Offshore & subsea

African Petroleum has provided an update regarding its licence interests in The Gambia and Senegal, West Africa.

The Leviathan 5 Well is expected to be completed soon, after reaching the final depth planned and verification of the existence of natural gas in three layers of the Leviathan reservoir (Sands A, B and C).

The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility–Ichthys Venturer–safely sailed away from waters near its construction site in Okpo, South Korea en route to Australia.

MRC Global Norway AS is set to provide high alloy valves, manifolds, fittings, tubing, enclosures, tube clamps and other items for Statoil’s Johan Castberg project.

Independent Oil and Gas plc has announced that it has submitted the Field Development Plan to the UK Oil and Gas Authority for the Blythe Hub, which comprises the Blythe and Elgood fields.

Horizon Oil is pleased to advise that it has increased to about 28% its interest in the total certified resources contained in Papua New Guinea’s Western Foreland fields of 2.0 - 2.5 tcf gas and 60 - 70 million bbls of condensate.

Scope of contract includes longest subsea multiphase boosting tieback in the UK North Sea.

Pan Petroleum Gabon B.V., one of Panoro Energy ASA’s subsidiaries, has approved the operator’s proposed work programme and budget to move forward with the development of the Dussafu oilfields.

Subject to regulatory approval, JDR Cable Systems is set to be acquired by TELE-FONIKA Kable.

Nature Group, the oil, gas and maritime waste collection and treatment company, has secured a five-year contract with Maersk Oil in the Central North Sea.

Providence Resources has provided an update on Licencing Option 16/27 in the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 7220/11-4 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.

The discovery was made in the Blåmann well, between the Snøhvit and Goliat fields in the Barents Sea. Recoverable volumes are estimated at 2 - 3 billion standard m3, approximately 10 - 20 million boe.

Westwood Global Energy Group, the energy market research consultancy, has released new statistics for exploration in the Asia-Pacific region which show that green shoots of recovery are starting to appear.

Exxon Mobil Corporation has signed a production-sharing contract for Block 59 in Suriname with Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V.