Offshore news
Subsea 7 awarded contracts in Australia and US Gulf of Mexico
The company has been awarded contracts by ConocoPhillips Australia Barossa and Murphy Exploration and Production for work at the Barossa project and at the Samurai, Khaleesi, and Mormont developments respectively.
Maersk Drilling awarded one-well contract offshore Egypt
The contract has an estimated duration of 21 days and is expected to commence in March 2020, in direct continuation of the rig’s current contract.
Ampelmann assists SBM Offshore with hook-up and commissioning of Liza Destiny FPSO
An Ampelmann E-type system was mobilised on the Normand Installer vessel, to allow personnel to easily access the Liza Destiny FPSO.
Tower Resources reaches Thali farm-out agreement
The company is to farm-out a 24.5% working interest in its Thali licence in Cameroon to OilLR.
Independent Oil and Gas advancing mapping of Harvey-Redwell area
The Harvey and Redwell licences are in the UK Southern North Sea.
FID made on Van Gogh infill phase 2
The project, offshore Western Australia, will involve the drilling and completing of three new horizontal, dual-lateral production wells and subsea tieback into existing infrastructure.
EMGS receives Namibia survey award
An undisclosed customer will pre-fund a new multi-client CSEM data acquisition in the Walvis Basin using EMGS’s next generation DeepBlue.
Equinor makes North Sea oil discovery
Preliminary estimates place the size of the oil discovery, 11 km southeast of Gudrun, between 1 and 2.7 million m3 of recoverable oil.
BP extends vessel contract with Vroon Offshore Services
VOS will continue its exclusive provision of four vessels to support BP’s North Sea and West of Shetland assets until 2023.
Rystad Energy: coronavirus to delay most of 2020’s FPSO deliveries and postpone US$30 billion of E&P investments
Rystad Energy expects the outbreak of the coronavirus disease known as COVID-19 to cause extensive staffing and supply shortages in China, South Korea and Singapore.