Offshore news

The bid round, scheduled to close on September 28, offers four blocks in Brazil’s pre-salt area, but three of these were already offered in previous rounds and received no bids.

Trinidad Drilling Ltd. (Trinidad or the Company) has announced an award in Kuwait for two Trinidad Drilling International (TDI) joint venture rigs on a five-year contract. 

The Fogelberg discovery has now been successfully appraised confirming sufficient well productivity and reservoir connectivity capable of delivering commercial rates from the planned horizontal gas producers.

Global integrated subsea services business, Kreuz Subsea, has appointed Jerry Starling as director of diving and ROV operations.

Seabed Geosolutions has been awarded a series of 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic monitoring surveys over multiple oil and gas fields in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Nexans has been awarded a major contract to provide complex umbilicals with power, fibre-optic and hydraulic elements for the next stage of the multi-phased Snøhvit development.

AKOFS, a company owned by Akastor ASA, was recently awarded a five year light well intervention (LWI) services contract on the Norwegian continental shelf with Equinor.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor Energy AS a drilling permit for wells 6608/10-18, 6608/10-18 A and 6608/10-18 B, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.

Serica Energy plc has announced the submission of a Field Development Plan (FDP) for the Columbus Development.

Subsea 7 has announced the award of a substantial contract by Total E&P Angola for the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of the subsea flowlines and umbilicals for the Zinia Phase 2 project, 150 km offshore Angola in water depths from 800 to 1000 m.