Offshore news
Petro-Victory provides update on SJ-06 well workover at São João field
Petro-Victory Energy has provided an update on the workover campaign to increase oil production in the 100% owned São João field in the Barreirinhas Basin in Maranhão, Brazil.
DeepOcean awarded frame agreement for subsea infrastructure and cable repair by Equinor
Equinor has awarded ocean services provider DeepOcean a frame agreement for marine services covering subsea intervention and repair contingency for subsea pipelines, structures and high voltage cables for both offshore renewables and oil and gas fields.
MODEC secures FEED for Shell’s Gato do Mato FPSO project in Brazil
MODEC has announced that it has been successful in securing the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) system for Shell do Brasil Ltda (Shell) on the Gato do Mato development, offshore Brazil.
Masirah oil starts multi-well programme in Yumna field
Masirah Oil has announced the spudding of the Yumna-5 well in the offshore Yumna Field in Block 50 Oman. The Yumna-5 well will be drilled at the crest of the structure to drain attic oil left un-swept by the current producers.
Deltic Energy announce completion of Selene farm-out to Dana Petroleum
Deltic Energy has announced that it has received the required regulatory and partner consents in respect of the farm-out of a 25% interest in Licence P2437, containing the Selene Prospect, to Dana Petroleum. The farm-out has therefore completed.
Heads of terms agreed for Block EG-23 offshore Equatorial Guinea
Panoro Energy has announced that it has reached an agreement with the Government of Equatorial Guinea on the key terms and conditions for the award of offshore Block EG-23.
Transocean announces US$195 million ultra-deepwater drillship contract
Transocean has announced a 365-day contract extension for the Deepwater Asgard with an independent operator in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
88 Energy announce oil and gas at discovery well in Alaska
88 Energy has announced successful flow testing of the Upper SFS reservoir in the Company’s Hickory-1 discovery well, located in Project Phoenix on the North Slope of Alaska.
Petrobras carries out scientific expeditions in the Equatorial Margin region
Researchers from Petrobras, the Geological Survey of Brazil (SGB), and 10 universities from the states that make up the geographical region of the Equatorial Margin, as well as two research institutions from the Southeast, has embarked for a scientific expedition on the Hydroceanographic Research Vessel (NPqHo) "Vital de Oliveira," operated by the Brazilian Navy.
Prima Energy announce approval of the revised AAL oilfield plan of development
Special task force for upstream oil and gas business activities (SKK Migas) in collaboration with production sharing contract (PSC) Prima Energy Northwest Natuna Pte. Ltd. (PENN) have concluded discussions on the revision of the plan of development (PoD) I for the Ande-Ande Lumut (AAL) Oil Field.