Offshore news

Barra Energia is leaving the joint venture in which it had a 50% stake.

Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 75 million and 200 million bbl of recoverable oil equivalent.

Weir Oil & Gas Dubai will supply and install 1800 sets of wellheads and trees for PTTEP in the Gulf of Thailand.

The four-month campaign will cover two areas totalling 2800 km2 in the Arabian Sea off the west coast of India.

GE Power Conversion is to supply the motors for the water injection pumps which will equip a future FPSO vessel in Brazil.

Operator Neptune Energy estimates the project will add 2.4 million m3 of oil equivalent (15 million bbl o.e.) from Gjøa.

Gas production has started at the R Cluster, the ultra-deepwater gas field off the east coast of India being developed by Reliance Industries and BP.

Glacier Energy will provide export gas coolers for Total Exploration and Production UK’s North Alwyn Platform, in the North Sea.

Fugro will provide positioning services for an exploration programme in Block 52 in the Guyana-Suriname Basin.

Aker Solutions will carry out the hook-up of the fifth platform on the Johan Sverdrup field.