Offshore news

Subsea7 S.A. has announced the award of a sizeable contract by Dana Petroleum (E&P) Limited, for the Bittern field development, located approximately 190 km east of Aberdeen in the UK Central North Sea, at a water depth of 90 m.

The Hydrocarbon vertical (L&T Energy) of Larsen & Toubro has secured an order from the Oil & Natural Gas Corporation for Daman Upside Development Project-Wellhead Platforms & Pipelines (DUDP-WP), off India’s west coast.

The company has announced that its sensing and monitoring business line, marketed under the Sercel brand, has made a sale of its Marlin vessel monitoring and alert system to ExxonMobil Guyana Ltd. to support its offshore operations in Guyana.

PETRONAS, through Malaysia Petroleum Management (MPM) has awarded a late life asset production sharing contract (LLA PSC) for Banang field, located offshore Peninsular Malaysia to Petra Energy Development Sdn. Bhd. (PEDSB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Petra Energy Berhad.

Triangle Energy Global has advised that preparatory works by the L7 Joint Venture with Strike Energy and New Zealand Oil and Gas to drill the Booth-1 well in the North Perth Basin are nearing completion and all regulatory approvals have been received.

Aker Solutions has secured a sizeablelong term frame agreement with Azule Energy to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services (EPC) for brownfield projects and modifications for two FPSOs in Angola.

The Zama Unit partners Wintershall Dea, Pemex (operator), Talos Energy and Harbour Energy have awarded the front-end engineering and design contract (FEED) for the development of the Zama oil field to the French engineering company DORIS.

Baker Hughes has announced a significant order from Petrobras for workover and plug and abandonment (P&A) services in pre-salt and post-salt fields offshore Brazil.

Shelf Drilling has announced that it has secured a 15-month award for the Shelf Drilling Tenacious jack-up rig for drilling operations offshore West Africa.

Removing the ban on petroleum exploration beyond onshore Taranaki is part of a suite of proposed amendments to the Crown Minerals Act to deal with the energy security challenges posed by rapidly declining natural gas reserves, Resources Minister Shane Jones says.