Offshore news

The company has announced a continuation of its ultra-long offset ocean-bottom node (OBN) acquisition in the US Gulf of Mexico.

The company has announced today that the ultra-deepwater drillship, Deepwater Asgard, received two contract awards in the US Gulf of Mexico for a total of approximately 14 months of work, adding US$181 million in firm backlog.

Rosmari-Marjoram fields are situated 220 km off the coast of Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia and will be powered by renewable energy, using solar power for the offshore platform.

More than 114 000 t of topsides and jackets are to be removed and recycled as part of the largest single offshore UKCS decommissioning contract scope to date.

Neptune Energy and its partners have announced a new commercial discovery at the Ofelia exploration well (PL 929), close to the Gjøa field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

Brüel & Kjær Vibro products have already been installed on 22 offshore platforms in the UK and Norwegian continental shelves since 1995, as well as many other platforms worldwide. The most recent in the UK continental shelf are the Lomond, North Everest and Armada platforms.

Errai could store 4-8 million t of CO2 annually, with the potential to store more in later phases. The project includes an onshore terminal for intermediate storage, with the intention to permanently store the CO2 in an offshore reservoir.

The companies have agreed on the main commercial terms to transport CO2 captured from Yara Sluiskil, an ammonia and fertiliser plant in the Netherlands, and permanently store it under the seabed off the coast of Norway.

Australia’s oil and gas industry says new offshore acreage to explore for carbon capture and storage opportunities as well as areas for petroleum exploration will support efforts to lower emissions and ensure continued energy security.

A significant gas discovery has been made at the Cronos-1 well, in Block 6, offshore Cyprus. This discovery follows the Calypso-1 discovery made on the same Block in 2018.