Offshore news

The contract extension is for the ultra-harsh environment, low-emission jack-up rig Maersk Integrator, which will move to the Ivar Aasen field offshore Norway to drill two wells.

The handover of the Brae Area in the North Sea is expected to be completed in the second half of the year.

The consent applies to the use of the Island Wellserver well intervention facility for light well intervention on fields in the North Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea.

Centrica Storage has engaged Servelec Controls to help prepare Easington Terminal to process gas from the Tolmount field in the Southern North Sea.

Petrobras holds 100% interest in both concessions, with the exception of exploratory block BM-ES-23, in Golfinho, where it owns 65%.

The project, which reinstated a 25-t riser pull-in winch and three 200-t anchor chain winches, is estimated to have contributed to extending the working life of the FPSO by a further 10 years.

Eni and Total won operator rights to blocks 28 and 29 respectively in the offshore Namibe basin, while Angola’s state oil company Sonangol and Equinor and BP were awarded smaller stakes.

ION is reimaging 22 000 km2 of data over the country’s deepwater blocks to create a contiguous volume for a holistic exploration perspective of the margin.

The extension is for the purpose of completing the NJOM-3 well currently in process on the Njonji structure.

The jack-up rig is built to Keppel’s proprietary KFELS B Class design and is the fifth of eleven jack-up rigs that Borr Drilling has ordered from Keppel.