Offshore news

The total estimated future costs associated with the delivery and placing the drillships into service would have been approximately US$1.1 billion.

The wellhead installation marks the beginning of Gusar’s contracted work with Gazprom for the first year of an up to five-year jack-up gas exploration drilling programme on the Kara Sea Shelf.

An application of thermography has been to detect wet insulation, which is one of the drivers for corrosion under insulation (CUI) attack.

Warwick West is the third and final well of the 2019 Greater Warwick Area drilling programme on Hurricane's Lincoln and Warwick assets.

Changes in the quality of the crude oil being pumped had impacted pump reliability in the field, located offshore Abu Dhabi.

The jack-up rig Asian Endeavour-1 is now en-route to the first well in Empyrean's drilling campaign in the West Natuna Basin.

The UK-focused company achieved first oil from the Lancaster field in June this year.

A key focus for the period ended was ongoing discussions with the Ghanaian authorities about the ratification of the company's signed Petroleum Agreement on the Tano 2A Block offshore Ghana.

The 13/23c-9 pilot well on i3 Energy's 100% owned Liberator Field in the North Sea has now been plugged and abandoned as planned following completion of the vertical seismic profile (VSP) survey and shear wave sonic logging.

Baron Oil and its partners, Corallian Energy and Upland UK, have been formally awarded blocks by the UK Oil & Gas Authority following the UK 31st Offshore Licensing Round.