Offshore news
PetroData and TGS announce multibeam and seafloor sampling project in Nigeria
The study will cover an area of approximately 80 000 km2 of the offshore Niger Delta and will incorporate around 150 cores from the seabed.
Commercial oil production begins at Layang field offshore Malaysia
The production of oil from Layang is estimated at approximately 3000 bpd, and an estimated 10 000 boe/d with natural gas combined.
Serica Energy awarded UKCS licence
The award contains the HPHT North Eigg and South Eigg prospects. The primary prospect is North Eigg which is estimated to contain 360 billion ft3 (P50) and potentially over 1 trillion ft3 (P10) of recoverable gas.
TGS completes Multibeam and Coring programme in Campos and Santos Basins
The study, known as a SeepHunter campaign, includes the results of 342 conventional cores and 29 jumbo piston cores and heat probes.
Shearwater GeoServices awarded offshore India campaign by ONGC
The survey covers 1600 km2 of 3D and 800 km of 2D data in a deepwater area of the Bay of Bengal.
Odfjell Drilling awarded platform drilling contract by ConocoPhillips
The contract work includes drilling operations, work-over campaigns, P&A activities and all preventative and corrective maintenance of ConocoPhillips’ drilling facilities on three offshore platforms in the Greater Ekofisk Area.
Australia's offshore regulator gives second of four approvals for Equinor exploration project
The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority has accepted Equinor’s environment plan for exploratory petroleum drilling in the Great Australian Bight.
Magma Global to provide subsea jumpers for Gulf of Mexico flowline intervention
Magma Global has been selected by C-Innovation to supply m-pipe® thermoplastic composite subsea jumpers for flowline intervention in the Gulf of Mexico.
Repsol awards Shearwater GeoServices hybrid node-streamer seismic survey in Malaysia
The project will cover approximately 1000 km2 of ocean bottom and towed streamer seismic on Repsol’s operated block offshore Peninsular Malaysia.
Bilfinger supports ONEgas to decomplex North Sea gas platform
ONEgas is decomplexing their gas field in the Netherlands Continental Shelf in order to centralise gas processing and switch platforms to unmanned operation.