Offshore news
Island Offshore awarded contracts for platform supply vessels
The two LNG-fuelled PSVs Island Crusader and Island Contender, as well as a third sister vessel Island Commander, have ben contracted by Lundin Norway.
Joint project developing carbon-free subsea AUVs
Ocean Power Technologies, Modus Seabed Intervention and Saab Seaeye are developing an autonomous resident AUV system.
Licensing in 2020/21 suspended by UK Oil and Gas Authority
The UK Oil and Gas Authority has halted its licensing rounds for offshore exploration acreage in the North Sea at least until next year.
Equinor employee at Martin Linge field tests positive for Covid-19
The employee had recently been to Austria and is not seriously ill.
First oil expected at Evelyn field by 2022
Tailwind Energy will make a final investment decision on the Evelyn field, in the central North Sea, in 2020.
Sole gas field begins producing to processing plant
The Sole gas project has passed a critical milestone with the first flow of gas from the Sole gas field to the Orbost gas processing plant.
Production resumes at Cliff Head in Perth Basin
Production had been suspended at the Cliff Head Alpha Platform offshore Western Australia due to an electrical fault.
Equinor granted drilling permit for North Sea well
Well 35/10-5 will be drilled from the West Hercules drilling facility.
TechnipFMC awarded EPCI contract for BP's Platina field
The contract covers the development of the Platina field, located offshore Angola in Block 18.
Esso Australia drilling gas wells in West Barracouta
The company anticipates West Barracouta gas flowing to the Australian domestic gas market by early 2021.