Offshore news

Ironbark-1 will test the giant Ironbark gas prospect, which has a best estimate of 15 trillion ft3 prospective recoverable gas resource.

Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 0.5 and 1.6 million m3 of recoverable oil equivalent.

EM&I is planning to show the latest developments in its NoMan remote inspection system on a full-size section of a typical FPSO tank between the 9 and 11 December 2020.

MODEC has commissioned MAN Energy Solutions to supply a total of five radial compressor and two screw compressor trains for the largest FPSO vessel to ever be delivered to Brazil.

Two wells at the Cappahayden and Cambriol prospects, drilled this summer in the Flemish Pass Basin, have proven the presence of hydrocarbons.

Petrobras has agreed to purchase the FPSO P-71, currently under construction, for US$353 million.

Impact has acquired ExxonMobil and Equinor's interests in the Transkei & Algoa Exploration Right and the Tugela South Exploration Right, offshore South Africa.

The November/December issue of Oilfield Technology begins by reviewing the state of the North Sea. The issue then moves on to cover Drilling Technologies, Deepwater Operations, Flow Control, and more.

Wintershall Dea has begun drilling the first of six wells on the operated Nova field in the Norwegian North Sea.

Drilling at the Luiperd well has encountered 73 m of net gas condensate pay in well-developed good quality Lower Cretaceous reservoirs.