Offshore news

The three surveys will cover approximately 10 000 km2 offshore Labrador and Newfoundland, Canada.

Qatar Petroleum has entered into a farm-in agreement with Total to acquire a 45% participating interest in blocks CI-705 and CI-706, located in the Ivorian-Tano Basin.

Petrobras has started well testing of the Forno area in the Albacora field, located in the Campos Basin pre-salt.

The survey will be carried out in the Forties field by the Amazon Warrior.

Well 35/10-6, in production licence 827 S, has been permanently plugged and abandoned.

Aquaterra Energy will design a new single well conductor supported platform for DeNovo Energy, to be located in the Zandolie field.

Under the company’s Fast4Ward programme the total number of hulls ordered to date stands at five, with three allocated to projects.

The new class notation IVBS-BRA developed by Bureau Veritas will help clients to demonstrate compliance with Brazilian regulations for operating FPSOs and FPUs in the country's deepwaters.

The survey took place in water depths of 750 to 3500 m and is Nigeria’s first regional multi-client multibeam and seafloor sampling (MB&SS) study.

Petrobras is revising all exploration and production projects as a result of its new oil pricing assumptions.