Offshore news

The charter is with an unnamed, 'leading' E&P company and will entail the servicing of platforms in the Gulf of Thailand.

Apache’s adoption of the Arup Inspect MInteg inspection service on the Beryl Alpha platform has reduced offshore inspection hours of the topside structure whilst enhancing the quality and availability of inspection data.

The regulation provides that exploratory drilling projects in a specific area of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador offshore are excluded from the requirement to undergo a project-specific federal Impact Assessment.

Borr Drilling will now delay delivery of five newbuild jack-up rigs until mid-2022.

Although a FID for the project is on hold, Aker Energy has said it is working actively to confirm the feasibility of a phased field development by executing conceptual studies.

Premier Oil will pay BP a reduced fee of US$210 million for the Andrew Area and Shearwater assets.

The additional work will commence directly after the conclusion of a previously announced contract, and will last approximately two weeks.

The first phase of the exploration period at block 29/11 has been extended to 12 June 2022.

Exploration drilling is anticipated to commence at the Pensacola gas prospect in 2H21 and in 2022 at the Selene gas prospect.

The Semakovskoye field in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area has recoverable gas reserves in excess of 320 billion m3.