Offshore news

The company has announced that it has been awarded contracts to perform front end engineering and design (FEED) for a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) for the Whiptail development project in Guyana.

Kosmos Energy has announced an oil discovery in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico at the Tiberius exploration well. Kosmos is operator of the well and has a 33.34% working interest alongside Occidental and Equinor ASA (both 33.33%).

Depositing cement into a well is key to placing effective environmental barriers as this prevents pollution at the surface and prohibits the emission of harmful methane gasses. This assists the oil and gas market to incorporate more environmentally responsible practices.

Vår Energi has reached an agreement with Petrolia NOCO (Petrolia) to sell its 12.25% stake in the Brage field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Turan Drilling & Engineering, a KCA Deutag and SOCAR AQS Company, has secured a contract extension, with a value of US$300 million, for the provision of offshore drilling operations and maintenance services in Azerbaijan.

The bureau of ocean energy management (BOEM) will publish its updated final notice of sale (FNOS) for Gulf of Mexico Oil and gas lease sale 261 in the Federal Register.

QatarEnergy has been awarded a new exploration block offshore the Arab Republic of Egypt as part of the 2022 EGAS International bid round.

Expro has announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of offshore services provider PRT Offshore.

Petrofac has been awarded a three-year contract extension in support of Repsol Sinopec Resources UK’s North Sea operations worth more than US$100 million.

The company has announced that drilling has commenced on the Ofelia appraisal well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.