Offshore & subsea

PetroVietnam Technical Services Corp. has been contracted to provide EPCIC services for the Gallaf Batch 3 Project, the next development phase of the Al-Shaheen oilfield located offshore Qatar.

The 437 km2 survey will be acquired in the NOAKA area, between Oseberg and Alvheim in the Norwegian North Sea.

Seismic processing tenders have been issued and, following review, a contract will be awarded shortly.

The East Cendor field in Block PM304, operated by Petrofac and located 140 km offshore Peninsular Malaysia, achieved its first oil production on 23 June 2021.

The Oil & Gas Authority’s UKCS Energy Integration Report last year calculated that electrification could abate UKCS oil and gas operational emissions by 2 – 3 Mt CO2 per year by 2030.

Sapakara South in Block 58 encountered 30 m of net pay of oil, in a good quality Campano-Maastrichtian reservoir.

Operator Neptune Energy estimates the reserves at the Duva field in the Norwegian North Sea to be approximately 11 million m3 of oil equivalent.

PETRONAS Carigali, Shell and PETROS EP have been awarded Block SK437 offshore Sarawak.

Production operations have resumed following the Aoka Mizu FPSO's scheduled annual maintenance shutdown.

The Whiptail-1 well encountered 246 ft (75 m) of net pay in high-quality oil bearing sandstone reservoirs.

The systems will be manufactured at FET’s UK facility at Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, UK, and will be delivered in the second half of 2021.

FPSO Almirante Tamandaré will be deployed at the Búzios field in the Santos Basin, approximately 180 km offshore Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

The Tornado Attic well is currently producing above the previously estimated 8 - 10 000 boe/d range, according to the company.

The newly fabricated topsides and bridges will replace the ageing facilities at TotalEnergies' Tyra field in the Danish North Sea.

The Whale development, owned by Shell Offshore Inc. and Chevron U.S.A. Inc., is expected to reach peak production of approximately 100 000 boe/d and currently has an estimated, recoverable resource volume of 490 million boe.