Offshore & subsea

Valaris has been awarded two one-well contracts by Murphy Oil Corp. for semisubmersible VALARIS DPS-5.

The results of the appraisal well in the Green Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico further define the resource potential in the central Winterfell area, with the current estimate around 100 million barrels gross.

The extended PRM imaging contract will run from 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024.

The drilling offshore Shimane and Yamaguchi prefectures is planned to take place from March to July 2022.

Wintershall Dea holds participating interests in a total of nine exploration licences in Brazil, spread over the Potiguar, Ceará, Campos and Santos basins.

Lundin Energy has drilled a dry well about 72 km east of the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea.

The jack-up rig Maersk Reacher is to be replaced by the low-emission jack-up rig Maersk Integrator offshore Norway end-February/early March 2022.

TotalEnergies and Inpex have sold Angola Block 14 B.V. to the Angolan company Somoil.

Demand for shuttle tankers in countries with robust offshore oil production and limited pipeline infrastructure is set to grow continuously in the coming years, a Rystad Energy report shows.

TotalEnergies E&P Suriname, Suriname Branch has added the drilling of one additional well in Block 58 offshore Suriname to the work scope of the drillship Maersk Valiant.

The contract covers a high-pressure, high-temperature subsea production system and associated equipment for a brownfield tieback in the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

The first two wells of Beach Energy's offshore Otway Basin campaign have been connected to the Otway Gas Plant and are now delivering gas into Australia's East Coast market.

The revision will result in an impairment in the region of US$1.8 billion.

McDermott has been contracted for EPCIC services for a Floating Production Unit at Woodside's Scarborough project. The company will also deliver EPCI for the North Field East Topsides and the North Field East Offshore Pipelines and Subsea Cables projects offshore Qatar.

The contracts are for work on the Scarborough project offshore Australia and the Yellowtail development offshore Guyana.