Offshore news

Tekmar Energy Limited was named company of the year at Subsea UK’s annual awards last night while Richard Marsh was recognised for his outstanding contribution to the industry.

Enpro Subsea will support Tullow Oil’s plans in the Jubilee and TEN fields in Ghana.

The four-year contract is valued at about NOK 800 million and includes an option for a one year extension. 

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-29 S, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.

Bibby Offshore has been awarded the contract with a consortium of companies including The Port of Cromarty Firth. The scope of the contract includes the subsea infrastructure associated with the Osprey and Merlin subsea fields and other infrastructure tied back to the Dunlin Alpha Platform.

Effective immediately, the contract is for two years with three one-year extension options, and includes the provision of rigging and scaffolding services on the facility, currently operating in the Pierce field.

Phase 1 of the Johan Sverdrup project continues to progress according to plan and is now close to 70% complete.

Over US$54 billion will be spent on Brazil’s upstream oil & gas capital expenditure to 2020, says GlobalData.

Benthic, a global geosciences company, has secured a contract for an offshore geotechnical investigation in the proposed Azeri Central East platform location in the Caspian.

Three production wells are currently completed, and production is expected to ramp up through 2018.