Offshore & subsea

Varying in duration from 18 months to 3 years, the contracts have a combined high six-figure value.

SPIE Oil & Gas Services will provide Process Automation Systems integration services for its subsea gas compression system for the Jansz-Io field, offshore Western Australia.

The company has signed deals including a 12-month production chemistry agreement with a North Sea FPSO operator worth a seven-figure sum, a chemical testing project for Vedanta (Cairn India) in India and a water injectivity study for SNEPCO, the operating arm of Shell in Nigeria.

The contract will be delivered by around 120 Wood employees across the offshore and onshore assets including the Clipper and Leman offshore assets, Bacton Gas Terminal, Kroonborg and Kasteelborg vessels and the Seafox4 barge campaign.

Tracerco will deploy Discovery, a subsea CT scanner designed for external scanning of pipelines, for an unnamed operator.

The discovery well Kenli 10-2-4 was drilled and completed at a depth of 1520 m, and encountered oil pay zones with a total thickness of approximately 27 m.

The company continues to forecast that average production for the year is expected to remain within the range of 8500 - 10 500 bpd.

Lukoil has acquired a 25% participating interest in the Shallow Water Absheron Peninsula exploration project.

Appraisal drilling at Keskesi South-1 on Block 58 offshore Suriname encountered non-commercial quantities of hydrocarbons.

Can engineering evolution still offer the solution to new technical challenges offshore? Adapting existing technologies to overcome problems and secure better results has long been a feature of the offshore oil & gas industry. And, says Aquaterra Energy’s Innovation Director Ben Cannell, change should still be a constant for service companies pursuing sustainable success.

The newly acquired data provides 3D data coverage to complement the existing 2D grid, enhancing geological and geophysical insights to explorers offshore Newfoundland.

A Petronas project and resulting SPE paper shows how combining human factors training with technical training can significantly improve the performance of drilling crews and reduce human error.

The Phase 2 project is expected to increase output at one of the largest fields in the Gulf of Mexico, with peak annual average gross production of 25 000 boe/d from the initial two well tieback.

The well, offshore Australia, delivered an initial rate, after clean-up, approaching 10 000 bpd and following a period of well performance testing will be stabilised at around 3000 bpd.

The Frosk field, located approximately 25 km southwest of the Alvheim FPSO in the North Sea, will be tied back to the FPSO via the existing Bøyla and Alvheim subsea infrastructure.