North Sea oil news

Production optimisation company, Enpro Subsea, has reported its busiest 18 months hitting its key strategic objectives with campaigns completed or commencing in North Sea, West Africa and Gulf of Mexico.

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited (‘BP’) has exercised the one-month option to extend the charter of the Safe Caledonia. Total value of the option is US$2.4 million.

TWMA has supported Apache on the project since 2013 and this contract award is the latest in a round of contract successes for the company.

Wellesley Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 925, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 35/12-7 in the North Sea.

FES will deploy its Diverless Bend Stiffener Connectors to projects in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Guyana.

The firm operational period will now extend to early October 2018.

The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Equinor consent to use the Martin Linge B facility as storage vessel on the Martin Linge field.

Wintershall as the operator of Nova has decided to develop the field with two subsea modules tied back to the Gjøa platform, which is operated by Neptune Energy.

A total of 1766 blocks of open acreage is now available across the West of Scotland, the East Shetland Platform, the Mid North Sea High, South West Britain and parts of the English Channel.

A/S Norske Shell, operator of production licence 373S, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 34/5-2 S. The well is dry.