Offshore news

The Kobra East & Gekko field, located in the Alvheim area of the North Sea, is operated by Aker BP.

SUEZ will provide membranes used in seawater sulfate removal on 15 FPSO platforms operated by Petrobras offshore Brazil.

The added well intervention scope has a firm duration of 31 days, which means that the Maersk Intrepid rig is now contracted until February 2022.

The Bayu-Undan field is one of Timor-Leste's largest gas fields.

The UK Oil and Gas Authority’s 2021 Decommissioning Cost Estimate has revealed steady progress towards a £39 billion by end-2022 target – but makes it clear that the industry must maintain the pace of cost-cutting.

Equinor has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 31/11-1 S, the first exploration well in production licence 785 S.

Woodside has also said the Ocean BlackRhino drillship is due to begin development drilling at the Sangomar project offshore Senegal next week.

The contract will be TechnipFMC’s first EPCI project with Tullow Ghana.

Preliminary estimates place the potential of the Eban–Akoma complex between 500 and 700 million boe in place.

Panthera Solutions, a joint venture partnership between Guyana’s Farfan & Mendes and Canada’s Crosbie, is working with 3t Energy Group’s training division AIS Survivex to upskill its Guyanese personnel with internationally recognised offshore qualifications.