Offshore news

The new phase of the project, based on the successful completion of a design study last year, will include the design, build and test of enabling technologies that are the backbone of Upwing’s Magnetic Drive System concept for a reliable and retrievable electric submersible pump.

Efforts to find an additional partner for the drilling of the next well in blocks A2 and A5 are ongoing, with FAR working to conclude a farm-out before the restart of the drilling operations.

The field will be redeveloped by installing a new wellhead platform tied in to the Valhall field centre.

FAR is investigating selling all or part of its interest in the project.

The project saw AISUS perform the inspection of 15 lines within the main caisson tubular structure of the client's platform.

MAN will supply Yinson with four RB-type centrifugal-compressor trains for gas production and export, as well as two screw-compressor trains, which will be put into operation as vapour-recovery units.

LOC will provide marine warranty surveyor services for the SURF development on the Johan Sverdrup oilfield in the North Sea.

Recent media reports have said that Senegal has been forced to delay its first oil and gas projects by up to two years because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The system, initially delivered in the Intervention Riser System (IRS) configuration, provides a 6-3/8 in. through bore and is suitable for all types of well intervention operations up to 15 000 psi and in water depths up to 10 000 ft.

Exploratory drilling has begun at the Shirotno-Rakushechnaya prospect structure, located to the north of the V.I. Grayfer field in the North Caspian Sea.