Offshore news

The company has been awarded a master contract to support the delivery of a subsea compression system for the Chevron Australia-operated Jansz-Io field offshore Australia.

The company signed a deal with VARD shipyard in Norway to purchase the vessel in late 2018. The vessel is currently undergoing an operational readiness programme and will begin work in the first half of 2019.

The company entered into an agreement with Eni to acquire a 25.5% participating interest in block A5A, located in the Angoche basin, offshore the Republic of Mozambique.

The companies have announced that they have been awarded subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) and subsea production system (SPS) equipment contracts by BP for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project, located offshore Mauritania and Senegal.

The company has announced that Petrobras awarded two of the Company’s ultra-deepwater drillships, the Ocean Rig Corcovado and Ocean Rig Mykonos, with a 629-day contract and 550-day contract, respectively.

The company has entered into an agreement to acquire 70% of the Maromba field offshore Brazil for a total acquisition cost of US$90 million from Petrobras.

Empyrean had announced that the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in Indonesia has approved the plan of development (POD) for the Mako Gas Field at the Duyung PSC in Indonesia.

The Colter well (98/11a-6) was drilled as a vertical well with the Ensco-72 jack-up rig and reached a total depth of 1870 m MD in the Sherwood Sandstone.

The result is in line with PTTEP’s expectation and will be incorporated into development planning of Cash-Maple field which contains 3.5 trillion ft3 of resources.

BP and Enpro Subsea have announces the execution of a global frame agreement aimed at providing an enhanced subsea architecture and smart standardisation using Enpro’s patented Flow Access Module (FAM) technology.