Offshore & subsea

MacGregor’s offloading systems will play a critical role in ensuring the safe and efficient discharge of oil from the FPSO to a shuttle tanker.

EM&I has proven a diverless method for blanking sea chests without the use of divers using an ‘intelligent’ motorised wire guided blanking plate.

The new multimodal supercentre has been built together with Baker Hughes’ existing completion warehouse and liquid mud and completion fluids plant, providing full support to customers in Guyana and Suriname.

The contract supports a 270-day campaign on the installations and will start in March 2022, creating 300 fixed-term positions.

The company's Aberdeen office has been given funding for full pre-production testing of its pseudo dry gas liquid removal system.

Production at the Liza Unity FPSO vessel is expected to reach its target of 220 000 barrels of oil later this year.

Start-up is expected during 2Q22 and the project will run for approximately 1 month.

The project, in support of India's licence round schedule, encompasses over 250 000-line km of existing 2D data across an area of over half a million km2 offshore India's east coast.

TotalEnergies will resign as operator of the North Platte deepwater project in the US Gulf of Mexico.

The Noble Tom Prosser jack-up drilling rig has completed the move to the Pavo-1 well location offshore Western Australia and has concluded the jack-down and other pre-drill operations.

Petrobras’ geophysical processing team will have access to a full range of geophysical processing tools, including time, depth, multicomponent, time-lapse 4D processing and advanced imaging offered by the Shearwater Reveal software platform.

The organisation will provide resident focal points, onshore engineering, process and maintenance services on North Sea platform, Bruce.

Petrofac has been awarded two new contracts with Cairn Oil & Gas, Vedanta Ltd.

It is anticipated that further exploration activity, including a second exploration well, will be required to determine the size and recoverable potential of the identified hydrocarbons at the Graff-1 deepwater exploration well.

Drilling is expected to commence within the next week after allowing for towing and set up.