Offshore & subsea

Partnership approach secures work with major UK oil and gas operator.

Pandion Energy AS has announced that it has been pre-qualified as licensee on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

A/S Norske Shell has received consent to remove the emergency response vessel from the Knarr field.

The Riser Platform (RP) jacket for the Johan Sverdrup development will be ready for delivery in July and was given the name Ægir at a ceremony held at Kvaerner’s yard at Verdal.

UK-based subsea company Rovco has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Dr Iain Wallace as chief technology officer (CTO).

The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s Central Processing Facility (CPF) has been safely moored in the Ichthys Field, some 220 km off the north coast of Western Australia, where she will be located for 40 years.

The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), with the support of Aqualis Offshore, has matched its own pre-monsoon rig move record set last year offshore India. Aqualis Offshore has also secured a new contract extension to support ONGC.

ION Geophysical Corporation has announced a new 2D multi-client programme offshore Gabon, EquatorSPAN™ II, in cooperation with the Gabon Ministry of Petroleum and Hydrocarbons, Direction Général des Hydrocarbures of Gabon (DGH).

The suspension of operations is due to longstanding delays in the bare-boat charter payments due to Bumi Armada, as well as irregular payments on the operations and maintenance contract.

Under these contracts, SBM Offshore will construct, install, lease and operate a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO).

John Crane Asset Management Solutions has secured a three year contract to provide condition-based maintenance services in the North Sea.

DNV GL has won a major contract to provide independent verification services for the Maersk Oil redevelopment of the Tyra Field, offshore Denmark.

A southern North Sea operator has awarded Claxton a combined services contract to riglessly casing cut and recover a total of seven wells.

Aquaterra Energy has been awarded a contract to supply subsea high pressure riser equipment and services for a subsea abandonment project in the central North Sea.

Well 7325/4-1 is in the Hoop area in the Barents Sea, around 275 km from Nordkapp and 200 km from Bjørnøya (Bear Island).