Offshore news

Services to be provided will include data acquisition utilising remote operated vehicle (ROV)-deployed autonomous nodal recording technology in water depths up to 60 m.

Santos will operate the new permit, WA-541-P, in the Northern Carnarvon Basin which lies to the west of the recent Dorado, Roc and Phoenix South hydrocarbon discoveries in the Bedout Sub-basin.

The well was delivered to ADNOC Drilling’s client, ADNOC Offshore – also a subsidiary of ADNOC.

The contract is the largest in Global E&C's history.

Vår Energi will become the second largest E&P company on the Norwegian Continental Shelf after Equinor, with total reserves and resources of about 1900 million boe.

The oilfield procurement firm has been awarded its first contract with Petrofac in the UK as well as two major contracts with Spirit Energy and BP.

The contracts are to support Total E&P South Africa's operations in Block 11B/12B and the drilling programme is expected to take up to 280 days.

As CT scanning provides a non-intrusive inspection method, all assets will remain operational throughout each project.

The agreement entails using the Weatherford Magnus® rotary steerable system in both re-entry wells and new wells.

The contract covers an area of 1600km2 for 3D seismic with associated 2D work to be executed over a 1.5-month period from end 3Q19 for the undisclosed client.