Offshore & subsea

The contracts are with Rex International Holding and Duta Marine Sdn Bhd for the Rhu-Ara and Diwangsa clusters offshore peninsular Malaysia.

The Timi development features Shell's first wellhead platform in Malaysia powered by a solar and wind hybrid renewable power system.

Recoverable volumes from Troll phase 3, which will produce the Troll West gas cap, are estimated at as much as 347 billion m3 of gas.

INEOS acquires 61.5% of the Syd Arne oilfield, currently operated by Hess, which complements the 36.8% share INEOS already holds in the field. INEOS will also acquire 4.8% of the Solsort field, which is already operated by INEOS.

The work is expected to commence in the first half of 2022 in direct continuation of the semi-submersible rig Maersk Discoverer’s contract with Shell Trinidad.

Yinson and Enauta are aiming to complete negotiations on the supply and charter of a FPSO unit by 2Q22.

Once delivered from the shipyard, the Deepwater Atlas is expected to commence operations at the Shenandoah project in 3Q22, with the initial drilling programme expected to last approximately 255 days.

The Noble Roger Lewis, Noble Scott Marks, Noble Joe Knight, and Noble Johnny Whitstine are to be sold and the current drilling contracts novated to ADES.

According to Vaalco, compared to the current FPSO solution the Cap Diamant FSO will reduce storage and offloading costs at the Etame field offshore Gabon by almost 50%, as well as lower total operating costs by approximately 17% to 20% through to 2030.

The Grove North East development well (49/10a-G7) encountered carboniferous reservoir units at the target depth, with around 250 ft (gross) gas-bearing B & C sandstones present.

The wellhead platform will be an unmanned installation, located in 90 m water over the Dorado oil and gas field in the Bedout Sub-basin.

The overall aim is to increase production and extend the lifetime of the Valhall wells by reducing scaling caused by sulfate.

The TCP Flowline and Riser joint industry project will see Strohm develop, qualify and test its composite pipe technology with the two operators to make it fully field-proven and commercially available to the oil and gas industry.

The discovery of the Hibiscus North exploration well (DHBNM-1) in the Dussafu Block, offshore Gabon, will add to the gross discovered recoverable resource estimate for the block, which is currently estimated to be approximately 105 million barrels gross.

The FPSO Carioca has started producing oil and natural gas from the field, located in the Santos Basin.