Offshore news

BMT has secured a new contract with Shell’s platforms offshore Malaysia

BMT has announced a partnership with Sonardyne to deliver its ‘Riser Monitoring System’ to Subsea 7

Halliburton Company has released Flex™ Managed Pressure Drilling System (MPD), a scalable and mobile technology that can be configured to address specific operator challenges and improve rig efficiency.

The industry body said that the revisions to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Well Control Rule promote safe offshore operations.

An Ampelmann A-type system has been mobilised on the Harvey Blue Sea vessel, owned by Harvey Gulf, and will operate for 120 days.

The two companies' joint venture covers two shallow water offshore Petroleum Prospecting Licenses in Guyana, the Corentyne and Demerara blocks.

New awards and escalations totalled US$1.1 billion, raising order backlog to US$5.2 billion.

One of the oldest platforms on the Norwegian continental shelf, Statfjord A, operated by Equinor, was originally scheduled to be shut down in 1999.

Under the terms of the agreement, Eni will pursue exploration activities in the offshore area of over 2800 km2, located in the northern territorial waters of the Kingdom of Bahrain, with water depth ranging from 10 up to 70 m.

Contracts for six of the eight rigs were awarded to Gulf Drilling International (GDI), while the contracts for the remaining two rigs were awarded to Northern Offshore Drilling Operations Ltd.