Offshore news

DNV GL has won a major contract to provide independent verification services for the Maersk Oil redevelopment of the Tyra Field, offshore Denmark.

Apache North Sea has awarded Expro a US$10million well services contract extension.

A southern North Sea operator has awarded Claxton a combined services contract to riglessly casing cut and recover a total of seven wells.

Rosneft is performing the drilling of the northernmost exploratory well on the Eastern Arctic shelf following a comprehensive geological study.

Well 7325/4-1 is in the Hoop area in the Barents Sea, around 275 km from Nordkapp and 200 km from Bjørnøya (Bear Island).

Sparrows Group and INNOVO have deployed a new electric drive 700 Te multi-reel drive system for the first time. Sparrows was hired by a global energy services provider to deliver the system and personnel for an umbilical laying operation off the coast of Trinidad.

NES Sure Flow has invested in a new office in Midland, Texas.

Aaron Johnson & Ken Wunch, Dow Energy & Water Solutions, explore approaches to sustainable water management in oil and gas operations.

The well is to be drilled in a prospect named Carmen in block 6507/8 at Haltenbanken. The site is 222 km west of Brønnøysund in Nordland county and 10 km north-east of Heidrun.

Maersk Invincible is being supplied with electricity through the Valhall field. It is probably the first time ever a drilling rig is being powered fully from shore.