Offshore news

Statoil and partners OMV and Petoro have made a small gas discovery in the Gemini North well, northeast of the Wisting discovery in the Barents Sea. The well also proved oil.

PETRONAS’ subsidiary PC Carigali Mexico Operations, S.A. de C.V., has been awarded shallow water Block 6 in the Gulf of Mexico’s Salina Basin.

Expro has been awarded a substantial contract from global oil and gas company Maersk Oil for the provision of subsea and well test services on two offshore units in the North Sea.

ION Geophysical Corporation has announced a new 3D multi-client broadband reimaging programme offshore Brazil.

Centrica North Sea Limited (Centrica) has awarded HydraWell a three-year frame contract to provide plug & abandonment (P&A) technology and services for the operator’s “A Fields” in the southern part of the North Sea.

Last week the jacket for the Johan Sverdrup riser platform was installed by Thialf crane vessel owned by Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC). Weighing a good 26 000 t the jacket is the largest on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).

ALE has started building a second Mega Jack 800 jacking system.

Premier Oil has provided a progress update on various drilling operations.

DeepOcean has acquired French company Searov Offshore SAS and has expanded its presence in West Africa.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 7435/12-1, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.