts, comprising work from 2018 through 2020 on the Snorre, Troll, Njord, Åsgard, Bauge, Fenja and Dvalin fields.

The well results will be used to precisely estimate the reserves and plan the development of the discovery, in which PGNiG Upstream Norway holds a 20% interest.

Following consolidation of the former OIS Ltd decommissioning personnel into InterMoor, the decommissioning team have added four further wells to the 128 they have successfully abandoned for Operators in the North Sea since 1996.

International specialist equipment and integrated engineering services company, Sparrows Group, has secured a three-year contract with Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Limited to provide crane management services across its operating assets in the North Sea.

Rockhopper Exploration plc, the oil and gas company with key interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, has provided the following update relating to Sea Lion Phase 1, in the North Falkland Basin (RKH 40% working interest).

Qatar Petroleum entered into an agreement with Total of France to acquire a 25% participating interest in the Exploration Block 11B/12B, offshore South Africa. 

Pre-lay mooring and anchoring solutions to be deployed on Transocean GSP Development Driller 1 rig.

Subsea Technologies Limited has secured ISO 9001:2015 accreditation through Lloyds Register LRQA with no non-conformance issues for the second year running.

These projects will be delivered with a variety of vessels on behalf of customers in the oil and gas, renewables and utilities.