Offshore news

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.

The system has been designed to undertake a wide range of thickness measurement applications and is able to ascertain precise measurements on both flat and curved surfaces.

The contract was awarded by SOFEC, Inc. (SOFEC) for the design and supply of an Anchor Leg Monitoring System (ALMS) to monitor the integrity of the mooring lines on Maersk Oil’s upcoming Culzean FSO Ailsa.

It covers the execution of the subsea pipeline connection for the new production platform in Peregrino Phase II Project, located in Campos Basin. This fixed platform will be connected by the in-field lines to the existing platform.

The inaugural TopSeis survey was commissioned by Lundin Norway AS over the Loppa High in the Barents Sea and is designed to better image a complex carbonate reservoir located at depths of between 400 to 2000 m below the seabed.

Lloyd’s Register’s well management expertise is being used by Ecopetrol Costa Afuera S.A.S. (ECAS) of Ecopetrol, for offshore exploration drilling operations in Colombia.

Bibby Offshore, a leading subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, has successfully completed three further contracts from global oil and gas operator, Apache North Sea.