Offshore news

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.

The guidelines aim to help companies understand good practice in how to identify, rank, approve and carry out opportunities to optimise production.

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.

The 2020 Somali licensing round – launched virtually due to Covid-19 – features up to 7 blocks up for bidding.

In collaboration with Marathon Oil Corp and EG LNG, the country's Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons has awarded a contract for the development of a gas master plan to British company Gas Strategies.

The study for JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp. will assess options for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), alongside blue hydrogen production relating to oil and gas fields in South East Asia.

Premier Oil has said first gas from its Tolmount project is now expected in 2Q21.

The drilling programme for well 7321/8-2 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 719.