Offshore news

Deep Sea Mooring (DSM), a Vryhof company, has commenced operations with the newly awarded contract to provide pre-lay mooring products and services to the Deepsea Bergen semisubmersible drilling rig on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

The awarded licences include four operatorships and production opportunities in Norway and the UK.

The contracts have been awarded by the Azerbaijan International Oil Company for Azeri Central East Project.

BiSN, a producer of metal-to-metal downhole sealing solutions, has been awarded significant investment by the Aberdeen-based Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC).

Designed specifically for scenarios where direct vertical access to a well head is not viable, the new Offset Installation Equipment (OIE) enables capping or related equipment to be installed at a safe distance from an incident.

The contract has been awarded to Alcatel Submarine Networks for permanent reservoir monitoring (PRM) on the Johan Sverdrup field.

The decision authorises the construction of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, the first new manned installation for Shell in the northern North Sea in almost 30 years.

The two companies have completed the transfer of rights in Lapa and Iara concessions.

The work will be performed with the subsea vessel Havila Subsea from early February onwards.

The consideration for the transactions amounts to US$1.95 billion, including closing adjustments.