Offshore news

Following completion of the latest work for i3 Energy, the Borgland Dolphin will go straight to the Knarr field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

The survey will employ one Shearwater vessel and cover approximately 7300 km2 of the highly prospective Malvinas Basin, with operations set to commence in 4Q19 and run until 2Q20.

Esox-1 was drilled in 4609 ft (1405 m) of water and encountered approximately 191 net ft (58 m) of high quality oil bearing Miocene reservoirs.

The project duration is approximately two months and is scheduled to commence in 4Q19.

Findings from OGUK’s Health and Safety Report 2019 reveal that offshore helicopter operations were conducted without an accident last year, and the fatal accident rate per 100 000 flying hours dropped to zero for the first time since 2001, despite flying hours increasing by 12% to 77 286 in 2018.

The order is booked into Cargotec’s third quarter of 2019 order intake and delivery will take place during 2020.

The Andaman II PSC is an exploration block over the North Sumatra Basin covering an area of 7400 km2.

Orca-1 is the third-largest discovery made so far this year, and the largest deepwater find.

First gas from a new well at Spirit Energy’s Chiswick field in the Southern North Sea was achieved in July 2019 and has added up to an additional 25 million ft3/d of gas to the field.

Lundin Norway is the operator of the Edvard Grieg platform with a 65% working interest and the partners are OMV Norge and Wintershall DEA with 20 and 15% working interests respectively.