Offshore news

The drillship Maersk Viking will be employed to drill an ultra-deepwater exploration well in Block F13 offshore Gabon.

The partnership will see Gregg Drilling mobilise its seabed drills onto Ocean Infinity's Armada fleet of uncrewed and optionally crewed vessels.

Taurob and Equinor are partnering up to introduce autonomous ATEX-certified robots to Equinor's oil and gas installations offshore Norway.

Once online at BP's US$9 billion Mad Dog 2 project, Argos, a semi-submersible, floating production platform, will be the company’s fifth operated platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Located in Abu Dhabi and Qatar, the contracts incorporate a wide range of recurring brownfield riser analysis projects, with future greenfield opportunities.

The extension, awarded eight months ahead of the renewal date, takes Petrofac’s contract for operations, maintenance, engineering and construction support for NEO Energy’s UK activities, through to December 2022.

The eight-year contract with the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate will see Halliburton deploy and operate Diskos, Norway's national repository of seismic, well and production data.

The agreement will see an array of torque tools, control systems and associated peripherals from the subsea control systems specialist made available to customers through Ashtead Technology’s nine customer service hubs.

The company is reprocessing the Kyranis 3D seismic survey, which covers blocks in current exploration license rounds offshore Timor-Leste and Australia.

The company has spudded the Elgood development well, 48/22c-H1, located in the UK North Sea.