Offshore news

National Oil Corporation (NOC) and Eni announce that Mellitah Oil & Gas, Eni and NOC joint venture company (50/50), has started production from the first well of the offshore Bahr Essalam Phase 2 project.

The topside and hull of Appomattox, Shell's largest floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico, were integrated at Kiewit Offshore Services (KOS), Ingleside, Texas prior to installation.

Fairfield Geotechnologies has specifically designed the Z100 nodal system to allow safe and easy 4C data acquisition in transition zones.

Nexans will provide a total of 27 km of complex umbilicals with power, fibre-optic and hydraulic elements for the next development phase of the most prolific oil and gas field on the Norwegian continental shelf.

First local Jack Up rig to be used for natural gas drilling campaign.

The agreement covers all OKEA fields in the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Otto Energy Limited provides the following update on field production and specifically well performance of the SM 71 F2 well at its South Marsh Island 71 project in the Gulf of Mexico.

CNOOC Limited has announced that its parent company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), has signed a production sharing contract (PSC) with Roc Oil (Bohai) Company (Roc Oil) and Smart Oil Investment Ltd. (Smart Oil) for Weizhou 10-3W oilfield and Block 22/04 (contract area) in the South China Sea.

Equinor is to acquire Barra Energia’s 10% interest in the BM-S-8 licence in Brazil’s Santos basin.

The DAV MX™ CircSub is a dart activated downhole bypass tool from Churchill Drilling Tools.