Offshore & subsea

ION has delivered a regional framework consisting of approximately 30 000 km of data over the Austral and Malvinas basins' relatively under-explored petroleum region.

Blocks C22, C17 and C14 are located an average of 124 miles, or 200 km, offshore Mauritania. Together they measure nearly 8.4 million acres in water depths ranging from 3300 ft to 11 500 ft, or 1000 m to more than 3500 m.

The company will supply the subsea production system and design the topside of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility, which will be the largest-ever of its kind offshore Norway.

Industry body urges organisations to step forward with game changing technologies.

FES International has recently completed three successful initiatives in the Gulf of Mexico, including the supply of equipment to the Santa Cruz field, the Blind Faith 2 Project and to Technip for the Tahiti Vertical Extension (TVEX) project.

Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University (RGU) has launched a state-of-the-art decommissioning simulator to service the growing sector.

The announcement follows regulatory approval for Acteon to acquire Viking Seatech while selling Mirage Machines to Actuant, a US corporation.

Maersk Oil has announced that the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) has approved an investment of approximately 21 billion DKK in the full redevelopment of the Tyra gas field.

The Icemann gangway system has reached a milestone 10 000 transfers since its arrival in Eastern Russia to transfer personnel working on offshore platforms under the Sakhalin-2 project.

Otto Energy Limited has announced that the Ensco 68 independent leg jack-up drilling rig arrived on location at South Marsh Island Block 71 and is now pre-loaded and jacked up to working height over the SM 71 F platform.

Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 533, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat wells 7219/12-2 S and 7219/12-2 A.

The Tetra Hedronderrick barge has de-mobilised off location after successfully placing the jacket and decks over the SM 71 F1 well (drilled in 2016) and securing the structure with pilings.

Transocean Norway Operations AS with the drilling rig Transocean Arctic is awarded the contract to drill production wells at the Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea.

Bob Ruddiman, Head of Oil and Gas at legal firm Pinsent Masons, welcomed Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Budget concessions on Transferable Tax Histories for North Sea oil and gas operators.

FAR has undertaken a detailed geotechnical evaluation for its two offshore blocks in The Gambia and completed an assessment of hydrocarbon resources.