Offshore news

The block in the Northern Carnarvon Basin covers 4815 km2 and lies approximately 100 km from the Australian coast.

Wintershall Dea will retain a 70% participating interest and operatorship in its Potiguar offshore exploration blocks.

The contract is for operations in the Mumbai High, offshore India.

The initial clean-up flow test of the Caley reservoir, in the Dorado field located in the Bedout Basin, offshore Western Australia, was conducted over a 12-hour period and achieved a maximum measured rate of approximately 11 100 bpd and 21 million ft3 of associated gas per day through a 68/64 in. choke.

Qatar Petroleum has taken ownership of the Idd El-Shargi North Dome and Idd El-Shargi South Dome offshore oilfields, following the expiry of the development and production sharing agreements with Occidental Petroleum of Qatar last week.

Senegal’s ambitions to become a major oil and gas producer have been overshadowed by allegations President Macky Sall’s brother was involved in fraud related to two offshore gas blocks being developed by BP.

The vehicle is the first of a new generation of electric observation class ROVs

The contracts are with Saudi Aramco for four jack-ups.

The Maersk Installer will join the Maersk Implementer in the Bay of Campeche, performing general support duties, well stimulation as well as inspection, maintenance and repair for Pemex’s platforms.

Operations involved drilling over 2000 m and acquiring more than 1400 high quality samples and over 900 m of seismic PCPT data.