Offshore & subsea

On 15 May, the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea was officially opened by the minister of petroleum and energy, Terje Aasland.

Well 6406/5-2 S encountered a gas/condensate column of about 24 m in the Garn Formation, 46 m of which was a sandstone reservoir with poor to moderate reservoir properties.

The company has announced the award of a contract for a two-phase subsea development.

The company has announced that the Transocean Equinox was awarded a five-well contract in Australia by a major operator, representing approximately US$137 million in firm backlog.

The company has awarded a contract for subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) to TechnipFMC, and a sales and purchase agreement (SPA) for the delivery of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit to MODEC Inc.

Luiz Hayum, Senior Research Analyst, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa Upstream Oil and Gas, said “The BM-C-33 is Equinor’s second FID in a long list of justified for development deepwater projects outside Norway.”

“With Wintershall Dea’s first operated exploration well drilled in Mexico, the announced expected resource of 200 to 300 million boe of oil and gas in place outperforms the original prospective resource estimated at 196 million boe”, said Adrian Lara, Principal Research Analyst Latin America Upstream Oil and Gas.

The company has announced an award by LLOG Exploration Offshore, LLC as project manager for the Salamanca development project, which includes the Leon and Castile fields, in the US Gulf of Mexico.

The company has announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide Chevron Mediterranean Limited (CML) with an order of TC2 and TC16 Connection Systems.

SBM Offshore has signed a 10-year Operations and Maintenance Enabling Agreement with Esso Exploration & Production Guyana Ltd for the operations and maintenance of FPSOs Liza Destiny, Liza Unity, Prosperity and ONE GUYANA.

The company and its partners, Vår Energi, Sval Energi and DNO, have announced that production has commenced from the Fenja oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea.

ChampionX Corporation’s asset integrity programme in the Greater Ekofisk Area in Norway has earned the company an award.

The company has announced that it is working with TotalEnergies to implement a robot fleet management system, driving autonomous operations for its offshore platforms.

The well was drilled about 5 km west of the Gudrun field in the North Sea, and about 230 km west of Stavanger.

A permanent, gas-tight seal was required for a well with a 36” OD that was experiencing gas migration.