Offshore news
Petrobras begins well testing in Albacora field
Petrobras has started well testing of the Forno area in the Albacora field, located in the Campos Basin pre-salt.
Shearwater to carry out North Sea 4D survey for Apache
The survey will be carried out in the Forties field by the Amazon Warrior.
Equinor drills dry well near Fram field
Well 35/10-6, in production licence 827 S, has been permanently plugged and abandoned.
Aquaterra Energy awarded FEED contract for platform offshore Trinidad and Tobago
Aquaterra Energy will design a new single well conductor supported platform for DeNovo Energy, to be located in the Zandolie field.
SBM Offshore has five hulls currently ordered under Fast4Ward programme
Under the company’s Fast4Ward programme the total number of hulls ordered to date stands at five, with three allocated to projects.
Bureau Veritas formalises guidelines for operating FPSOs and FPUs in Brazil
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.
TDI-Brooks completes multibeam phase offshore Nigeria
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 books £9.2 billion impairment
Petrobras is revising all exploration and production projects as a result of its new oil pricing assumptions.
OGUK publishes guidelines for optimising existing North Sea assets
The guidelines aim to help companies understand good practice in how to identify, rank, approve and carry out opportunities to optimise production.
Aquatec deploys pressure monitoring loggers in North Sea
The company recently engineered a pair of ROV-deployable magnetic mounts to allow the loggers to be mounted directly onto subsea cross braces on a platform at two separate depths.