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Oceaneering is to provide comprehensive riserless light well intervention services offshore Angola in Blocks 18 and 31.

Alligin forms part of the Greater Schiehallion Area and has been developed as a two-well subsea tieback into the existing Schiehallion and Loyal subsea infrastructure and the Glen Lyon floating, production, storage, offload (FPSO) vessel.

Eni and Total won operator rights to blocks 28 and 29 respectively in the offshore Namibe basin, while Angola’s state oil company Sonangol and Equinor and BP were awarded smaller stakes.

The assets to be sold by BP include its interests in the Andrew area in the central UK North Sea and its non-operating interest in the Shearwater field.

The contract for the semi-submersible rig Maersk Discoverer has an estimated duration of 322 days and is expected to commence in July 2020.

Three appraisal wells drilled this year, GTA-1, Yakaar-2 and Orca-1, targeted a total of nine hydrocarbon-bearing zones. The wells encountered gas in high quality reservoirs in all nine zones.

The three-year contract will support both onshore and offshore activity for BP operated projects in the Caspian Sea area including Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG), Shah Deniz, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC), South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) and Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP).

The contract will see Aker Solutions deliver front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the first platform in a potential series of future assets within BP’s Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) portfolio.

LOC Egypt has been awarded a two-year marine assurance and inspection contract by BP Egypt.

The company’s latest research reveals that the West of Shetland (WoS) area retains the attention of major exploration and production (E&P) players in the region.