Offshore news

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.

Byron has closed the previously announced acquisition of the South Marsh Island 58 (‘SM58’) lease block including the SM58 #E1 producing wellbore and the SM69 E platform and flowlines.

Each contract is for engineering studies and includes an option for Woodside to proceed to the execute phase with an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract.

Fabienne Ellington has joined the manufacturer of Thermoplastic Composite Pipeline (TCP), Airborne Oil & Gas, as its first vice president Asia and Middle East.

Political and economic instability may affect Lebanon’s second offshore licensing round, according to GlobalData.

Magma sought to further improve the thermal insulation properties of m-pipe in order to maintain flow temperature for a number of current projects. Shawcor’s Thermotite® ULTRA™ was identified as having the required thermal insulation to achieve this.

The system, Sonardyne’s wide-area Sentry Integrity Monitoring Sonar (IMS), has been deployed on the seafloor at more than 2000 m (6500 ft) water depth.