Offshore news

Statoil and partners have made an oil discovery in the Verbier sidetrack well in the outer Moray Firth on the UK Continental Shelf.

Turbot is ExxonMobil’s latest discovery to date in the country, adding to previous discoveries at Liza, Payara, Snoek and Liza Deep. Following completion of the Turbot-1 well, the Stena Carron drillship will move to the Ranger prospect.

OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company, today announced an award by Reliance Industries Ltd of an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for supply of the subsea production system for the R Cluster (Block KG-D6) Project, offshore the east coast of India.

Gardner Denver Petroleum & Industrial Pumps has announced it has officially launched its Parts on Demand programme in the Middle East.

Many Guests were invited to witness the naming of our FSRU as the MOL FSRU Challenger. The MOL FSRU Challenger will provide storage and regasification services to a project in Turkey after delivery during October. Operation is slated to commence within 2017.

The substantial contract was awarded to Subsea Integration Alliance, which is a partnership between Subsea 7 and OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company.

The well will be drilled from the Songa Enabler drilling facility, at position 61°25’20.34? N and 3°49’39.73? E after completing the drilling of wildcat well 7317/9-1 for Statoil Petroleum AS in production licence 718.

The FPSO was completed safely, on time and within budget, and departed the shipyard recently for the Bananal Bay in Brazil.

The company's subsidiary, Lundin Norway AS, completed drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry.

The expanded programme will be approximately 9000 km and is the only modern data available offshore Panama.