Offshore news

The modifications to the Troll B and C platforms offshore Norway will include installation of equipment for receiving electrical power from shore via cable.

The acquisition phase will continue until April and fast-track data is expected in October 2021.

Production operations at the Johan Sverdrup field and Mongstad terminal will continue as normal.

The contract relates to Carnarvon's Buffalo project offshore Timor-Leste, where the objective is to drill the Buffalo-10 well in the second half of 2021.

ONGC will ramp up gas production from its Krishna Godavari Basin block to about 3-3.5 million m3/d from May, which will be further raised to 8.5 million m3/d in 2022/23 before hitting peak rate in 2024.

The partnership will offer the owners of oil and gas discoveries near Repsol Sinopec’s existing North Sea infrastructure hubs an integrated, technically robust and commercially flexible solution to meet their near to mid-term development objectives.

Norway’s authority on petroleum safety has awarded a contract to Vysus Group for risk consulting services.

The Maersk Intrepid and Maersk Integrator jack-up rigs were retrofitted with Siemens Energy’s BlueVault lithium-ion energy storage system.

The contracts include awards from Saudi Aramco, Chevron and Petronas.

The project for an unnamed company is expected to start in 2Q21 and run for approximately three months.