Offshore & subsea

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and BP have announced that they are moving forward to develop already-discovered deepwater gas fields, bringing new gas production for India.

the Layang Field is located approximately 7 km east of the producing Helang Gas Field in Block SK10.

Sparrows Group and INNOVO have deployed a new electric drive 700 Te multi-reel drive system for the first time. Sparrows was hired by a global energy services provider to deliver the system and personnel for an umbilical laying operation off the coast of Trinidad.

OvationData Limited has announced the extension of its current trace management service agreement with PGS to 2023.

TechnipFMC has secured an extension to its ongoing EPC contract from Statoil for work in the Norwegian North Sea.

In combination with the VOSSRing preassembly studs, VOSSRingM also meets the highest demands placed on assembly reliability and leak prevention.

The well is to be drilled in a prospect named Carmen in block 6507/8 at Haltenbanken. The site is 222 km west of Brønnøysund in Nordland county and 10 km north-east of Heidrun.

Maersk Invincible is being supplied with electricity through the Valhall field. It is probably the first time ever a drilling rig is being powered fully from shore.

AWE Limited, the operator of Production Licences L1/L2 in the northern Perth Basin, Western Australia, today announced that the Joint Venture partners have agreed to commence the design competition phase of FEED for Stage 2 of the Waitsia Gas Project.

Statoil has signed a swap agreement with BP and has been granted regulatory approval to take over two exploration permits and extend its work program in the Great Australian Bight.

UTEC has been awarded a contract with world leading subsea construction company Saipem to support its operations as part of the Zohr Field Development Project.

Aquaterra Energy has designed, fabricated and installed a new Sea Swift platform for PICO Petroleum Integrated Services, the lead contractor for Amal Petroleum Company’s (AMAPETCO) Amal field in the Gulf of Suez, offshore Egypt.

With a maiden voyage that takes her to the deep waters of Ireland’s Atlantic margin and the far North of the Barents Sea, Fugro Venturer is the newest of Fugro’s purpose-designed, standardised survey vessels, originally formulated in 2013.

McDermott International, Inc. has announced that it has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract from BP Trinidad & Tobago, LLC (bpTT) for the Angelin gas field, located 25 miles (40 km) off the east coast of Trinidad and Tobago.

The DAV MX™ circulating sub from Churchill Drilling Tools, an oilfield service company specialising in drilling innovation, has been used to significantly cut process time and costs for two challenging deepwater cementing operations, without compromising string functionality.