Offshore news

Nucore Group has been awarded contracts to provide heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration maintenance, as well as fire safety services, to operators in the North Sea.

The order of four pumps from VWS Westgarth, which supplies and operates sulfate reduction membrane systems, was for chemically enhanced backwash pumps to be installed aboard two FPSO vessels operated by Petrobas off the coast of Brazil.

The Neptune-operated Dugong discovery, in Production Licence 882, was one of the largest discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in 2020.

Fugro has been awarded multiple contracts by Eni Angola to carry out geotechnical and environmental surveys off the coast of Angola between now and May.

Work on the contract consists of two offshore production deck modules and associated pipeline and subsea cables in Saudi Aramco’s Marjan field.

The companies applying for production licenses in the 25th licensing round on the Norwegian shelf include Shell, Equinor and OMV.

The first scope of a five-year contract will see TWMA provide drilling waste management services on the harsh-environment jack-up rig Maersk Resolve as Spirit Energy drills the Grove North East well in the Southern Sector of the North Sea.

SBM Offshore has signed a letter of intent (LOI) together with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for a 26.25-year lease and operate contract for the FPSO Almirante Tamandaré in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The contract covers the development of 10 deepwater wells and their tieback to the Limbayong FPSO unit in Malaysia.

The sale to HitecVision, through its wholly owned portfolio company NEO Energy, covers most of ExxonMobil’s non-operated upstream assets in the United Kingdom central and northern North Sea.