Offshore news

SLB has launched a well integrity assessment solution that helps carbon storage developers quantify the risks associated with wells at prospective storage sites with previous drilling activity.

OPITO has launched a new standard to ensure increased competency and safety around helideck activity, benefiting the global offshore workforce reliant on safe transfers to energy installations in an open sea environment.

OMV (Norge) AS, operator of the PL 1194, has completed the drilling operation in the Norwegian Sea targeting the ‘Haydn/Monn’ exploration prospects.

Chevron, through its subsidiary Chevron Australia New Ventures, has been awarded a greenhouse gas (GHG) assessment permit offshore Western Australia.

Sentinel Subsea has announced the successful installation of WellSentinel™ systems for two significant projects in Australia.

Salunda has signed an agreement with technology services provider Intellilift to increase safety and efficiency in well construction.

INPEX CORPORATION has announced that its subsidiary INPEX Browse E&P Pty Ltd (INPEX Browse) was awarded an exploration permit over release area AC22-1, now named AC/P71 (the Block) in Australia’s 2022 offshore petroleum exploration acreage release. INPEX Browse will be Operator and hold 100% working interest in the title.

PETRONAS, ADNOC and Storegga has announced the signing of a joint study and development agreement (JSDA) to evaluate the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions storage capabilities of saline aquifers and the construction of carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities in the Penyu basin, offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

Valeura Energy has announced first oil production from its Nong Yao C development, in Licence G11/48 (90% operated working interest), offshore Gulf of Thailand.

Kent and the Energy Institute have announced a new collaborative effort to create comprehensive guidelines for decarbonisation economics in greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction projects in the upstream oil and gas industries.